Humanely raised pork is moving onto the menu of products at Metz Culinary Management, headquartered in Dallas, Pa. The management company is supporting Clemens Food Group’s Farm Promise program, a three-step verification process, which ensures crate-free communities, product traceability back to the farm and quality of life for the animals, including humane care, optimized diets, and a protected, safe environment at each stage of their lives. Clemens Food Group is a hog farming, production and logistics company.
Metz is joining the Farm Promise program as one component of “a three-part USDA Process Verified program allowing Metz to guarantee that all pork products displaying the Farm Promise seal come from healthy pigs, raised since birth in a caring, comfortable, low-stress community,” a company announcement states.
“It is our duty to try and make the world a better place,” explains Craig Phillips, vice president of purchasing at Metz. “It is my goal and intention to convert any pork product I can to the Free to Roam product line as it becomes available.”
With 25,000 pounds of pork supply, or 15% of Metz accounts, already carrying the Farm Promise seal, the company is working to increase that figure. “Metz [has accounts] from Maine to Florida and the number of operations varies state to state … but the goal is to use it everywhere I can,” Phillips says.