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With its very long history over 120 years, the Hakodate-Gotoken in Hokkaido is one of the most reputed French cuisine caterers in Japan. After several years of our joint work with Gotoken to develop a new product by using the California grown "organic" chicken meat to entertain consumers in Japan, we are happy to report that the Gotoken now is ready to market a new prouct of canned curry soup using the Petaluma's organic chicken, Rosie. We will highlight this exciting upcoming news by our "Breaking News" when its official sales may start across Japan expectedly sometime mid-July, just a few weeks to go. 

For more information on the Hakodate-Gotoken, please refer to its web site that is available in "Japanese language" only as of this writing.

http://www.hakodate.or.jp/gotoken/default.htm

One of our business agenda for the year 2000 is to open our online ship or web based catalogue shopping service to consumers. Although its date of opening is unfixed yet, we are now close to its launching whilst our service is limited to a delivery in Japan only and MLT(Japan) with a support from Kakiuchi is a vehicle to run the shop, California Club. Petaluma products are to be the initial shopping list items.

Apart from the e-Shop opening of our own, in the meantime, one of the Kakiuchi's customers named "Tori-Hiro" is now selling "Petaluma chickens" via its web site. This company runs a wholesale business specialized in meat in more than 30 years. Their high-quality meats of beef, chicken and others are supplied to a variety of hotels, reastaurants and pubs. The web site is available in Japanese langauge only, the following web image may be informative to readers.

While the web page is written in Japanese language, if you wish to take a look, please click below

http://shop.tori-hiro.co.jp

(Sample)
This page on the left
Rosie-organic chicken
in ziploc pack is shown

3 Yoshikei Ohmiya Starts Serving Petaluma Chicken

Yoshikei-Ohmiya, one of the leading home food delivery service group, i.e. the Yoshikei Group, in Japan, has recently adopted our Petaluma Rocky Chicken to its regular menu list by changing locally supplied chickens. Kakiuchi has started its supply of Rocky chicken to Yoshikei-Ohmiya from June 19, 2000. Yoshikei-Ohmiya’s decision to use the Rocky the Natural-Chicken is based on our good result of tasty and high-quality healthy chicken meat to Yoshikei-Saitama that has been using the same chicken meat since June last year. We are also thankful to the strenuous and continuing sales efforts by Kakiuchi staff, our partner in Japan. For more information on the Rocky chicken, please refer to the below.

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Rocky, the Natural Chicken grown in California, has old fashioned chicken flavor and fed a high quality, flavor-enhancing, corn and soybean meal vegetarian diet containing no animal fat or animal by-products.

A story behind the delicious healthy chickens

Rocky the Range Chicken was created when California super-star chefs searching for the equal of the flavorful free range chicken they had used while cooking and training in Europe.With these chefs, Allen Shainsky of Petaluma Poultry, has started his challenge of producing such a chicken in the United States. Allen, with his partner and practicing nutritionist, recreated an all natural feed using only the vegetable proteins of corn and soy and containing none of the animal by-products and fats so common today.

After approximately a year experimentation, with the chefs testing each lot of birds for taste and quality, Rocky was ready and pronounced superior in flavor to the French free range chicken. Two years later, in 1988, Rocky junior was created to provide a smaller sized version of antibiotic-free, flavorful chicken. Rocky Junior is several weeks younger   but enjoys the same feed and living environment except that he may roam only.

NO STRESS IN ENVIRONMENT ENSURES THE SUPERB QUALITY

The chickens are grown from one day of age without the use of any antibiotics, also excluding the use of sub-therapeutic levels of antibiotics for enhancing growth that are commonly used in conventional chickens. They are fed a nutritionally balanced diet of corn and soybean meal, without the use of animal fat, and animal by-products grown in uncrowded spacious houses with natural daylight, and the chickens should be able to roam freely throughout the growing house. In such a way chickens are grown and handled in a humane manner at all times.

	CONVENTIONAL	PETALUMA ROCKY
FEED	ANIMAL FAT/BY PRODUCTS USED	VEGETABLE FEED ONLY
RANGE	COVERED AND NO SUNLIGHT	OPEN WITH SUNLIGHT
ANTIBIOTICS	STOP USING 7DAYS BEFORE DELIVERY	NO USE IN ENTIRE PROCESS
PROCESSING	AFTER INSPECITON BY VETERINARIAN	ASSURES SUPERB QUALITY OF NATURAL CHICKEN
FAT RATIO	100	74（LEG）

4 Mr. M. Takeuchi of Ishii Foods Speaks Again

The MLT's November 1999 issue has highlighted Mr. Takeuchi, who runs the Ishii-Group's chicken business in Tokushima, the island of Shikoku, of his leading activitities in the orgainc food industry in Japan. And Mr. Takeuchi has recently written a thesis focusing on the latest agenda surrounding the organic meat business industries.

(Note from Editor)
We are sorry that an English version is not available as of this writing whilst it may be posted when becomes available.

Please click Mr. Takeuchi's Thesis(in Japanese language)

5 Organic Related Links

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