Meat & Poultry

There was a time when you could walk into your local butcher's shop and find a perfect, beautiful porterhouse, cut that very morning with you in mind because the butcher (who knows you by name) figured you'd be in looking for something like that for dinner tonight.

Think this scene is pure nostalgia?

Think again. The meat expert standing behind the counter at your nearby Whole Foods Market is prepared to serve up whatever cut of meat catches your eye in the cooler or case, packaged especially for you and accompanied by cooking tips and sage advice only a real, experienced butcher can provide.

We still do meat and poultry the old-fashioned way, when people cared where their meat came from, how it was raised and how it was processed. No worries about animal byproducts or antibiotics in the animal's feed or added hormones or, if you're buying prepackaged meat, no worries about carbon monoxide in the packaging, a deceptive technique that keeps meat red and fresh-looking even when it's weeks old.

We work with independent inspectors to ensure that our producers and processors adhere to our high quality standards for meat — the strictest in the industry — to offer you the highest-quality meat products available anywhere. And it's not just quality: we offer an incredible variety of meats including game, duck, sausages and low-fat cuts, in addition to turkey and chicken raised on vegetarian diets.

We offer organic meats, raised humanely and processed with a measure of compassion, custom cut to your specifications when you want it. We also make your life easy by creating oven-ready meals, stuffed meats and kabobs, and by providing cooking instructions and personal recommendations—not to mention complimentary services, including seasoning and marinating.

It's all about quality and freshness and caring: farmers and ranchers caring about the welfare of the animal, processors caring about the quality of the product, and our butchers caring about you. From grass-fed beef to uncured hams and bacon, it's all quality all the time, and the best-tasting meat around.