Upscale markets in Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, China, Korea and other countries prefer organically-grown and processed pork and chicken meats. Reason: current commercially-grown chicken and pigs worldwide are fed with concentrates that are loaded with such chemicals as growth enhancers, disease preventives, synthetic vitamins, meat 'beautifiers', feeds preservatives, vaccines, anti-caking, anti-rancidity and anti-mold agents, etc. Portions of such chemicals are now known to stay within the meats even after slaughter and cooking. In due time they become causes of cancers, high blood pressure, obesity, diabetes, kidney and liver disease, etc.
Health-conscious consumers who are aware of such dangers prefer to consume organically grown and processed meats, despite such products' premium prices. Organic pork and chicken meat come from livestock raised on the range, the animals free to move about within fenced feedlots that have roofed shelters versus rains. They are fed with all-organic feeds (no harmful chemicals added) the ingredients of which are produced right at the farm. Plant-based feeds ingredients are likewise grown without harmful chemical fertilizers and insecticides. Plant-based pesticides, natural pests' 'enemies', compost and organic foliar fertilizers are used instead.
For the mega co-op, profits should be greatly enhanced thru its growing of all feed ingredients within its agro-forest, thereby avoiding such high costs as transportation, anti-spoilage additives, packaging, shipping, storage, and related labor which in the Philippines are all currently shouldered mainly by commercial feed mixers. Currently, eighty percent of commercial chicken and pig raisers' budgets are consumed in said country by commercial feeds purchases. By growing its own feeds, the mega co-ops should thereby earn immense profits out of its organic chicken and pig product lines while bringing down the prices of such products.
To minimize capital investment while maximizing profits, mega co-ops have to engage in contract-growing of organic chicken and pork with Japanese, South Korean, Taiwanese, Singaporean and Coastal Chinese restaurateurs and food companies. The foreign companies have to supply the slaughterhouses, refrigeration facilities and processing equipment as well as their secret ingredients and specialized processing technologies. They may likewise supply the initial stocks of range chicken and pig breeds according to their markets' special needs for quality and taste. Turkey, ostrich, quail and ducks may be added to the product line.
The meat factories built within mega co-op agro-forest sites may be expected to produce frozen meat cuts, smoked hams, bacon, flavored pork and chicken barbecues, sausages and hot dogs, spam, instant noodle ingredients, etc. All resultant finished products should be exported to the contractor companies' home countries. The contracting partners may haggle over raw material prices with focus on long-term (forever) profit-making for both sides, thus leading to mutually beneficial pricing.
All the factories must be constructed by mega co-op construction companies which are joint ventures with local construction firms. The foreign companies should provide for all costs to set up the factory buildings and install feedlot shelters.
The social benefits? Aside from employment of Elementary level masses, the agro-forests and their food factories will help prevent topsoil erosion, landslides, lowland floods, droughts, drying up of streams, silting of waterways, and family business bankruptcies incident to such scourges. Food factory joint ventures will indirectly help thru their profit shares awarded to co-ops, part of which the co-ops will use for forest and topsoil protection. For humanity, the benefit will be in the form of perpetual growth and maintenance of agro-forests which convert billions of tons of CO2 into life-sustaining oxygen.
Health-conscious consumers who are aware of such dangers prefer to consume organically grown and processed meats, despite such products' premium prices. Organic pork and chicken meat come from livestock raised on the range, the animals free to move about within fenced feedlots that have roofed shelters versus rains. They are fed with all-organic feeds (no harmful chemicals added) the ingredients of which are produced right at the farm. Plant-based feeds ingredients are likewise grown without harmful chemical fertilizers and insecticides. Plant-based pesticides, natural pests' 'enemies', compost and organic foliar fertilizers are used instead.
For the mega co-op, profits should be greatly enhanced thru its growing of all feed ingredients within its agro-forest, thereby avoiding such high costs as transportation, anti-spoilage additives, packaging, shipping, storage, and related labor which in the Philippines are all currently shouldered mainly by commercial feed mixers. Currently, eighty percent of commercial chicken and pig raisers' budgets are consumed in said country by commercial feeds purchases. By growing its own feeds, the mega co-ops should thereby earn immense profits out of its organic chicken and pig product lines while bringing down the prices of such products.
To minimize capital investment while maximizing profits, mega co-ops have to engage in contract-growing of organic chicken and pork with Japanese, South Korean, Taiwanese, Singaporean and Coastal Chinese restaurateurs and food companies. The foreign companies have to supply the slaughterhouses, refrigeration facilities and processing equipment as well as their secret ingredients and specialized processing technologies. They may likewise supply the initial stocks of range chicken and pig breeds according to their markets' special needs for quality and taste. Turkey, ostrich, quail and ducks may be added to the product line.
The meat factories built within mega co-op agro-forest sites may be expected to produce frozen meat cuts, smoked hams, bacon, flavored pork and chicken barbecues, sausages and hot dogs, spam, instant noodle ingredients, etc. All resultant finished products should be exported to the contractor companies' home countries. The contracting partners may haggle over raw material prices with focus on long-term (forever) profit-making for both sides, thus leading to mutually beneficial pricing.
All the factories must be constructed by mega co-op construction companies which are joint ventures with local construction firms. The foreign companies should provide for all costs to set up the factory buildings and install feedlot shelters.
The social benefits? Aside from employment of Elementary level masses, the agro-forests and their food factories will help prevent topsoil erosion, landslides, lowland floods, droughts, drying up of streams, silting of waterways, and family business bankruptcies incident to such scourges. Food factory joint ventures will indirectly help thru their profit shares awarded to co-ops, part of which the co-ops will use for forest and topsoil protection. For humanity, the benefit will be in the form of perpetual growth and maintenance of agro-forests which convert billions of tons of CO2 into life-sustaining oxygen.
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