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This guide is for anyone who wants to align with a paleo lifestyle while shopping with more humane animal treatment in mind. Below is a selection of farms and brands from our distinguished Shop With Your Heart Brand List that offer foods aligning with paleo guidelines. Whether you’re already part of the paleo world or just curious about this dietary lifestyle, there’s something on this list for everyone.

Look for the labels! These are the three certifications verifying animal welfare and outdoor access that are recognized by the ASPCA Shop With Your Heart program:

Animal Welfare Approved (AWA)		Global Animal Partnership (GAP) Step 3 and Up		Certified Humane (CH) *must include the words “free-range” or “pasture-raised” on eggs and chicken

Or look for a plant-based alternative, denoted by this icon ! When a product shows the basic GAP label without a number, look for separate language on the package identifying the product’s step level.

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Label Buster! Loosely Defined Labels

The following claims found on food packaging are loosely defined or weakly regulated by the USDA:

• Free-Range: Producers must demonstrate that animals have “access to the outdoors” but size, quality and duration of access to that outdoor space is unregulated, so conditions vary greatly.
• Grass-Fed: This term does not mean animals are reared entirely on pasture. Pasture access during most of growth is required, but feedlots are allowed in final months. Antibiotics and hormones are also allowed.
• Pasture-Raised/Pasture-Grown: While access to pasture is preferable to confined, indoor systems, the term is undefined so conditions vary between farms.

*Please read product ingredients to ensure complete alignment with your dietary goals.

Broths

• Beyond Broth – Immune, Vitality, Yummy Tummy
• White Oak Pastures – beef broth, poultry broth  

Plant-Based Dairy Alternatives 

• Miyoko’s Creamery – mozzarella, cream cheese, butter
• New Barn – almond milk
• So Delicious – unsweetened almond milk

White Meat – Chicken and Turkey

• Applegate – organic chicken hotdogs 
• Bilinski’s – various chicken sausages, meatballs, patties 
• Cooks Venture – pasture-raised chicken
• Farmer Focus – free-range chicken  
• Hip Chick Farms – organic gluten-free chicken breakfast sausages 
• Koch’s Turkey – free-range heirloom turkey 
• Mary’s Free Range Chicken – chicken, turkey   
• White Oak Pastures – chicken, turkey   

Red Meat – Beef and Pork

• Baldwin Beef – beef 
• Brasstown Beef – beef 
• Circle B Ranch – pork  
• Country Natural Beef – ground beef *sold only in Whole Foods 
• Goodnight Brothers – all natural pork products 
• La Quercia – various cured meats 
• Panorama – organic ground beef, steaks, various meat products *sold only in Whole Foods 
• Redger Farms – beef 
• The Naked Pig Meat Co. – pork  
• Thompson Farms – pork 
• White Oak Pastures – beef, pork  

Snacks & Sweets 

• Artisan Tropic – chips  
• Bee Free Granola Treat (contains honey) – granola 
• Eat MUD – dairy-free ice cream sweetened with dates
• Hail Merry – cups, bites, bars, tarts 
• Keep It Real Food Co. – granola, cookies, crackers, bars 
• Nutty Goodness – fruit and nut bites
• OHi – superfood bars
• Ona Foods (contains honey) – bars, cookies
• Paleo Prime – cookies, brownies
• Paleo Treats – Bandito, Cacao Now!, Mustang Bar (contains honey) 
• Pan’s Mushroom Jerky – jerky 
• Rickaroons Energy Bars – bars  
• Shanti Bar – bars
• Snackin’ Free – bars, brownies, cookies, muffins
• This Pie Is Nuts – various pies
• Thunderbird – fruit, nut, seed and spice bars
• You Are Loved – bites, cupcakes, truffles, tarts

Eggs

• Aldi – Goldhen free-range eggs 
• Belcampo – pasture-raised eggs 
• Blue Sky Family Farms – pasture-raised eggs; free-range eggs 
• Carol’s Eggs – organic seasonally pasture-raised eggs 
• Central Market – organic pasture-raised eggs 
• Contented Hen – free-range eggs 
• Farmer’s Hen House – free-range eggs 
• Great Day – free-range brown eggs 
• Natural Grocers – pasture-raised rggs 
• Nature’s Yoke – free-range eggs 
• Nellie’s – free-range eggs 
• Nest Fresh – organic free-range brown eggs, pasture-raised brown eggs 
• New Seasons – organic free-range brown eggs 
• Pete and Gerry’s – organic and free-range eggs 
• Vital Farms – organic pasture-raised brown eggs 
• White Oak Pastures – pasture-raised eggs 
• Wilcox Farms – free-range large white eggs 

You can find many more paleo-friendly meat and eggs closer to home—visit our Certified Farms By State list to find farms near you.

For a full list of certified meat, egg and dairy brands as well as plant-based alternatives that you can find in stores and online, please visit the full Shop With Your Heart brands list.

Check out our Committed Companies page for a list of companies who have worked with the ASPCA to improve animal welfare in their supply chains. You’ll find brands like Serenity Kids and Kunoa Cattle Company, as well as home delivery companies Butcher Box, Grass Roots Farmers’ Cooperative, Porter Road and Territory—all making an effort for animals!

If you’re having trouble finding welfare-certified or plant-based alternatives, let your local grocery store know you want them to stock more humane products!

*Shopping at Whole Foods Market
Almost all of the beef, chicken, pork and turkey sold in Whole Foods Market stores are Global Animal Partnership certified and labeled. To ensure that the product came from animals that had access to the outdoors, we advise only buying products bearing the GAP (Step 3-5+) logo. Some brands that bear the GAP label at Whole Foods Market will appear in other stores without the logo. That may be a packaging choice or it may mean that those animals were not raised to the GAP standards.