Farm Animal Welfare
Three Rivers Market offers only natural or organic meat and eggs from farms and companies committed to humane farm animal care. Below are some of the certifying organizations whose standards we endorse.
Animal Welfare Approved
Animal Welfare Approved has the most rigorous standards for farm animal welfare currently in use by any United States organization. Its standards have been developed in collaboration with scientists, veterinarians, researchers, and farmers across the globe to maximize practicable, high-welfare farm management. Animal Welfare Approved’s standards incorporate best practice and recent research and have been adopted only after rigorous review. The basic premise of all the standards is that animals must be able to behave naturally and be in a state of physical and psychological well-being.
Animal Welfare Approved requires animals to be raised on pasture or range, prohibits dual production, awards approval only to family farmers, charges no fees to participating farmers, incorporates the most comprehensive standards for high welfare farming
