page_title: Heritage Foods USA
section_title: No Goat Left Behind
hierarchical_section_title: Heritage Foods USA / Seasonal Projects / No Goat Left Behind
caption_attribution_description: English: No Goat Left Behind.
context_page_description: Heritage Foods USA is an American heritage meat distribution company with offices in Brooklyn, New York. It was formed in 2001 as the sales and marketing arm of Slow Food USA — a non-profit organization founded by Patrick Martins, dedicated to celebrating regional cuisines and ingredients.
  The Heritage Turkey Project, which helped double the population of heritage turkeys in the United States and upgraded the Bourbon Red turkey from “rare” to “watch” status on conservation lists, was Heritage Foods USA’s first project aimed at heritage breed preservation. In 2004, it became an independent company selling heritage breed meat to top tiered restaurants and consumers.
context_section_description: No Goat Left Behind is an effort launched in 2011 by Heritage Foods USA with the twin aim of introducing goat meat to American diners and developing a sustainable end market to support dairy farmers in the Northeast. To produce milk required for cheese making, female goats must have babies. This creates many unwanted males as a by-product of the dairy business. "In extreme cases the kids are killed at birth to unburden the farmer from caring for goats with little market value." 
  Heritage Foods USA partners with New York State and Vermont family farms to sell hundreds of goats to restaurants and home consumers throughout the month of October. The project has acquired the name “Goatober", because as a result of naturally mating goat, kids are born in the early spring, graze on pastures all summer, and are then ready for harvest in October. Thanks to James Whetlor the project has picked up steam in England and throughout Europe.
caption: No Goat Left Behind
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