Our Production Standards
Heritage Foods USA strives to maintain the vision of its Advisory
Board member, Alice Waters, and her restaurant when she writes:
"Chez Panisse gathers its ingredients from known and trusted
purveyors-purveyors known to be committed to sound and sustainable
practices and trusted to remain informed and responsive to these
values in a rapidly changing society. Our purveyors are committed
to healthful products and practices that are pure and natural as
possible, without synthetic additives or pollutants and without
the unnecessary complexities of packaging or marketing. They are
also committed to the conservation of resources, both natural resources
like the land and water, and societal resources like the families
and businesses that plant and harvest."
Heritage Foods USA works hard to ensure the ethical and humane
treatment of the foods we sell when they are raised, transported
and processed. We work with producers who use strict production
protocols, we work with processing facilities that we know and
have visited and we ensure that the animals do not suffer at any
point in the process which would affect taste and which would violate
the sacred pact we have with the food we consume. While it is hard
to judge an animal's happiness, we believe that if an animal is
able to act out its natural instincts while it is alive that it
is happy. This is why all the animals we sell live outdoors as nature
intended and maintains a natural diet. Every product we sell comes
with a traceable label that allows our customers to verify our claims
for themselves.
Heritage Foods believes in respecting the traditions of our past. Our meats and poultry are raised on pasture and are not fed antibiotics and animal by-products. Our fish are harvested in ways that do not harm the environment. We are searching for sources of organic feed.
Our pork farmers are Certified Humane and our poultry farmers are certified by the Animal Welfare Institute. Please visit their sites for more information on their rigorous protocols: www.certifiedhumane.com and www.awionline.org.
 
Our value added products are made in small batches by independent, farmers and businesses.
Thanks to all these guidelines, our foods actually taste better and, better yet, the producers do their best to minimize their negative effects on the environment and society.
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