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Meat Mail Order move Popular with Lovers of
Good Food and Health
Cambrian Meats started
a mail order business four years ago which owner,
Ewan Campbell says has been very
successful.
“The general public
who love good food and others who are
concerned about their health have been
steadily turning to our products.”
These people
include parents of children with ADD and other
deficiencies associated with Omega 3
deficiencies.
“I’ve been lauded
upon for producing healthy food. I’m very
proud of what we do and people thank us for
it.”
He says for some
children the alternative to a diet rich in
Omega 3 is Ritalin.
While Campbell
shies away from the organic label, he
describes Cambrian Meats as “eco farming at
it’s best.”
He does not use any
animal health products including drenches on
his property, putting all the emphasis on soil
health.
Although he says
this status cannot be achieved straight away,
it is very achievable for all farmers.
“If you go and fix
the soils up and the plants, then the animal
is healthy and then we are healthy — is that
too simple?”
Through what he
describes as playing around at home, Campbell
has developed a soil system he is now
marketing around the country in a bid to grow
Omega 3 rich meat, and other products, on a
much larger scale.
”If you consider
our own market in New Zealand in the same
proportion as New Zealand to the rest of the
world, we should have no problem selling
everything we produce at much better value to
the farmer and the customer.”
He is enthusiastic
about farmers taking high quality produce
directly to the consumer, a concept he
believes increasingly health conscious
consumers around the world are hungry
for.
Within the next
five years he is hoping to have enough farmers
growing high quality products such as meat,
wine, cheese and fruit from his soil system,
so that he can take the different products as
a whole to market it to consumers on the world
stage.
Currently they are
in the process of adding to their processing
plant in Tauranga, which in time will sell a
range of these products along with their beef
and lamb.
“We’ve already had
people knocking on the door of the processing
plant asking when it’s going to start, so we
know the market is there.”
Published in Country-Wide, southern edition,
September 2004. Reprinted here with the kind
permission of Country-Wide. For more on
Country-Wide, check out www.country-wide.co.nz
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