Annotated Bibilography
"Whole Foods Market: Natural and Organic Grocery." Whole Foods Market: Natural and Organic Grocery. Web. 25 Apr. 2012. <http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/>.
Whole Foods website is where we found most of our research. The website offers information on all the meat they carry and also the 5 step rating system. There is a page that talks about their partnership with Global Animal Partnership. There is also information on the farmers where they get their meat from. You can watch videos of the farmers and the farms with the animals living a great life out in the open. We also used Whole Foods core values in our project which can also be found on the website. The website has a blog where they offer helpful cooking and shopping tips along with daily specials and newsletters to consumers about recent “pink slime” episodes where they assure customers their meat is free of it. Whole Foods provides information to consumers about their meat and does so in a very open manner; they do not try to hide any information or “deceive” their customers.
"Whole Foods Butcher." Personal interview. 19 Apr. 2012.
Phil Murdaco was the butcher we interviewed at Whole Foods. He has been there for two years and really enjoys his job. He enjoys helping customers and sells a product he can stand behind. Interviewing him about the meat and the 5 step rating system for all the meat helped us in our understanding of Whole Foods. We were able to confirm thoughts we had and previous research we conducted.
"Global Animal Partnership." Global Animal Partnership. Web. 25 Apr. 2012. <http://www.globalanimalpartnership.org/>.
This website details the rating system of meat that Whole Foods uses. The Global Animal Partnership is partnered with Whole Foods to provide consumers with organic and natural meat free of hormones, antibiotics, and inhumane living conditions. On this website you can find out how many different farms that follow this program are. You can find out why they rate meat the way they do and why they do it. There is information for farmers, consumers, and retailers. We incorporated this website into our project because it was important to tell our audience where the rating system came from.
"Facts: Factory Farming." In Defense of Animals. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.idausa.org/facts/factoryfarmfacts.html>.
This website gives a little history on factory farming and how it started. It talks about the animals inhumane living conditions and how they are treated. It gives you specifics on different animals like pigs, chickens, and cows. It also explains why the animals are fed antibiotics and hormones and how this helped these factory farms to evolve. We used this in our project to give some background on factory farming.
"Whole Foods Market: Natural and Organic Grocery." Whole Foods Market: Natural and Organic Grocery. Web. 25 Apr. 2012. <http://www.wholefoodsmarket.com/>.
Whole Foods website is where we found most of our research. The website offers information on all the meat they carry and also the 5 step rating system. There is a page that talks about their partnership with Global Animal Partnership. There is also information on the farmers where they get their meat from. You can watch videos of the farmers and the farms with the animals living a great life out in the open. We also used Whole Foods core values in our project which can also be found on the website. The website has a blog where they offer helpful cooking and shopping tips along with daily specials and newsletters to consumers about recent “pink slime” episodes where they assure customers their meat is free of it. Whole Foods provides information to consumers about their meat and does so in a very open manner; they do not try to hide any information or “deceive” their customers.
"Whole Foods Butcher." Personal interview. 19 Apr. 2012.
Phil Murdaco was the butcher we interviewed at Whole Foods. He has been there for two years and really enjoys his job. He enjoys helping customers and sells a product he can stand behind. Interviewing him about the meat and the 5 step rating system for all the meat helped us in our understanding of Whole Foods. We were able to confirm thoughts we had and previous research we conducted.
"Global Animal Partnership." Global Animal Partnership. Web. 25 Apr. 2012. <http://www.globalanimalpartnership.org/>.
This website details the rating system of meat that Whole Foods uses. The Global Animal Partnership is partnered with Whole Foods to provide consumers with organic and natural meat free of hormones, antibiotics, and inhumane living conditions. On this website you can find out how many different farms that follow this program are. You can find out why they rate meat the way they do and why they do it. There is information for farmers, consumers, and retailers. We incorporated this website into our project because it was important to tell our audience where the rating system came from.
"Facts: Factory Farming." In Defense of Animals. Web. 30 Apr. 2012. <http://www.idausa.org/facts/factoryfarmfacts.html>.
This website gives a little history on factory farming and how it started. It talks about the animals inhumane living conditions and how they are treated. It gives you specifics on different animals like pigs, chickens, and cows. It also explains why the animals are fed antibiotics and hormones and how this helped these factory farms to evolve. We used this in our project to give some background on factory farming.