Viande Richelieu Meat Inc. is a privately owned Canadian meat processing company. It is headquartered in Quebec, Canada and specializes in processing horse meat, elk meat and bison meat.
History
Viande Richelieu Meat was established in 1986. Since its founding, it has been engaged in breeding bison, horses, and cows, and then processing the meats of these animals. First and foremost of the company’s mission is to be able to provide high-quality meats to its consumers.
In order to produce high-quality products, the company implements a strict tracking program that monitors the condition of the animals from the farm, to the condition of the products when they are on store shelves. The company’s facilities are all HACCP-certified, ensuring their customer that all health, safety measures and control methods are implemented and that what the company offers is a totally safe and high-quality product. Additionally, Viande Richelieu’s products conform to the Canadian, Japanese, Russian, European and Swiss certification standards.
Viande Richelieu Meat Inc. has its headquarters in Maasueville, St. Hyacinthe, Quebec. This is also the location of their horse slaughtering and processing facility. The horses come from auctions held in North America and are subject to strict screening and ranking tests, according to the company’s specifications.
The company’s Bouvry Export division is located in FortMacLeod, in the southern part of Calgary, Alberta. The company’s facility in this location is where the bison, beef and elk are slaughtered and processed. The bison and elk breeding stock also comes from this area/province.
The company’s distribution and marketing division is located just outside of Paris, France, near Paris-Charles de Gaulle airport. This location allows the company to distribute and receive products throughout Europe. Products made by Viande Richelieu Meat are imported everyday from Canada and are transported by plane.
As for its products, horsemeat is promoted by the company because of its abundant amount of protein, zinc and vitamin B12. It is also a meat that is very tender and rich in iron. The company promotes elk meat because it is also protein-rich, while at the same time contains low amounts of fat and cholesterol. Bison meat is found to be low in fat, but rich in protein. It is also considered non-allergenic.
Headquarters: Massueville,Quebec
Ownership Type: Private
Employees: Information not available
Geography:Canada
Demography: Foodservice operators
Brands/Banners
Viande Richelieu
Important links
Viande Richelieu Meat Corporate Home Page
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Viande Richelieu Meat Contact Information
This is out of line, totally out there to the point of extinction to the person who owns this business and outrageously gross! Horses are a pride and joy, and innocent babies by all means. Stop this insanity now! You don’t even kill them humanely! I’ve watched videos and you jab them once in the head with a probe that doesn’t kill them, walk away watching them suffer, as if it’s on purpose, for a long period of time and then do this process over, and over again because it doesn’t work until after so many times they go brain dead! Then what do you do? I have to look into it more, but I’m so overwhelmed by this time of tragedy that I don’t know where to begin! How could you do this to the most sweet and innocent creature and friend a person could ever have while hearing them whiney for their life because they adore it so much? It’s obvious because it glows in their disposition! How could this be happening?
http://www.inspection.gc.ca/about-the-cfia/newsroom/food-recall-warnings/complete-listing/2017-02-24-r11199/eng/1488313276220/1488313278766
Horses are also slaughtered @ Bouvry Exports in LaCombe AB. This is not mentioned above in your company description. I have seen & shared on social media the investigation Animals Angels of Switzerland did @ Bouvry. You should not be allowed to continue to process horses.
you are correct…horse meat is filled with drugs.
Cher compagnie Richelieu, J’ai fait des recherches sur Internet pour trouver le BISON
DE MASSUEVILLE Je n’ai trouve que elevage de chien a Massueville intriguant……
Je n’ai pas vu de Certification a propos de votre Bison
J’aimerais avoir plus d’informations cela m’intrigue beaucoup et apparament votre viande viendrait de d’autres pays non conforme a nos lois
J’aime bien m’alimenter pour rester en SANTE Vous etes responsable de nos SANTES Nous vous faisons confiance payer un peu plus cher cela ne Nous derange pas d’abord que c’est de la QUALITE DE VIANDE…..
Merci pour Votre attention que Vous porterez a mon egard…… Danielle
How does Viande Richelieu Meat Inc. manage to “implement a strict tracking program that monitors the condition of the animals from the farm to the store shelves”, when “The horses that are slaughtered come from auctions held in North America” ? How ?
I was just wondering if you could elaborate on the methodology of your screening and ranking tests performed on the horses and what this implies in terms of “quality”. Moreover, it is widely known that you are definitely not conforming to EU standards.
In your description of your horse meat you forgot to mention that it is laced with bute, dewormers, clenbuterol and other carcinogenic agents prohibited in the human food chain.
I believe you should add this to the list of ingredients to make sure that your customers know that they are getting everything they pay for, and more.