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But it's taste that turned Campbell
from a businessman almost to a
crusader. Lamb has suffered in
comparison to other meats, he says,
generally because people have had a
bad experience with the meat
somewhere in the past.
The best test for lamb is getting
kids to eat it, he says. He'd served
New Zealand lamb to his own kids
and they didn't like it. When he
served some Texel-sired lamb he had
to persuade them to try it by saying
they didn't have to finish it if they
didn't like it. They ended up eating
everything up and cleaning up the
platter.
His customers also gave the
product a vote of confidence.
"Anybody we've sold lamb to said
they couldn't believe how good it
tasted," Campbell says.
More recently he had been
supplying an abattoir that
used the halaal slaughtering
process to supply the Muslim market
in London. The processor
complained the price was too high
but Campbell wouldn't pack down
and lost the customer. After one
week the packer was back because of
complaints from his customers that
the quality of meat was not as good
as they were used to.
With all the good word about the
taste of their product, Campbell
thought it was time for action.
"We were so happy with the Iamb
we've been producing we figured
someone would brand it," he says.
And so jumping the gun and
copying from the Certified Angus
program in beef, he has patented the
Certified Texel Lamb brand for
Canada. For the time being, all the
lambs for the program come from his
own farm but he plans to document
the protocols and eventually offer
other farmers the chance to join the
program. Specifications will include
use of a purebred Texel sire, a
feeding program which contains only
vegetable proteins and management
requirements including facilities that
meet a certain standard.
Currently he's working with an
abattoir to do the processing while he
builds clientele. He's been
investigating the restaurant trade with
some chains.
His plan, however, is to do his
own processing and he already has