Hormel owns natural brand applegate despite being conventional meat giant. Yes the same Hormel Foods, the conglomerate known for Spam, Dinty Moore, and Jennie-O also bought Applegate Farms, the No. 1 brand in natural and organic prepared meats category. To understand their magnitude, Hormel is a ~130-year-old, ~$10 billion publicly traded company with products in 80% of U.S. households. The most damning issue is that Hormel's Natural Choice was shown in litigation to come from the same animals,