Baron's Meat & Poultry is dedicated to providing meat that is the highest quality, best flavor, adheres to the strictest levels of safety, and has been raised humanely with little impact to the environment.

To the USDA, natural meat is meat that has not added hormones and has been minimally produced. Yet the label "all-natural" is becoming more common in the meat industry, often as a marketing tool. To Baron's Meat & Poultry all-natural means:

• No Hormones
  
• No Antibiotics
  
• Human-grade vegetarian feed (no meat byproducts, feathers, textile scraps, or any other additives humans would not eat themselves.)
  
• Humanely treated
• Pasture-raised when possible with minimal impact to the land.
• Fed an organic diet when possible

Safety

Mary's Chicken uses the highest caliber technology to process poultry. Rather than soak freshly slaughtered chickens in a cold-water bath, which can contaminate chickens and add up to 14% water weight to the muscle and then employ a blast cooler to efficiently and safely bring each carcass to hygienic temperature. As a result, not only are the chickens more flavorful, but also the meat is safer..

One of our beef vendors, Creekstone Farms, is so committed to fighting Mad Cow Disease that they have generated a protocol wherein every one of their carcasses will be tested for the disease before distribution. Because of the Creekstone and Niman Ranch dedication to tracking their cattle from birth and to feeding an all-vegetarian diet, Baron's Meat & Poultry is confident in the safety of their beef products.

Quality

David is a trained chef and will not put meat into the case which does not meet his high standards for flavor, consistency, and quality. Not only must the meat taste good, each shipment must be as good as the last.

Baron's Premier Products

We personally hand-select all of the products that we sell and work with our vendors to ensure the products are: all-natural, free-range, humanely-raised, locally produced, and, when possible, organically-raised. None of our vendors add hormones or antibiotics.

Beef

Niman Ranch: Headquartered in the S.F. Bay Area, Niman Ranch is the leader in all-natural meats. Ranchers working with Niman Ranch must adhere to strict protocols, which include not only treating the animals humanely, but also ensuring that production does not harm the environment. Niman Ranch cattle are grass-fed in Bolinas pastures until they are one year old. To "finish" the flavor, the cattle are fed an all-natural human-quality feed of mixed grains. No animal byproducts, hormones, or supplemental antibiotics are used.

Creekstone Farms: Based in Kentucky and features humanely raised Black Angus cattle. Their beef is grass-fed and then finished on an all-corn diet. Creekstone is dedicated to healthy cattle and is a progressive leader within the meat industry in the fight against mad cow disease.

Marin Sun Farms: This local family farm is nestled in the rolling grasslands of Point Reyes National Seashore.  Their all natural, 100% grass-fed beef has a rich and robust flavor way beyond conventionally produced grain-fed beef.  This grass-fed beef has significant health benefits such as high levels of Omega 3 Fatty Acids and Conjugated Linoleic Acid, is raised without hormones and antibiotics, and has about half the fat and cholesterol of grain-fed beef.  Marin Sun Farms promotes the vision of an agrarian culture that restores, conserves, and maintains the productivity of our grasslands.

Pork

Niman Ranch partners with Willis Farms in Iowa to raise non-confinement, all-natural pork. Niman Ranch is dedicated to ensuring that meat production does not impact the environment, so "factory farms" are not allowed in its protocols. Pigs are pastured and eat human quality feeds. The pork Baron's Meat & Poultry provides is sweet, juicy, and flavorful.

Turkey

Mary's Heritage Turkeys: Mary's offers a truly unique Holiday selection: the Heritage Turkey. Modern turkeys have been bred to increase the percentage of breast meat and to increase tenderness. This has changed the taste of the turkey to a blander product, and the birds themselves are impacted-some have such large breasts that they can no longer fly. Mary's Chicken breeds an Heirloom breed of turkey, which retains its dark plumage, its ability to fly, and its excellent flavor. The meat is richer and denser than a supermarket turkey, and it is the same flavor people enjoyed generations ago.

Chicken

Mary's Chicken: Baron's Meat & Poultry offers Mary's all-natural chickens and Mary's Free-range chickens. Both types have no added hormones or antibiotics, and the all-natural line is fed only a human-grade blend of vegetarian-only grains. Mary's Chickens are blast cooled rather than cooled in a water bath so as to ensure the highest level of safety available in the poultry industry. (Water chilling can also add between 4% and 14% added water to the muscle meat, diluting the flavor and affecting the white meat texture.)

Organic, Smart Chicken: All Smart Chickens are fed an organic, vegetarian diet. The Smart Chicken Company uses the highest level of technology to ensure their organic chickens are safe and flavorful. To reduce stress, they use an atmospheric method of stunning the birds rather than electric stunning. The Smart Chicken technique is more humane and results in a better tasting product. Furthermore, Smart Chicken also uses the blast cooling technique. This is an excellent product.

Additional Premier Products

• Duck, Quail, and Goose Breast
  
• Whole Rabbit from Cloverdale Farms
  
• Niman Ranch Hams, Bacon, and Hot Dogs ("Fearless Franks" All Beef) in either regular or nitrate-free.
  
• Niman Ranch Lamb
  
• Durham Ranch Buffalo
  
• Neuske's Slab Bacon - Hand cut to your specifications. This bacon is hard smoked with a strong cure.
  
• Neuske's Canadian Bacon - Truly great. Neuske's products are commercially available and represent perhaps 5% of our product line, which is not all natural. We carry their products because they are just that good.