I’ve been buying Whole Foods brand cage-free eggs for some time now.  I’d say I don’t mind paying more for quality but that’s wrong on two counts:  1) I hate spending money and 2) I’m not paying more at Whole Foods!

My last shopping trip included the above-mentioned eggs, but for the first time I noticed that the shelf tags read vegetarian fed (both white & brown varieties) but the cartons had no mention of this.  I spoke with someone in dairy who was surprised and said that he was sure they were vegetarian fed and perhaps I should check online.  Which I did, but there was no mention of this at all.

So Tuesday afternoon I sent an email to WF corporate, listing my concerns and received a return phone call a short time ago.  Whole Foods contacted their distributor who checked with their supplier and the chickens are fed absolutely NO animal products at all.  And if you think that’s not important, you should read what animal by-products are fed to the cheap egg chickens…

I am not only pleased with this response, I am even more pleased with WF’s FAST response time.  A nice place to shop even if they didn’t have 157,000 food samples each week and great deals for couponers.