{"id":3139,"date":"2010-11-03T13:02:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:02:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/?p=3139"},"modified":"2010-11-03T13:04:21","modified_gmt":"2010-11-03T17:04:21","slug":"a-step-away-from-politics-to-meat","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.northcountrypublicradio.org\/inbox\/2010\/11\/03\/a-step-away-from-politics-to-meat\/","title":{"rendered":"A step away from politics to…meat!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>While you’re all digesting your politics, here’s an interesting note for local farmers and for meat-eating locavores.\u00a0 <\/a><\/p>\n

Over the summer<\/a> I reported on the shortage<\/a> of slaughterhouses (and the knifemen who work in them<\/a>) in northern New York.<\/p>\n

It appears the market is starting to make a correction.\u00a0 On the heels of a new state-of-the-art slaughterhouse opening in Washington county<\/a>, another has opened in southern Oneida county.<\/p>\n

New York Custom Processing, LLC<\/a>, claims to be the biggest USDA-inspected, custom livestock processing facility in New York state.\u00a0 According to the press release from Cornell Cooperative Extension:<\/p>\n

The facility offers full-service processing and custom packaging of all livestock. To insure food safety, it has a high-powered carcass steam-pasteurization, chill coolers, and vacuum packing systems.<\/p>\n

The facility offers a state-of-the-art computerized tracking system for carcasses and finished meat cuts. Customers will be able to track their products with a complete breakdown of cuts and weights.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Why does this all matter?\u00a0 Because farmers wanting to raise some beef or pork can’t sell their cuts retail or at farmers markets unless it’s processed at a USDA-inspected facility.<\/p>\n

With dairy farmers desperately try to claw their way out of last year’s milk price crisis, making some money by raising some meat doesn’t hurt.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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