AWA In the News
August 2010
- Farm Progress: It all comes down to beef marketing
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Chelsea Clinton wedding features Animal Welfare Approved short ribs
Meat supplier, Grazin’ Angus Acres, was unaware his product was served at exclusive event - The Dairy Show: In the news–Grazin’ Angus Acres short ribs served at Clinton wedding
- Food CEO: Chelsea Clinton’s wedding featured AWA short ribs from Grazin’ Angus Acres
- Slashfood: Could bison’s move to feedlots bring loss of “game meat?”
- Tennessee Titans Online: Witherspoon succeeding both on and off the field
- MLive (Michigan): How Middleville farm earned ‘Animal Welfare Approved’ certification.
- What’s Growin’ On: Good Husbandry Grants proposals sought
- Cattle Network: Animal Welfare Approved announces 2011 Good Husbandry Grants
- Life is Fare: Where to find happy meat
- Motivation and Inspiration for Life: Eating right–common labels on organic meat
- CNYCentral.com: Grass fed cattle for health conscious consumers
- North Bay Business Journal (CA): Weirauch dairy, creamery to launch
- Eating Made Easy: Egg labels and what they mean
- Rodale.com: How egg carton claims relate to salmonella risks
- Quad Cities Times (IA): Q-C area producers tout local egg supply
- FYILiving.com: What kind of eggs should I buy?
- San Francisco Chronicle/SFGate: Egg recall heats up debate over caging chicken
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Responding to egg recall, animal welfare group offers free consulting
July 2010
- The Nourish Network: Beyond beef basics: Grass Fed, Grain Finished and more
- Missoula Independent: Flash in the pan: Terms of confusion
- The Durango Telegraph: Flash in the pan: Terms of confusion
- Kids Enabled: Step up to the plate! Healthier food for healthy brains
- Pork Magazine: AWA commits funds for husbandry grants
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Animal welfare certification group to offer 3rd year of grants
- An Omnivore’s Decision: A+ for AWA
- Your News Now (YNN.com): Fabius farm awarded AWA seal
- The Post-Standard/Syracuse.com: Hoffmann Farm in Fabius receives beef certification award
- WholeFoods Magazine: Greener pastures: Organic and natural meat offer healthy, sustainable choices
- GQ: Eat no evil (featuring AWA Rare Earth Farms)
June 2010
- Tips for Easy Weight Loss: Eating Right: Common labels on organic meat
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Recruits needed to satisfy growing demand for pastured pork
- The Art of Eating (newsstand only): Iowa, pigs, corn, and pasture
- TinyGreenBubble.com: Animal Welfare Approved: Food label of the day
May 2010
- Sustainable Food/Change.org: Taking Meat Out of the Factory
- Livable Future Blog: Taking the Meat We Eat Out of the Factory and Putting it Back on the Farm
- The Carnivore’s Dilemma: The Whistle-Blower–Carole Morison
- Arubula’s Kitchen: The future of farming
- Brookfield Patch (CT): Making hay at Happy Landings
- Brooklyn Feed: The farmer’s market
- Friends Eat.com: Animal Welfare Approved label
- A Thinking Reed.com: What would ethical egg production look like? And how would we get there?
- Examiner.com: Meat and the environment, experts weigh in at panel discussion at Pew Charitable Trust
April 2010
- TakePart.com: Five grades of yolk: The chicken makes the egg
- Examiner.com: Happier Easter eggs: A list of more humanely-farmed brands
- Eat, Drink and Be: Easter tips: Deciphering egg carton labels
- The Carnivore’s Dilemma: One of these things is not like the others
- The Green Market: Easter and the environment
- Inhabitat.com: Eco Labels 101: Green certifications explained
- Huffington Post: David Kirby: White House will not say where it gets its meat
- Salisburypost.com (NC): Earth Day at RCCC
- Farm to Table: Meatless Monday: Broccoli Timbales
- Mother Nature Network: 17 eco-food labels decoded
March 2010
- Civil Eats: Meat your menu
- Huffington Post: David Kirby: 6 Baby steps toward a more sustainable animal diet
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Animal welfare label needs supplies to feed ‘backlog’ of demand from restaurants, retailers
- National Culinary Review: From Pasture to plate: Diners looking for local on the menu need search no further than the many faces of lamb (Reprinted from The National Culinary Review, March 2010, Vol. 34, #3 ©2010 The American Culinary Federation, Inc. All rights reserved.)
