Mobile Slaughterhouses Help Meat Go Local
Katherine Gustafson
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Posted 07.14.2012
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The meat industry, like much else in U.S. agriculture, has consolidated rapidly over the last half-century. Four giant companies produced 83.5 percent of U.S. beef as of 2007. It is in this context that the mobile slaughterhouse makes local slaughter available and affordable to small farmers.
