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What is Organic Meat?
'Sustainable agriculture is a form of food production which builds biodiversity and provides people with wholesome, healthy
food for all time'
Jonathan Porritt
Patron of the Soil Association
What better reason to eat organic meat than the fact that it tastes better than anything you remember - and if you do remember it will be a distant memory of 'how food used to taste'.
Organic agriculture is a safe, sustainable farming system, producing healthy crops and livestock without damage to the environment.
'Organic is a legal definition and all products must be certified by a government approved body, registered with the United Kingdom Register of Organic Food Standards (UKROFS). The Soil Association symbol on our products is your guarantee that our meat is organic and ensures integrity and high standards from farm to plate. We are inspected and registered on an annual basis.
For meat to carry an organic symbol, the livestock must have been conceived, born and reared under a certified organic farming system. Poultry, at the moment, are allowed to be introduced to an organic system at one day old, having come from a conventional hatchery. The abattoir must be organically certified, and the meat processed through an organically certified plant.
The standards for organic livestock and meat cover feeding, veterinary treatment, living environment, transport, slaughter and butchery.
An organic farming system aims to provide as natural a life as possible for livestock within a commercial farming operation. It allows livestock to express as much natural behaviour as possible. Our own British Saddleback pigs, for example, stroll the Wiltshire Downs looking for fun, adding flavour and texture with every step. The conditions promote growth at normal rates, in an environment where innate resistance to diseases is encouraged.
We work on the basis that if disease and infection in a flock or herd is a regular occurrence there is something wrong with the system.
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