How come nobodys talking about this . It would change the dynamics of our meat supply chain if the custom meat lockers could sell meat or better yet if you could buy it fresh from the farm .

Now would be the best opportunity to get the laws changed to help the small processors compete .

I agree -- there are alot of things in all business areas that could succeed with deregulation to some degree. What do you think pushed alot of companies out of country.

#defundusda

Agreed

Yep, I support it

Not just meat. I'd love to be able to buy fresh milk from the farm.

The meat industry was regulated for a reason.
To keep diseased animals out of the food chain and to ensure pathogens dont make thousands of people sick-way worse than covid.Salmonella,Staphylococcus,E-coli-Listeria and a bunch of others that can be deadly and can kill a lot of people.

nonsense boco. that is the lie they told everybody to justify giving the food industry to corporations. independent people are much harder to intimidate into stupid stuff like gun control, common core math, seat belt laws, and building permits

There have been outbreaks that kill people.
If they de regulate large processing facilities you will see what happens.

Yep. straight out of government inspected big 6000 head a week processing plants

And caught and controlled.Deregulate you will have a nightmare.

Mark, I agree. I thought it was a good idea 20 years ago. Just emailed my congresswoman and senators

I don't think anyone is in favor of making unsanitary conditions, just allowing places to sell to whom they choose.

I agree with Boco on this one.

Asking for trouble

You already can sell to who ever you want it just has to be alive when sold and then the buyer can have it processed. By selling live the buyer can then determine the health of the animal before slaughter. I have worked custom plants and a small pig plant ( 500 head a day) and been in lots of others over the years and can tell you there are some state licensed places I wouldn't eat anything that came from there. We've had lots killed on the ranches by mobile butchers and have killed a bunch ourselves and I think more local custom shops is a great idea but I sure wouldn't trust some of the people out there to sell a clean safe product.

so by regulating it to keep 8 producers in the business using as much disposable labor as possible an 90% of the meat passes through these same 8 plants when one plant sends ecoli laden meat out it effects millions of people.

it's a catch 22

food insecurity , a few places so that if one gets ecoli it feeds it to millions

local butchers can process your animals for you but they can't be sold to public , if the local butcher who turns out very high quality and knows what a sick animal looks like is going to sell it only from his shop , he will make sure it is of excellent quality , because his name is on it.

should a place be bad and sell bad meat it will be out of business in no time and have only maybe made a few hundred sick not tens of thousands.

every time there is a ecoil scare the food industry uses it to make regulations harder on the small producer that is almost never the cause of the issue.

Very good points Pete.

Fear of lawsuits will keep them inline. This isn't The Jungle anymore.

If it was such a problem for all of the custom processors to turn out a safe product then why haven't we had more deaths/ outbreaks. With the small shops that are doing it now but aren't usda inspected we should be hearing about alot more problems. I have one local that is custom butcher/ cutting about 20 head of whatever per week and have used him for pigs and cows (usually butcher everything myself) . Why can I not buy a beef from him? Or have him process one for me to sell the meat? That is what makes no sense.