Ethical Eaters

Ethical Eaters is for people who don't want their dinner money ending up with factory farms. It checks which farms supply a restaurant's meat, dairy, eggs and seafood, and how those animals were raised, so you know before you book or order. That's harder to know than it sounds. Most restaurants we've checked don't name a single supplier on their website, and a farm name on a menu could belong to a family pasture or to a factory barn with a friendly name. So people who care can end up paying extra for "humanely raised" on trust, while the restaurants and farms doing it right are hard to tell apart from places that only borrow the words. Checking for yourself means finding each supplier, then working out how it treats its animals, every time you eat out. Ethical Eaters does that digging for you, in about 3 minutes instead of 30. Ever wonder why it matters how the animals were raised? Pack enough animals into one barn and disease shows up more often, so confinement farms lean on antibiotics, and public health agencies have tracked the resistant bacteria that result, in the animals and on the meat. Recent research is also starting to suggest that grass-finished beef and pastured eggs carry more omega-3 fats and vitamin E than grain-fed and caged versions. Ethical Eaters reports how the animals behind a menu were raised (it never tests the food or counts nutrients), so you can pick a place before you book. NOT JUST ANOTHER FOOD MAP Instead of 30 minutes of digging per restaurant, the map gives you the answer the moment you tap: every pin is a restaurant we've already checked, with more than 2,700 reports so far. Somewhere we haven't checked takes about 3 minutes. Each report shows the farm behind every meat, dairy, egg and seafood product we could trace, how those animals were raised (pasture-raised, free-range, wild-caught or factory farmed, for example), a plain 1 to 5 rating and the date we checked. HOW YOU USE IT • Open the map to see checked restaurants near you, each pin colored by its rating. • Search for a restaurant by name before you book. • At the restaurant, snap the menu or the sign out front. Planning ahead, upload a screenshot of the restaurant's page. • Somewhere we haven't checked? Run a fresh check. It reads the restaurant's website, looks up each supplier it names and checks how that supplier treats its animals. Most fresh checks finish within five minutes. • Save the places worth going back to. WHEN A RESTAURANT DOESN'T SAY Plenty don't, and the report tells you so plainly instead of guessing: it rates the place low for transparency and marks each animal product "Unable to verify." Knowing which places are open about their sourcing is worth something on its own. WHAT WE LOOK AT Animal products only: meat, dairy, eggs and seafood, and how the animals were raised. The report doesn't count nutrients, flag allergens or cover vegetables. WHO PAYS FOR THIS The map and its ratings are free. A yearly membership, with a free trial, opens every full report, lets you scan or check any restaurant you name and save your favorites. Audit Credits, sold separately, cover fresh checks past the daily allowance. Membership funds the work of putting humane farms, and the restaurants that buy from them, in front of people who care. Nobody pays us to change a rating, and we never sell your data. Fresh reports are written by AI from the restaurant's own website and each supplier's public pages, and every report shows the date it was checked. Questions: support@ethicaleatersapp.com Privacy Policy: https://ethicaleatersapp.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://ethicaleatersapp.com/terms-and-use