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Underground Festival is moving to a Waikato farm that raises, kills, butchers and sells its own animals without any of it leaving the district. That chain is rarer than it sounds, and the gap it closes is the same gap that keeps the word organic off good meat.
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There is certified organic beef in New Zealand supermarkets. Most people walk past it, because the brand that sells it also sells five kinds of beef that aren't organic. Here's where to buy it and how to spot it.
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Nobody is hiding what your beef was given. Nobody is telling you either. I went looking for the record and found a form that only asks about right now.
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I stood in front of the mince cabinet and photographed the shelf tags. The cheapest was $21.99 a kilo. The most expensive was $33.98. Both were mince.
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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.
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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.
