The ASPCA’s (American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals®) Shop With Your Heart Grocery List is a searchable directory of welfare-certified animal products and plant-based alternatives.
"Shopping with your heart is not about being perfect or about any single right way to eat, it's about recognizing our individual power to improve farm animals' lives," said Daisy Freund, vice president, ASPCA Farm Animal Welfare. "To achieve a world without factory farms, this movement needs to include everyone. The ASPCA's Grocery List is designed to help consumers, no matter what they eat, make choices that show animal agriculture that there is no place for animal cruelty in our food system."
With more than one million views in 2021, the Shop With Your Heart resources have proven essential for those seeking alternatives to factory-farmed products, whether plant-based or animal-based, with meaningful ASPCA-recognized animal welfare certification.
Shop With Your Heart has helped millions of farm animals:
The number of animals raised under meaningful welfare-certified standards has doubled to more than 600 million annually.
Over 140 food companies offering welfare-certified products have been added to the list - a 350% increase in the number of meaningfully higher-welfare products on the market.
The ASPCA has secured 200+ public commitments from food companies to improve and audit animal welfare in their supply chains, which will impact hundreds of millions more animals over the next few years.
The vast majority of Shop With Your Heart users (92%) say that the program made them more motivated to avoid factory-farmed products with most having changed what they buy or how they shop for food.
More than three out of four (79%) Shop With Your Heart users report trying to reduce consumption of at least one type of animal product, with 84% finding it easier to identify alternatives to factory-farmed products using ASPCA resources.
Check out the Shop With Your Heart list here.
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