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When you order an Appledore Turkey for your Christmas
Dinner, you can be sure of the tastiest possible meal, because our turkeys
have been raised to the highest standard, as listed below:
Golden Promise Code
This code guarantees that our turkeys are:
- Reared and produced with the greatest care by
independent farmers dedicated to the production of the finest truly
Traditional Farm Fresh Turkeys, who are committed to this code.
- Grown slowly to full maturity and prime condition.
- Fattened on rations containing at least 70% cereals
with no animal protein and never given antibiotics or other
additives for growth promotion.
- Housed in buildings giving both natural light and
ventilation while providing essential weather protection, with space
at or better than the Animal Welfare Code recommendations.
- Always handled with extreme care by experiences
staff under the personal supervision of the farmer.
- Regularly bedded with comfortable straw or soft
wood shavings.
- Grown on farms that are independently inspected to
ensure that the Code is met in full.
- Slaughtered on the farm to avoid stress from long
distance transportation.
- Always dry plucked and hung for a minimum of seven
days to mature and develop the natural flavours unique to this
Traditional type of production.
- Processed in facilities inspected by the local
Environmental Health Officer to ensure that all legislation is fully
complied with.
- Individually inspected and examined before
qualifying for the Golden Promise guarantee to be affixed.
- Supplied with a money-back commitment in the
unlikely event of consumer dissatisfaction.
This commitment is guaranteed by the
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