Self Magazine: Green Special: Shopping Smarter

Get certified-humane poultry and eggs
Rangan smiles when I show her my free-range, hormone-free eggs and chicken. “Free range means animals have the option to go out because the coop door was briefly opened, but they may never have done so,” she tells me.  “And U.S. poultry isn’t allowed to have hormones.”  She suggests I buy organic, certified-humane eggs and poultry.  “Organic means the chickens were fed grains or grass free of industrial pesticides, sewage, animal by-products, radiation, and genetically modified materials.  Certified humane indicates that they had a higher quality of treatment.”