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As Co-founder of Applegate, Chris has helped bring organic and antibiotic free meat products to the market. Chris has been able to take his life experiences of growing up on a farm in New Jersey that raised Black Angus, turkeys, horses and ponies; along with working in his family�s specialty meat business producing dry cured, nitrite free hams and bacons since 1968 and apply it to growing Applegate into the leading natural & organic deli and meat company in America today.
After graduating from culinary school in England, Chris spent time working in vineyards throughout Europe. Afterwards he returned to America to work many years in the wine business. Seeing an opportunity to create specialty meat products, he returned to his family�s meat business to produce natural & organic meat products. A year later, Stephen McDonnell bought the business from Chris� father and together they grow Applegate. Chris developed the grower network for Applegate, working closely with the farms and processing facilities to assure they adhere Applegate�s strict animal welfare standards.
Member of PAACO, Slow Food, OTA Board of Directors, former member of the OTA Livestock subcommittee, Former board member of the American Association of Meat Processors.
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