4 Cow Rating (Excellent) Larger commercial manufacturers or marketers. Buys milk from many different farmers or from a wholesale milk supplier. All the “excellent” brands in this category are highly respected and source their milk from family-scale farms.
"Major organic and natural foods grocery chain Whole Foods, rolled out a new animal welfare rating program. Under the program, every store will have signs that 'tell customers exactly how animals were raised'."
Cocoa not sourced from areas in Western Africa where child slavery is the most pervasive. If they source from Western Africa, they are worker owned cooperatives.
Private Label or store‐brand eggs come from anonymous sources. Research indicates the majority of organic eggs for private labels are produced on industrial farms that house hundreds of thousands of birds and do not grant them meaningful outdoor access.
