The Norway Inn
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Norway Inn Fair Trade & Animal Welfare
Norway Inn - Fair Trade Policy
Wherever possible we purchase FREE TRADE products, all our tea, coffee and chocolate is free trade and much of our fresh fruit etc comes from free trade producers
The Fairtrade Foundation is the independent non-profit organisation that licenses use of the FAIRTRADE Mark on products in the UK in accordance with internationally agreed Fairtrade standards.
There vision is of a world in which justice and sustainable development are at the heart of trade structures and practices so that everyone, through their work, can maintain a decent and dignified livelihood and develop their full potential.
There vision is of a world in which justice and sustainable development are at the heart of trade structures and practices so that everyone, through their work, can maintain a decent and dignified livelihood and develop their full potential.
WHAT IS FAIR TRADE?
Free Trade Products
Our Coffee, Chocolate & Tea
Darlington's supplies freshly roasted gourmet coffee, including some excellent Fair Trade and Organic beans. We source beans from all coffee regions; Central America, the Caribbean, East & Southern Africa, Asia and Australasia.
We go direct to the farmer which enables us to trade fairly as well as monitor the quality of the coffee from farm to roasting plant.
Our Coffee, Chocolate & Tea
Darlington's supplies freshly roasted gourmet coffee, including some excellent Fair Trade and Organic beans. We source beans from all coffee regions; Central America, the Caribbean, East & Southern Africa, Asia and Australasia.
We go direct to the farmer which enables us to trade fairly as well as monitor the quality of the coffee from farm to roasting plant.
Eco-gastronomy - and the conviviality of food: Since the 1980s, Slow Food has become an international organisation of 80,000 members in 90 countries who not only care about enjoying and retaining our diverse heritage of regional food and drink, and protecting it from globalisation, but are increasingly aware of the associated environmental issues.
Shouldn't ALL food be good, clean and fair?
Shouldn't ALL food be good, clean and fair?
"Our defence should start at the table with Slow Food. Let us rediscover the flavours and savours of regional cooking and banish the degrading effects of fast food"
From the Slow Food Manifesto, 1989
At the Norway Inn, we are fortunate to be in the centre of a mixed farming area in Cornwall that has differentiated itself by the high quality of its products, the high level of organic availability and rigorous standards of production. We have, and continue to research via suppliers and producers, more and more locally produced products where we can guarantee by inspection, production ethics and methods.
We regularly visit local farm sources and would not entertain any supplier that did not meet the high standards of animal welfare that we consider that we and our customers would expect. From the conditions under which the animals live to the use of pesticides, we assure ourselves that we are familiar with, and can vouch for, these standards to our customers. We have also assured ourselves that the slaughter houses used to kill our meat, are both local and have animal friendly attitudes. The local nature of these slaughter houses is critical because it ensures that there is a minimum level of stress placed upon the animals that long road journeys entail.
We maintain traceability on all our meat products and for our beef and steaks, we post on the bar and carvery, the farms from which the meat comes from together with the breed and date of killing for that day or week. We can also trace our lamb and this is farm assured. Our pork originates from a local rare breed herd some five miles distant. Our free range chickens and ducks are from Devon, all of which are grown and slaughtered under humane conditions. All the poultry is free from growth promotors, GM foods and antibiotics. Our eggs are free range and supplied by a farm in the same village as the Norway Inn.
We are also fortunate to be in , we believe, the best fishing areas of the country and therefore have access to the best of the local catches available each day.
We regularly visit local farm sources and would not entertain any supplier that did not meet the high standards of animal welfare that we consider that we and our customers would expect. From the conditions under which the animals live to the use of pesticides, we assure ourselves that we are familiar with, and can vouch for, these standards to our customers. We have also assured ourselves that the slaughter houses used to kill our meat, are both local and have animal friendly attitudes. The local nature of these slaughter houses is critical because it ensures that there is a minimum level of stress placed upon the animals that long road journeys entail.
We maintain traceability on all our meat products and for our beef and steaks, we post on the bar and carvery, the farms from which the meat comes from together with the breed and date of killing for that day or week. We can also trace our lamb and this is farm assured. Our pork originates from a local rare breed herd some five miles distant. Our free range chickens and ducks are from Devon, all of which are grown and slaughtered under humane conditions. All the poultry is free from growth promotors, GM foods and antibiotics. Our eggs are free range and supplied by a farm in the same village as the Norway Inn.
We are also fortunate to be in , we believe, the best fishing areas of the country and therefore have access to the best of the local catches available each day.
Welfare Food
Our free range chickens and ducks are brooded in specialist heated units, until they are 28 days old when they are moved to free range arks. Here they are allowed to roam grassy fields yet have the protection from predators and the elements in their specialist housing, for the duckling a small pond in the form of a child’s paddling pool provides an excellent watering hole and swimming pool. In wet weather it is delightful to watch the ducklings explore their paddocks for any tasty morsel with dabbling beaks. The birds are fed a low density GM free, additive and antibiotic free diet to allow slower growth, greater maturity and better flavour. Birds are reared in small flocks to reduce stress and increase freedom. A simple diet, greater maturity and a natural environment produces a happier, better tasting chicken.