meat
New Zealand has five times as many sheep as people, and sells its lamb to the world. So I assumed organic lamb would be easy to find here. It wasn't. Here's what I found when I went looking — and the missing piece that explains it.
chicken
A chicken raised for meat passes through a sequence of inputs and processes between hatching and packaging. Coccidiostats in feed. A chlorine bath at slaughter. Chlorinated water absorbed into the meat and sold by weight. Here's what I found when I mapped the whole journey.
beef
The Organic Farm Butchery sources certified organic meat from approved farms around New Zealand, then processes and sells it under one brand. It’s a vertically connected organic supply chain, rather than a single farm raising and butchering its own animals.