- Huffington Post: Jenna Woginrich: I’m going to a sheep butchering party
- The Greenhorns: Animal Welfare Approved!
- Cheap Wine and Cookies: The Easter bunny vs. the chick
- Green Eyes On: Get responsible about your Easter eggs
- Honolulu Advertiser/Kaua’iPeople.com: Work is a family affair at Kunana Dairy
February 2010
- AgriMarketing.com: Animal Welfare Approved announces 2010 good husbandry grants
- Swanson Health Products Daily Tips: The new flexitarian diet
- WMHT From Farm to Table: Egg-ceptionally healthy comfort foods featuring AWA farmer Dan Gibson of Grazin’ Angus Acres
- Honolulu Star-Bulletin: Goats become heroes in Kauai tour
- Rural Intelligence: AgriCulture: The inside story on “Animal Welfare Approved”
- Salisbury (NC) Post: Charcuterie 101: Before sausage
- Market to Mouth blog: Chiptotle sausage with pinto beans
January 2010
- Gather Round the Table: A beef labeling primer
- Vindy.com (Youngstown, OH): USDA guide of definitions helps crack the mystery surrounding egg labels
- Lake Oswego Review: Here’s some help to keep those New Year resolutions
- Raceplan.com: On eating meet
- Simple, Good and Tasty: Grass-fed: somthing to chew on
- Food Renegade: Decoding supermarket beef labels
- The Huffington Post: Meatless Monday–Cracking the egg label code
- Suite 101: Nutrition and animal welfare–how to find humane, healthy eggs
- Baltimore Sun: Stirring interest in organic foods
- Redding (CA).com: Local goats produce award-winning cheese
- Humanitarian News: Antibiotics in farming–has Tyson Foods shot itself in the foot?
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Animal welfare grants focus on mobile housing, humane slaughter
- Tree Hugging Family: How to eat humane
- Edible San Diego: Meat gets local
December 2009
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): New database lists restaurants serving humanely raised meat, dairy
- California Country: Giddy for goat cheese in Shasta County
- Huffington Post: The meat-eaters guide to eating less meat
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Lack of animal welfare label on products at Whole Foods Market stores: Animal Welfare Approved says to check its Web site for which Whole Foods stores carry its certified products
- Whole Food and More blog: Find Grass fed beef and pastured pork in Whole Foods Markets
- Examiner.com: Animal Welfare Approved helps consumers serve animal-friendly meals this holiday season
- Beyond Delicious DC: Where can we find happy eggs?
- Tea Party Patriots: A search for the ethical egg
- Carolina Virginia Farmer: Heirloom breeds succeed today
- AlterNet: Righteous Porkchop-Vegetarian rancher explains how to raise animals the right way and the ills of factory farms
November 2009
- Green Chi Cafe: Animal Welfare Approved
- NRDC’s Simple Steps: Label lookup–poultry and eggs
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Int’l farm animal welfare expert to lead AWA’s new advisory board
- Gather.com: Organic, heritage, sustainable–when talking turkey, does it matter?
