organic meat

where to find organic and hormone-free meat

Your local store may not have a good selection of organic or hormone-free meat. But thanks to the Internet, they are widely available. Here are some of the best places on the Web to shop for organic meat.

United States

Niman Ranch
The family farmers of Niman Ranch raise livestock traditionally, humanely, and sustainably. Beef, pork, and lamb.

Blackwing Quality Meats
Wholesale supplier, now selling direct to the public. Red meats, poultry, even kosher meats.

Damar Farms
Angus meats produced on a family farm. All beef are born and raised on the farm in west central Wisconsin using organic and sustainable farming practices.

Genessee Valley Organic Beef
All land and animals follow strict guidelines developed by the USDA National Organic Program. Land remains in its natural state without the use of herbicides, pesticides, or synthetic fertilizers. Animals are never given antibiotics, growth hormones, steroids, or animal by-products.

The Healthy Carnivore
No hormones. No antibiotics. No animal by-products. Simply nutritious, delicious, ethically raised beef, pork, lamb and chicken.

Homestead Healthy Foods
Raised in pastures on natural forage and certified organic by the USDA. Both are free of any chemical residue. They use no growth hormones, no antibiotics, no pesticides, and no parasiticides. No animal by-products are ever used in their production and livestock are never confined in feed lots. Currently they only have beef available, but generally offer chicken as well.

Lasater Grasslands Beef
Cattle are finished on grass; they spend their entire lives grazing in open pastures and are never confined in feedlots and fed grain. They are not given growth hormones, are not fed low-level antibiotics and are not treated with pesticides.

The Meat Shop of Tacoma
For people who believe that organically produced food free from chemicals is essential to good health, The Meat Shop of Tacoma offers an assortment of high quality certified organic meat and poultry that combines good taste with good nutrition. Their organic beef are pastured year round and fed certified organic grain to make high quality meat without excessive fat.

Natural Acres
Certified organic since 1999. The ultimate goal of Natural Acres is to provide people with the best quality organic food, food supplements and personal care products available at a reasonable price.

Organic Valley
Organic beef, pork, and poultry. Produced by family farmers in harmony with nature without antibiotics, synthetic hormones or pesticides. Animals are raised humanely and given certified organic feed, never any animal by-products.

SteakBurger
Boneless steak, completely deboned by hand. They take the best cuts of organic, grass=fed beef, debone it, and grind it together to make a real steak burger.

Wholesome Harvest
Wholesome Harvest is a coalition of over 40 concerned small family farms. They own their own brand of meats, including chicken, beef, pork, lamb, duck, goose and turkey. Because they are the producers and not the packing houses, they know and control the traceability of their product and have the freedom to choose the processors with the best practices both for social responsibility and food safety.

United Kingdom

Atholl Glens
Beef and lamb from Scotland.The cattle & sheep are reared in open fields. They eat mineral rich grass & are looked after by highly experienced stockmen who really care about the welfare of their animals.

Cambrian Organics
A variety of meat from Welsh farms, including a monthly box scheme. Meat comes from a group of organic farmers, using skilled local butchers and traditional methods of production.

Eversfield Manor
An 850 acre organic farm nestling deep in the heart of the West Devon countryside. Beef, lamb, venison, pork, chickens, even partridges, pheasants, and wild duck.

Graig Farm Organics
All meat and dairy produce is produced in the UK - as locally to Graig Farm (in the Heart of Wales) as possible. Every pack of meat is labelled with traceablity information back to the farm, the farmer and breed of animal. The Producer Group includes some 200 organic farmers across Wales and the Borders. They also support the FairTrade system.

Helen Browning's Organics
Simple good food produced naturally with integrity, style and good taste

Higher Hacknell
Organic beef, lamb, pork, poultry, even sausages and burgers. Winner of all kinds of awards. Located in the UK.

Jamesfield Farm
Offering a next day home mail order delivery service of organic meat (and Free Range meat) to most areas of the mainland UK. Choose from Organic Beef , Organic Lamb, Organic Sausages & Burgers, Organic Pork & Bacon from the Organic meat collection as well as Free Range Poultry.

Northumbrian Quality Meats
Award winners for both beef and lamb, shipping throughout the mainland UK. The farm of 750 acres of mainly high hill land, is managed on a traditional, extensive basis - in very much the same manner it would have been centuries ago.

Orkney Organic
A family-run business operating in Kirkwall in the islands of Orkney off the north coast of Scotland. Their goal is to produce the tastiest beef and lamb possible and sell it by mail order right across the UK, ensuring the ultimate in health and traceability. The herd of organic Aberdeen AngusX beef and Orkney organic lamb is grass-fed, and they also now have rare-breed outdoor pigs.

Save the Bacon
A wide variety of game, rare breed meats and fish from British farms.

Well Hung Meat Company
Good for you, good for the environment, and delivered to your door in the UK. Winner Organic Industry Awards 2006 Best delivery/internet service.