Introducing Humane Heartland™American Humane Association’s Humane HeartlandTM farm animal welfare program provides ongoing outreach to farmers in the implementation of humane practices for animals by way of the American Humane Certified® program and rigorous, science-based standards.
Humane Heartland also provides humane care training for workers, review of equipment that improves animal welfare, humane education, and thought leadership in animal welfare and food issues.
Learn more about Humane Heartland's farm animal program.
Behind the LabelEver since American Humane Association created the first third-party farm animal welfare certification program in the United States, awareness of animal welfare and its link to the quality and safety of food has grown steadily.
For over 130 years, American Humane Association has been at the forefront of virtually every major policy movement and shift in cultural attitudes aimed at improving the lives of children and animals.
Honoring the BondSince 1877, American Humane Association has been at the forefront of almost every major advancement in protecting children, pets and farm animals from cruelty, abuse and neglect.
Humane Heartland educates consumers on the connection of farm animal welfare to healthy, safe and nutritious food. We also support farm and ranch families in their stewardship of their animals and sustainable practices for our communities.
Learn more about our science-based standards.
Providing Consumer ChoicesAmerican Humane Association believes there should be humane choices for farmers, retailers and consumers. Farm animal welfare is a standard of care everyone can support.
We continue to look for new humane solutions in production systems that provide welfare for animals as well as safe and affordable food choices for consumers.
Animal welfare should be available and affordable to all people. Learn more about how our standards benefit the consumer.
The JS West family farms started small in the late 1940's and have grown and changed, upgrading hen housing and equipment with the focus on the health & welfare of their hens.
From its humble beginnings as a small, single farm in California’s Central Valley, Foster Farms has grown into the most trusted brand of poultry in the Western United States. Since 1939, West Coast families have depended on family-owned and operated Foster Farms for premium quality fresh chicken products.
Burnbrae Farms is a family owned and operated company that has been producing eggs for over 50 years.
For Springer Mountain Farms, being certified by American Humane has been good for its chickens, its business and its customers.
Abbotsford Farms has created a network of nature-conscious farms (many of them being small family farms) devoted to providing high quality organic and cage free eggs.
Pastry Smart LLC is a San Francisco Bay Area Company based in the heart of Silicon Valley. It specializes in the development and production of organic par-baked and frozen pastries, breads and confectionery products using the finest natural, organic ingredients. Read about Pastry Smart in a local San Mateo, CA newspaper.
Farmers Harvest Organic eggs is a label of CCF Brands of Arkansas, a family owned business since 1997 that sells their products across the country.
Family owned since 1913, Kleinpeter Farms provides a variety of dairy products from a hormone-free a herd of more than 700 cows on a 1,500 acre farm in Montpelier, La.
Leidy’s is a small, family-owned company located in southeastern Pennsylvania, with a heritage of over 100 years of providing excellent pork products to consumers.
In an industry steeped in tradition, Clover Stornetta has frequently ignored convention and taken our marching orders directly from the consumer.
Morning Fresh Farms produces and markets eggs under a variety of brands. A significant portion of their business is packed in private label brands for both the retail and foodservice customer in the Colorado market area.
Dixie Egg Company operates a production, warehouse and distribution network that services Florida, Southern Georgia and a variety of other locations.
Rose Acre Farms has been involved in farming for over 125 years, and has been producing Rose Acre brand eggs since the 1930's with a focus on quality, value and freshness.
For more than 50 years, Moark has been expanding as a rich and diverse progressive egg company.
NestFresh strives to provide you and your family with a more sustainable, humane alternative to conventional eggs, which are produced in caged facilities.
Kreher’s Farm Fresh Eggs is a third generation family owned and operated farm that has been in business since 1924.
Farmers’ Hen House is a family owned egg company located in Kalona, IA that produces and markets cage free and free-range organic eggs.
Caveny Farm is a small family farm in Central Illinois which has raised heritage poultry for over ten years. Pastured, naturally raised Bourbon Red heritage turkeys are our mainstay.
Egg Innovations believes that chickens under their care should never be exposed to or fed drugs, hormones, sub-theraputic antibiotics or animal by-products for the purpose of stimulating productivity or reducing cost.
Radlo Foods has been family owned and operated for over 90 years. Our products still come from our sustainable American family farms.
Established in 1929, Weaver Brothers is a third-generation-led family farm operation still owned and managed by the founding family with the fourth generation of the family now working in Versailles, Ohio.
Since 1958, four generations of the Herbruck family have been producing eggs for major retailers and their local community by delivering eggs on their own trucks.
Just Bare is a brand of premium, all-natural chicken that offers no antibiotics, no added hormones, no animal byproducts, no unwanted additives, and traceability to the family farm where raised.
Hellmann's® Light Mayonnaise, known as Best Foods® West of the Rockies, is America's favorite mayonnaise brand, and uses only cage-free eggs in its ingredients which are provided by producers certified by American Humane Association.
Eight family dairy farms in Wisconsin make up the Red Barn Family Farms brand, which was founded in 2008.
Cal-Maine Foods is one of the largest producers and marketers of value-added specialty shell eggs in the United States including our cage free eggs.
Frank Sauder started his door-to-door egg business in the 1930's during the Depression Era. Today Sauder is run by the third generation of Sauders to operate their egg business.
Eggland's Best is proud to have many of our franchised producers, along with some of their Eggland's Best branded products, involved in the American Humane certification program.
Since 1955 Valley Fresh Foods Inc. has been delivering fresh eggs daily, from our family owned farms in Central California and the Pacific Northwest.
For more than 85 years, the Rumiano family has placed as much importance on treating its cows humanely as producing its signature products.
Back in 1973, two self-proclaimed hippies in Ithaca, New York embraced the idea of “homesteading” and bought a Jersey cow to provide milk for their family.
Braswell Foods is a family-owned company producing and marketing quality feed and egg products for American families and businesses for over 40 years.
Heartland Meats is family owned and operated cattle operation, as well as a century-old grain farm in rural Mendota, Illinois.
Learn from the experts why choosing humanely raised foods is right for you and your family, then learn the joy of cooking those meals at home.
The American Humane Certified™ program is a voluntary third party animal welfare audit program that is rapidly setting the standards for the way that food animals are raised in the U.S.
The American Humane Certified™ program for farm animals endorsed in June 2010 the use of enriched colony housing for laying hens as a humane housing solution, in addition to cage-free/aviary housing and free range.
The decision by the American Humane Association’s Scientific Advisory Committee weighed existing research on hen welfare in enriched colony housing as well as measured outcomes from the use of this housing in Europe.
Currently, federal legislation is pending that would make enriched colony housing systems the egg production standard in the United States.
Family-owned Foster Farms today announced that its fresh chicken products have earned humane certification from American Humane Association. The American Humane Certified™ (AHC) program, developed in 2000, is the nation’s first independent, third-party humane certification program for farm animals.
