Food Security: Pastured Chickens Raised on Wisconsin Pastures Now Available for BULK Purchase at 50% Discount for a Limited Time!

My online store, Healthy Traditions, started our Grass-fed Traditions product line 20 years ago, featuring grass-fed meats and pastured poultry. We were one of the first companies in the U.S. to start shipping such high quality meats and poultry (or any foods for that matter) direct to the consumer through our online store on the Internet, directly to consumers' homes, using the power of the Internet to distribute these products nationwide. Not even Amazon.com was shipping food back then in their early days. 20 years later now, the Internet is now no longer reliable, and subject to millions of cyberattacks every day. Therefore, to help our customers achieve some food security in these current turbulent times, we are doing something this Fall that we have never done before. We are offering bulk purchases of our Grass-fed Traditions products that can be stored in freezers so that one can keep a steady inventory of high quality foods in their own homes, in the event of an Internet or power grid failure. So for a limited time we are offering our customers the opportunity to purchase our pastured chickens raised on Wisconsin pastures outdoors on a GMO-free feed, unvaccinated, and no soy or corn. Purchasing in bulk will save you about 50% off the cost of ordering just 3 or 4 birds at a time. If you want healthy REAL food in your food preparation plans in case it becomes scarce, instead of just packaged commodity food like MREs that you probably don't eat regularly anyway, and would make you even sicker in a national emergency situation, invest in some freezers and a generator and bulk up on healthy non-contaminated chicken! Frozen meats almost never go bad if kept frozen, and only diminish in quality after many years. I have 5-year-old Grass-fed Traditions whole chickens in my own freezer that I stored during COVID, and it still tastes as good today as when I stored it.

USDA Wants to Eliminate Poultry Inspectors for Factory Birds

Besides the obvious food safety concerns expressed by Ken Ward, a former USDA poultry inspector, there is quite possibly a far greater risk here in this new USDA plan to privatize poultry inspection. This rule change may exclude small pastured poultry producers from being able to comply and market their products, thereby eliminating your option to buy chickens raised outdoors on pasture.

Is the FDA Trying to Destroy the Pastured Egg Industry?

Recent guidance from the FDA will place an impossible burden on farmers who raise true free-range chickens. The FDA guidance suggests that farmers must cover their outdoor pastures with either roofing or netting, or use noise cannons to scare away wild birds. Perhaps it has escaped FDA that noise cannons would also scare the chickens? Or that putting a roof over a multi-acre pasture is not only cost-prohibitive, but would prevent rain and sun from reaching the living things in the pasture? The FDA also advocates walls around the pasture, to prevent mice, rats, and cats from entering, and then put a roof over it. That’s right—walls and roofing. In other words, they want the chickens to be kept in a building! This completely contradicts what “free-range” is supposed to be about!

FDA/USDA Begin to Take Action that Could Eliminate Organic Pastured Poultry in Favor of Factory Birds

The government threat to restricting or even eventually eliminating organic pastured chickens is back. Not only is the idea that organic pastured poultry are more dangerous than confined factory birds ridiculous, but the practice of continuing to allow factory chickens to continue using the UDSA organic certification without meeting the requirement of allowing the birds outdoor access, continues to this day. Cheap factory chickens and turkeys fed cheap government subsidized corn, soy, and wheat (much of which is genetically modified) is a big business in the U.S. So don't expect the market of humanely raised poultry outdoors on pastures and organic non-GMO feed to increase too much without a fight from Big Ag and the government agencies that protect them.

Organic Pastured Chicken Raised on Cocofeed

What is Tropical Traditions Pastured Poultry?

Tropical Traditions pastured poultry chickens are raised on pasture (grass, sunshine, insects, etc.) and on Cocofeed.

What is Cocofeed?
Cocofeed is an organic chicken-feed ration developed by Tropical Traditions that contains coconut pulp as well as other high-quality natural ingredients. The coconut pulp is the residue left over […]

Small poultry farmers grapple with lack of slaughterhouses

by Carla A. Wise

Producers in Oregon and beyond can’t find places to butcher chickens

On a brilliant fall day at Afton Field Farm, Tyler Jones shows off his butchering shed. Jones’ farm in Oregon’s fertile Willamette Valley boasts an overgrown orchard, a rambling farmhouse and sheds filled with freezers. Jones and his crew will butcher […]