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  • Food firm targeting poultry system by using slow-grow birds

    NATHAN OWENS, Northwest Arkansas Democrat-Gazette|Mar 20, 2019

    FAYETTEVILLE, Ark. (AP) — A new food company with ties to Northwest Arkansas said it wants to set itself apart by changing the chicken farming system and raising a better bird. Matthew Wadiak, who helped found the meal-kit delivery service Blue Apron, said he plans to improve the poultry system by producing heirloom, pasture-raised, slow-grow birds in the Ozarks. The system will also aim to mitigate climate change through its farm practices, he said. The company, Cooks Venture, is marketing itself as a food firm rooted in "regenerative a...