Month: September 2013

Premium Black Angus Beef will be appearing on restaurant menus and supermarket shelves more frequently for Canadian consumers as Creekstone Farms Premium Black Angus Beef and C&C Packing Inc., one of the largest independent meat distributors in Canada, have finalized details of their supply agreement this month. As part of this agreement, C&C Packing will serve as the exclusive distributor of Creekstone Farms Premium Black Angus Beef in Canada, with trucks of product rolling out to customers by the end of September. …

Animal welfare continues to be a key issue for today's consumers, according to a new national survey released by American Humane Association (AHA), yet shoppers say humanely raised products are hard to find. While 89 percent of the more than 2,600 consumers surveyed say they are very concerned about animal welfare, nearly 1,000 report not buying humanely raised products simply because of lack of availability. In response to this study, Foster Farms joined together with thought leaders in the animal compassion movement at American Humane Association's inaugural Be Humane Summit last week to encourage other producers to embrace the ethical, science based animal welfare standards set forth in AHA's certification program to make humanely raised foods more widely available. …