No Antibiotics Ever - No water Added

News Flash!
Maverick Ranch becomes the Official Supplier of
Natural Pork to the U.S. Olympic Training Centers.

The natural line of red meat products from Maverick Ranch expands to pork in 2002, starting with the Salt Lake games in February and Olympic Training Centers in March.

Average attendance at the three Olympic Training Centers is 1,100 athletes per day. Over 20,000 athletes receive training, evaluation, medical and dental care at the training centers each year. America's entire Olympic program is funded by donations from individuals, along with corporate sponsors and suppliers. The Moore family is proud to provide natural pork as well as natural beef and buffalo to all three Training Centers.

At Maverick, we are very excited about adding pork to our natural line of products. For years, nearly everyone in agriculture felt it was impossible to raise hogs without antibiotics in the feed. Over the last twenty years, 90% of the hog production and finishing in the U.S. has moved into "confinement barns". In these barns (mostly controlled by less than 20 corporate producers), there is only 6-7 square feet per hog. Waste manure is pumped into lagoons where the liquids evaporate and the solids settle into the ground, thereby often contaminating ground water. Additionally, hogs have been bred leaner and leaner to satisfy consumers' requests for lean products and the large packers' conquest for higher profit. However, the result is that most commodity pork has lost its flavor and tenderness. The end result is that nearly 80% of the fresh pork consumed in America is "pumped with water and various sodium products". This results in pork that is 7% to 30% 'water added' with the purpose of enhancing tenderness and juiciness (to try and get pork to eat the way it used to).

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