- Gigabiting: Cracking the egg code: egg essentials
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Guest Column-Beware of bad science
- Prairie du Chien Courier Press: Area farm earns animal welfare approval seal (Mountain Lane Farms)
- Pastureland Cooperative blog: Beware bad science–pastured dairy and beef can fight global warming
- Edible Piedmont features two AWA farmers: Setting the Standard (Eliza McLean) and Flocking Home (Bob Pope)
- Edible Hawaiian Islands: Animal Welfare Approved Winners
- Honolulu Star Bulletin: On the Move (Three Farms Earn AWA Seal)
- The Atlantic Online: More tips for finding a good turkey
- Portland (OR) Business Journal: Pacific Natural Foods strives to know ingredient sources
- Philly.com: Philly restaurants make the humane league
- The Nibble.com Trends: Humane-certified meat & poultry
- Home Grown: With some chickens, a few dozen sheep and a whole lot of drive, Carla Peterson aims to breathe new life into a family farm
October 2009
- Edible Piedmont (NC): Hungry for Change
- Ideal Bite: Egg You On (Eco Egg Labels)
- Poultry Production News: Group cites loophole in grassfed standard
- Local Fare (WI): Mountain Lane Farms Earns Animal Welfare Approved Seal
- OregonLive.com: Pacific Natural Foods will bear seal of approval for humane treatment of dairy and beef
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Pacific Natural Foods to roll out first products nationwide carrying animal welfare seal
- Asheville, NC Citizen-Times: Farming needs to go back to the future (Op-Ed by Andrew Gunther)
- Raleigh News & Observer: Small farm suits couple
- Saveur.com The Butcher Blog: Free-range information
- Martha Stewart’s Column: Crack the egg-humaneness shell game in the Philadelphia Enquirer and in the Detroit News
- Sustainable Food News (subscription required): Hawaiian farms first to earn animal welfare eco-label
- Morgan Messenger (Berkeley Springs, WV): Meet and greet held for farmers
September 2009
August 2009
- Half Moon Bay Review: Former Coastsiders Win Cheese Honors
- Creative Loafing Atlanta blog: Make Big Difference for the Environment With Little Effort
- Rochester, NY Democrat and Chronicle: Artisan Producers, dairy farms make Finger Lakes a cheese lovers’ destination
July 2009
- Cooking Light: Egg Labels and What They Mean
- New York Magazine Grub Street Blog: Telepan Earns Merit Badge for Switching to Grass-Fed Burger
- The Gotham Palate Blog: Burgers and Beer Sundays at Telepan
- Eco-lifestyle Community: WSPA releases results of Humane Food Survey
- Chico Enterprise Record: Farm earns animal welfare seal
- San Francisco Examiner.com: Pals Take Away Mission Food Grown and Served
- Farm Fresh Foodies: Animal Welfare Approved
- Success Magazine Ltd: The Natural Choice: Mack Brook Farm
June 2009
- Western Producer: Welfare Labels Come to Canada
- Winston-Salem Journal: Raising animals naturally
- Capital Press: How’s your Animal Welfare Approved Burger?
- The Westerner: Hut’s Now Serving Animal Welfare Approved Texas Longhorn Burgers
- Hudson Saratoga Recipes blog: Honey and Chili Glazed Beef Ribs with Creamed Swiss Chard and Potatoes
May 2009
- Civil Eats Blog: Brooklyn Food Conference Takes to the Streets
- Waurika News Democrat and the Duncan Banner: A Healthy Stock
April 2009
- The Village Voice: Under the Toque–Chefs and Food Sellers Band Together to Create Supply Chain
- Progressive Grocer: D’Agostino to Attend New York Food Supply Chain Summit
- Eat Magazine: Partnership Between Animal Welfare Approved and American Grassfed Association Promotes Healthy Farms and Better Meat
- Wichita Falls Times Record News: Texans raise beef cattle the old-fashioned way
- Eat Magazine: Animal Welfare Approved Now Open to Canadian Farms
March 2009
- Martha Stewart Living: Demystifing Egg Cartons
- Lassen County News: Non-lethal predator control program could provide assistance to Lassen County Ranchers
- Atlanta Journal Constitution: An idea to chew on: Grass-fed local beef; Animals have ‘higher level of care,’ cattleman says
January 2009
September 2008
- New York Times: Unscrambling the claims of the boastful egg
- New York Times Well Blog: Unscrambling the egg
