Wall Street Journal: Have Knife, Will Travel: A Slaughterhouse on Wheels
How a group of Washington farmers decided that instead of hauling their animals to a slaughterhouse over 150 miles away, they would bring it to them.
Lauren Etter writes for The Wall Street Journal about how a group of Washington farmers decided that instead of hauling their animals to a slaughterhouse over 150 miles away, they would bring a mobile slaughterhouse to them. This is one solution for allowing local meat producers to better get their goods to market while keeping the process local, a beneficial arrangement as "[f]ederal rules and consolidation of the nation's meatpacking industry have made it increasingly costly and cumbersome for small farmers to bring their animals to slaughter."
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