The founder – no office jockey: - As founder of Australian Certified Humane, Alisdair Robertson has covered some ground, and the concept of ACH has developed over several decades, drawing on a range of experiences dating right back to when he was a boy. 

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Some of Alisdair’s earliest memories involved his father trapping wild goats at Arkaroola (now a private-wildlife reserve) in remote South Australia in the late 1960s. On his Mother’s side his family’s association with farming animals commercially dates back to 1906 with his Great Grandfather establishing a dairy in the Corop district of North Western Victoria, where there are still cousin’s involved in dairying to this day.

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Alisdair’s father managed sheep and cattle properties across all the mainland states and territories in Australia except WA and the ACT. After finishing school, Alisdair did his apprenticeship as a butcher, in the process spending years operating a slaughterhouse and piggery.

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Alisdair owned and operated regional butcher shops before owning shops in inner-city Brisbane, a fine-dining restaurant in the Brisbane CBD, then went on to manage a major cattle property on Cape York Peninsula (Strathburn Station).

 

Alisdair has been directly involved in many areas of animal raising, handling, transportation, meat processing, wholesaling and retailing. As a retailer, he discovered the challenges involved in securing a consistent supply of good product from wholesalers, products that have the sort of brand integrity that - as a human and as a businessperson - you would be comfortable standing behind. As a proud father to two, he has also discovered the imperative of being able to source a product that is as unadulterated and wholesome as that which he knew as a boy.

 

From all of this, and half a century of passion for grass fed meat, the Australian Certified Humane story was borne.