Mobile Slaughterhouses Help Meat Go Local
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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.
Katherine Gustafson | Posted 05.14.2012