Applegate launches The New Food Collective
The launch features a line of fresh sausages that is the first pork to be certified by the American Grassfed Association (AGA).
Products include:
Sweet Italian Pork Sausage: laced with fennel, sea salt and pepper;
Hot Italian Pork Sausage: a fiendish combination of fennels seeds, chili flakes and cayenne;
Ginger-Scallion Pork Sausage: fresh and zesty, ideal on a bun or in dumplings and curries; and
Breakfast Sausage: a classic, elevated with the perfect balance of salt, sweet and heat.
The AGA standard mandates that hogs have maximum access to the outdoors, allowing them to forage and roam in woods and pasture and that, during the grazing season, they gather most of their food outside. It also requires farmers to develop a pasture-management plan to support biological diversity, natural resources and soil fertility.
“The American Grassfed Association standard is a leap ahead of anything else out there,” said Gina Asoudegan, Applegate’s vice president of mission and innovation. “The organization’s name focuses on pasture — and these new sausages deliver on that. But AGA also stands for no antibiotics, no genetically modified feed and the highest animal-welfare standards. You’d need five separate logos to replace what AGA does.”
Photo Source: Hormel Foods
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