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By Susan Moran SAGUACHE, Colo. ? As he drove his truck into the family ranch on a recent sunny morning, Mel Coleman Jr. put on his Stetson hat and greeted his Uncle Jim, who runs the ranch. In a pasture behind the house, five horses hovered placidly and several black Angus cows ambled up to a salt station. Mr. Coleman, 55, spoke wistfully of his days branding and moving cattle on the ranch his ancestors started in 1875. The sprawling ranch, in the high-desert San Luis Valley about 180 miles southwest of Denver, is the birthplace of Coleman Natural Foods, founded by his late father, Mel Coleman Sr., in 1979 under a different name. From the start, his father sold “natural” beef ? something alien to most shoppers and meat producers back then. On a sales trip in the early 1980’s, his father camped out in a rented car to save money as he made his pitch to grocers. His cows, he said, were not given antibiotics and growth hormones like the big producers’ cattle were, and he fed them a vegetarian diet. It took the elder Coleman years to win converts, not only among retailers but also among consumers […]

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