I have been mulling over our company tag line, “Little Company with a Big Conscience”, and was asking what that might mean to other people. What was it that made us a better choice for the environment then one of the big sticky brands?

Well, we don’t have any HFCS in our sauces, which means we aren’t assisting in the largest carbon producing crop on the planet. Think about it, corn is the largest crop on the planet, using the most equipment to plant and harvest and the most chemicals to make it grow.

As a way to ensure diversity in crops, nature has worked out a program that requires different crops to grow in areas to make sure that no one element is decimated to the point that it makes the land barren. Man has taken upon him/herself to mess with nature. We have found that corn (and soybeans) are REALLY EASY to grow and you can plant a lot of it in a small area. The only problem with this is that these are crops that use LOTS of nitrogen and returns none to the ground. So, man has to spray nitrogen back on the fields to ensure the corn will grow.

We know a lot more about what 80 million acres of corn is doing to the health of our environment: serious and lasting damage. Modern corn hybrids are the greediest of plants, demanding more nitrogen fertilizer than any other crop. Corn requires more pesticide than any other food crop. Runoff from these chemicals finds its way into the groundwater and, in the Midwestern corn belt, into the Mississippi River, which carries it to the Gulf of Mexico, where it has already killed off marine life in a 12,000-square-mile area.

To produce the chemicals we apply to our cornfields takes vast amounts of oil and natural gas. (Nitrogen fertilizer is made from natural gas, pesticides from oil.) America’s corn crop might look like a sustainable, solar-powered system for producing food, but it is actually a huge, inefficient, polluting machine that guzzles fossil fuel—a half a gallon of it for every bushel. - Michael Polan

So by not using any corn products at all in our sauces we are helping keep that corn beast at bay.

Not to mention, our labels are post recycled material, our bottles are recyclable, and all of our shipping materials are recycled from other shipments so as to not add more waste into the already clogged trash stream.

If you’d like to help us help the planet and get our little company a bit further off the ground then help out in our Kickstarter program. You can get more information here. Kickstarter.com