Certifications & Shechita

Green Memberships

• Green America Approved
• American Grassfed Association

USDA Government Certifications 

• Glatt Kosher
• 100% Grass-fed certified (Beef and Lamb)
• 100% Pastured (all)
• No added antibiotics
• No added growth hormones*
• No confinement
• Fed all vegetarian Diet
• No added nitrites or nitrates

Kosher Heckshers

All KOL Foods products are glatt kosher and are produced exclusively in processing facilities with top-notch certification. Beef and lamb are approved by the OU or Star-K. All our poultry is under the OU and CHK. The heckshers are found on the butcher's label on the back of each package.

Shechita Information
The environmental and health impacts of animal farming and the humane treatment of animals are of huge import to KOL Foods. Our healthy, humanely treated animals eat what they evolved to eat and live free on pasture. So it should come as no surprise that this balance with nature results in not only healthy and environmentally and ethically sound meat, but also delicious flavor. "100% grass-fed” means that animals are free to wander around spacious green pastures for their entire lives. In contrast to corn-fed animals in feedlots, animals that exercise by walking around and grazing produce much cleaner and nutrient-rich meat. For example, 100% grass-fed beef and lamb do not require antibiotics to survive and rarely get sick. In contrast, Mad Cow and E. Coli are entirely feedlot produced disasters. KOL Foods doesn’t settle for less than 100%.

Currently, all of KOL Foods’ lamb, chicken, turkey and duck is raised in PA, MD, VA or WV, and is schected at slaughterhouses that use animal-welfare expert Dr. Temple Grandin's methods. These abattoirs are in PA or MD, so the animals don’t travel far.

KOL Foods carries two lines of kosher, 100% grass-fed beef – AT (Appalachian Trail from PA, VA or WV) and GR (Grassland Range from South America). KOL Foods’ AT beef uses our "gold standard" with slaughter techniques developed by Dr. Temple Grandin. For customers looking for Grandin-style techniques, we recommend our AT beef. KOL Foods’ GR beef, like AT beef, does not have to travel far to the abattoirs. While GR slaughter techniques need improvement, they are kinder than the "shackle and hoist” method. KOL Foods offers GR beef on a contingency basis subject to a drive of improvement towards matching our highest ideals. Customers who are looking for more affordable, 100% grass-fed, kosher beef might want to consider GR beef.

As the only kosher purveyor that exclusively sources 100% grass-fed meat, our mission is to enable people to simultaneously live by both their traditional and modern values (in an age where it can be quite tricky to do so) and not have to choose between them. We want you to truly know and trust that our beef, lamb, chicken, turkey and duck are healthy, humane, sustainable and deliciously mouthwatering. KOL Foods is what kosher should be.