{"id":302256,"date":"2011-02-11T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2011-02-11T08:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sdnews.com\/whole-foods-adopts-animal-welfare-rating-system-2\/"},"modified":"2011-02-11T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2011-02-11T08:00:00","slug":"whole-foods-adopts-animal-welfare-rating-system-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/whole-foods-adopts-animal-welfare-rating-system-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Whole Foods adopts animal welfare rating system"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Foods Market Inc. has launched an animal welfare rating system to help the grocer&#8217;s shoppers find out a bit more about where their meat is coming from. The system, designed by the nonprofit Global Animal Partnership, provides information and a ranking for beef, pork and chicken based on how farm animals are raised. Under the system, independent, third-party certifiers audit farms and rate animal welfare practices and conditions using a tiered system. The ratings range from a &#8220;1&#8221; ranking (which would include no crates, cages or crowding) up to a &#8220;5-plus&#8221; ranking (the most animal centered, where animals spend their entire lives on one farm). Whole Foods, which has a La Jolla location at 8825 Villa La Jolla Drive, said more than 1,200 farms and ranches that provide its stores with products have received certification. Shoppers will see color-coded signs and stickers throughout Whole Foods Market meat departments that identify the ratings. Whole Foods already requires that animals sold in its stores be raised on a vegetarian diet without being administered antibiotics or added growth hormones.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Whole Foods Market Inc. has launched an animal welfare rating system to help the grocer&#8217;s shoppers find out a bit more about where their meat is coming from. The system, designed by the nonprofit Global Animal Partnership, provides information and a ranking for beef, pork and chicken based on how farm animals are raised. Under [&hellip;]<\/p>","protected":false},"author":726,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"11560","_seopress_titles_title":"Whole Foods adopts animal welfare rating system","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"jnews_override_counter":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[11560,11551,11593],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-302256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-la-jolla-village-news","category-news","category-no-images"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/726"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=302256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/302256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=302256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=302256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.sdnews.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=302256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}