The Co-op Food Stores of New Hampshire and Vermont

added 02/06/08

by Mary Saucier Choate, M.S., R.D., L.D.

Because many Co-op customers wish to purchase meat and poultry products from animals raised without added hormones, antibiotics, and feed containing animal byproducts, the Co-op now offers the “Co-op Natural” label on certain qualifying products. To qualify, suppliers must provide verification that their meat or poultry comes from animals which were:

• never given antibiotics;
• never given hormones;
• fed only 100 percent vegetable feed.

Co-op Perishables Merchandiser Tony White has obtained verification from each supplier as noted below.

Co-op Natural Suppliers

Beef
Wolfe’s Neck Farm (letter)
Bowman Road Farm, certified organic (third-party certified)
Maple Lane Farm, certified organic (third-party certified)

Pork
DuBreton Pork from Canada (web site states protocol)

Chicken
Murray’s Chicken (web site states protocol)
Misty Knoll Chicken (letter)
Bell & Evans Chicken Products (web site states protocol)
Amish Select (brochure)

Turkey
Misty Knoll Chicken (letter)
Stonewood Farm (letter)

Other
Yankee Farmers Market Buffalo (letter)
Casual Gourmet Sausage (brochure)