Every day, industrial farms use antibiotics for disease prevention. Applegate protects human health by prohibiting them.
Industrial farms use 35,000,000 pounds of antibiotics yearly
Applegate mandates zero* antibiotics yearly
*Applegate does not allow antibiotics for disease prevention. Sick animals are treated and sold to a conventional system.
Improving Life On The Farm
Applegate requires farms to meet third-party certified Animal Welfare Standards.
100% chicken and turkey farms are third-party certified
100% of our hog farms are third-party certified
100% grass-fed beef cattle
Cleaner, Crave-able Food For Everyone
2015: 17 ingredients replaced with non-gmo alternatives
2016: 2 products non-GMO verified
End of 2017: 30 products non-GMO verified
Our Goal By End of 2020
140+ products non-GMO verified. That means every product.
Seeding Demand For Regenerative Agriculture
Let's restore and revitalize the food system starting from the ground up!
15% of our sales to be sourced from animals raised on pasture-centered farms by 2020. We're just getting started on our commitment to put more animals on pasture.