| Long-term Debt [Text Block] |
12.
LONG
TERM DEBT
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2012
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2011
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At
May, long-term debt consists of:
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KeHE
Loan,(a)
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$
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770,000
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$
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770,000
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Long-Term
Loan,(b)
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3,882,000
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3,000,000
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Debt
Discount, (c)
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(99,512
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(279,620
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Total
debt
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$
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4,552,488
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$
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3,490,380
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Less
current portion
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(250,000
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(202,256
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Long
term debt
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$
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4,302,488
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$
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3,288,124
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(a)
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On
or about February 11, 2011, the Company entered
into a three-year marketing and distribution
agreement granting KeHE Distributors LLC the
exclusive rights to distribute into retail outlets
all Artisanal products with primary focus on the
Company's 16-cheese CheeseClock program. KeHE's
exclusivity is dependent upon KeHE meeting specific
minimum annual sales. Under the agreement, KeHE
earns a commission of five percent (5%) on all net
sales to accounts serviced by KeHE and may also
earn stock options upon meeting specified sales
thresholds over the term of the agreement (See
Notes to Financials, Note 10, Shareholders Equity
for details). The agreement further provides that
KeHE will loan up to $520,000 to the Company to
facilitate the purchase of inventory required for
the KeHE accounts and that KeHE will advance up to
an additional $100,000 of marketing funds to be
used for in-store demonstrations and related
marketing costs. The loan bears interest at a rate
of 3-Month LIBOR plus 5% to be paid quarterly and
is secured by the Company's accounts receivable and
inventory. For so long as any amounts remain
outstanding under the loan or KeHE maintains its
exclusive distributor status and meets its annual
minimum purchases, the Company may not incur any
debt or issue any additional common stock without
KeHE’s consent, which consent shall not be
unreasonably withheld. As of May 2011, the Company
had drawn down $520,000 of the total amount
permitted under the agreement. In May 2011, it
borrowed an additional $250,000 from KeHE to be
repaid within 60 days. For this reason, $250,000 of
the KeHE loan is reported under Notes Payable. As
an inducement for making this additional loan, the
Company modified the vesting terms of KeHe’s
4,880,000 options, which were to be earned based on
certain product purchase thresholds. Upon the
execution on May 9, 2011, of the amended Marketing
and Distribution Agreement, KeHE became fully
vested on 440,000 three year options exercisable at
$.30 a share. The fair market value of these
options, utilizing the Black Scholes model, was
$75,386. These costs were amortized over 60 days.
The remaining 4,440,000 of options to be earned for
future purchases of inventory were to become fully
vested on August 22, 2011, if the $250,000 was not
repaid. The additional funds were not repaid and
the remaining options vested. The fair market value
of these options, utilizing the Black Scholes
model, was $976,628 all of which was expensed
immediately. The principal of $770,000 is now due
in May 2014. As of May 31, 2012, the total amount
due under the KeHE Agreement including interest is
$818,194.
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(b)
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On
or about February 22, 2010, the Company entered a
loan agreement with one of its preferred
shareholders and term loan participants (the
"Lender") for a loan of $2.5 million (the "Long
Term Loan"). On specified dates since then,
the Long Term Loan has been increased by a total of
$1,000,000. The original loan was
conditional upon the Lender obtaining a first
security position on all of the Company's
assets. The loan was also conditional
upon the Company's repurchase from Lender and its
affiliate of 500,000 shares of the redeemable
convertible preferred stock held by them
collectively, repayment to the Lender of amounts
Lender had previously advanced to Borrower under
the Term Loan agreement (discussed above), and
issuance to Lender of 9,275,000 shares of the
Company's $.001 par value common stock representing
twenty percent of the Company's outstanding common
stock on a fully-diluted basis. The maturity
date of this Long Term Loan is February 2013.
As of May 31, 2012, the total amount due under the
Long Term Loan including interest is
$4,144,873.
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(c)
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A
unamortized debt discount attributed to the
Long-Term Loan as of May 31, 2012 and May 31, 2011
was $99,512 and $279,620, respectively.
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Five-Year
Maturity of Debt Schedule
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Principal
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Fiscal
2011
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1,294,000
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Fiscal
2012
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Fiscal
2013
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3,882,000
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Fiscal
2014
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-
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Fiscal
2015
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-
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Total
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5,176,000
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Such
five year maturity schedule of debt is exclusive of the
$99,512 of unamortized debt discount.
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