Our Story

    Madewell Meats LLC has been providing its customers with top quality ALL NATURAL Pork products for almost a decade.  We strive to meet the needs of the consumer with lean and tender pork.  We are also very much concerned with the environment so we grow hogs the natural way.  We go out of our way to make sure that our great tasting pork is absolutely free of antibiotics, growth stimulants, chemicals and animal by-products.
    Madewell Meats LLC is primarily supplied by Steve Madewell & Sons, which is a family farm in the Ozarks of Southwest Missouri.  We have run a 100-sow farrow-to-finish outdoor swine operation for over 30 years.  This means that each and every hog we sell has not been in confinement one day of its life.
 

    The USDA only targets the processing of the meat and says nothing of how the animals are raised.  We feel the all “natural” label does not pertain to the processing of the meat only, but to the way the animals are raised.  Our image of the word “natural” includes the following:
    1.     The animals are raised in an OUTDOOR (natural) environment their entire life.
    2.     The animals are not fed any animal by products, antibiotics, chemicals or growth stimulants.
    3.     The animals are not administered any antibiotics, chemicals or growth stimulants.

We can guarantee that the animals on our farm have not been fed or administered any antibiotics, growth stimulants, chemicals or animal by-products their entire life.  We have the animals harvested in a humane manner and processed in a sanitary and clean environment.  All our processing is done by USDA Inspected and/or State Inspected facilities.
    Raising hogs the way we do is more costly and labor intensive.  This manner of raising does not take away from the taste or leanness of our pork, but adds assurance.  Like so many people, we’re also concerned about the use of antibiotics and their ineffectiveness to fight some illnesses.  Though it is not been proven, we feel if we do not use any antibiotics or chemicals in the raising of our animals there will be no chance for you to build up immunity to antibiotic your doctor prescribes to fight off illness.  The long term effects of the use of antibiotics and chemicals on those who consume meat that came from animals administered antibiotics and chemicals is still unknown.  We feel we should be responsible and do our part in protecting the possibility of any future problems with your health.
    With the quality of product combined with the customer satisfaction that they are getting naturally grown pork, we will continue to produce “Madewell” pork well into the future.