Month: January 2011

To help consumers choose chicken products they can feel good about, PERDUE fresh, all natural chicken products now carry the USDA Process Verified Seal. Perdue is the first poultry company to receive this seal of verification for its practices. The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) has verified that PERDUE products with this seal are from chickens that have been raised without cages and/or were fed an all vegetarian diet. …

Smithfield Foods, Inc. announced today that it completed the sale of its hog production operations located in Texhoma, Oklahoma to Prestage Farms, Inc. Specific terms of the transaction were not disclosed. …

Whether they are cooked in a skillet or heated in a microwave, Applegate’s new Classic Pork Breakfast Sausage and Savory Turkey Breakfast Sausage give consumers all of the taste, with none of the antibiotics, hormones, high-sodium and fat usually stuffed into sausages. …

Bill the Butcher, Inc., a leading retailer of organic and natural, grass-fed meats, today reported its financial results for the month of December 2010. Revenues for the company’s six stores currently in operation were $271,270. Gross profit for the month of December was $119,116, or 44%. Net loss for the month was $79,606. …

At a time when people have a bottomless interest in all aspects of their food from farm to table, The Gourmet Butcher has just released a comprehensive set of DVDs that show how to butcher beef, pork and lamb. The butcher is Cole Ward of northern Vermont who has been a teaching butcher for more than 30 years and who was featured as one of America’s top 50 butchers in the recent book Primal Cuts: Cooking with America’s Best Butchers by Marissa Guggiana. …