Restaurant Chain Case Studies
The RSPCA has prepared these summaries from information supplied in spring 2007 by RSPCA Good Business Awards entrants.
Abel & Cole
Abel & Cole delivers fresh organic produce to homes and offices. All the poultry it sells is free-range and organic and it requires its free-range duck suppliers to provide an open water source. Due to welfare concerns it does not sell foie gras.
By not importing any meat or eggs, the standards of welfare, which comply with British legal standards highest standards are practised across the board.
All Abel & Cole products carry the Soil Association symbol apart from its free-range eggs which are certified by the Organic Food Federation. It has close contact with its pig and cattle suppliers and implements regular farm checks.
As all the products sold by the company are organic, the farms used to supply its meat, dairy products and eggs are inspected through the Soil Association.
Orders can be placed through Abel & Cole's comprehensive website.
Pepperfield Farm
Pepperfield Farm produces and sells free-range pork from Gloucester old spot and Tamworth pigs, reared in natural oak woodlands and pasture.
As members of the Wholesome Food Association it has a gate-to-plate policy meaning it is responsible for every stage of the pigs' lives including transportation of animals. Pepperfield Farm believes that pigs should be allowed to express natural behaviour such as being able to root about free range. It also has a herd of 20 Wiltshire horn sheep.
Pepperfield Farm invites its customers to visit to see its animal welfare practices first hand.
