New Hampshire wants to restore the right of farmers to raise animals to slaughter, to process meat, and to sell directly to consumers. It could save the family farm.
This greatly advances the “Farm to Table” movement. I think this “ less is more” would greatly enhance the traceability of an outbreak of any food borne buggers(joke) that get into your stomach. Because as we all know the government inspectors have been derelict in there duties.
Let’s get back to the foundations of our country. Capitalism ought to be practiced at all levels in our economy. Override the veto. Bring back American family farms, traditions and the heart of our nation.
It would restore a prior right that was removed in 1967 by the wholesome meat act. That right allowed states to regulate the sale of meat grown processed and sold within their own state.
Don’t you hate it when ignorant people call someone else a liar because they don’t know the subject?
The 1967 Wholesome Meat Act permitted slaughter and processing of livestock from ones own farm for use by that household - not for sale. The meat covered by the exemption was required to be for the owner's use and, under the regulations, marked “Not for Sale.”
Under the 1938 amendments to the Federal Meat Inspection Act, Congress specifically created a statutory “farmer” exemption, allowing some local sale (even interstate, I think), but not at the scale of what is now proposed. I didn't opine on the proposal itself - just on Jeffy's tendency to mischaracterize and misrepresent.
You prey on peoples ignorance to create and cultivate suspicion and distrust, for your reasons. "Evidence emerges that a placebo or less toxic COVID vaccine may have been used in some states or for some politicians"
"Barry White" - Unusually low AE reporting in certain highly vaccinated areas is evidence that politicians or insiders may have received saline injections or less toxic vaccine lots rather than the public vaccine
"Evidence" from New Zealand's CARM and Medsafe - but no consideration of ecological fallacy --- Then jumping to USA and AERS ---- > "politicians got saline"
But ignore the broader vaccine trial and surveillance data. Populations don't differ by geography, denominators don't exist, it's all a plot, they're out to get you ...
I’m hoping that this passes in New Hampshire and it starts to trend throughout the country! When I was a child, my paternal grandfather, owned a grocery store in a small town in Louisiana. The store contained a meat market and my father worked for him as a butcher. My grandfather raised his own beef on land he owned in the country and slaughtered the cattle, processed the meat, and sold it at the meat market in the store. My grandfather gifted my father with an acre of land located not far from the slaughter house and that’s where we lived. When my dad slaughtered cattle, my mother would walk us to the slaughter house so we could pick the meat that we wanted to eat for supper that night, plus she would get other cuts she wanted to cook throughout the week. Freshly slaughtered beef! Various cuts of beef were sold in-store. Sides of beef hung in the big refrigerated cooler. My dad cut roasts, round steaks, tenderloins, steaks, etc., as needed. I don’t recall that anyone ever got sick or died from eating this farm-raised, grass fed, natural beef. Then the government came in and there was no longer any raising and slaughtering of cattle, no more selling the meat. It had to be purchased from a centralized, government-inspected slaughterhouse for resale at the meat market; the government started coming in and inspecting the meat market, as well. By that time, my grandfather retired and my father took over the store. I was too young to know what hardship that may have caused my dad, but I’m sure there was extra cost involved causing meat prices to go up. But, I got to know what it was like to eat meat that came from a source that we knew was natural - we KNEW where the beef came from, how it was raised, slaughtered. It would be great if the independent meat producer could happen again. Hopefully, New Hampshire becomes the catalyst for nation-wide change.
Thanks for sharing your story of your father and grandfather raising and processing and selling meat. It makes so much sense to me to do it without government interference. Prayers for New Hampshire and the whole country.
I strongly support the efforts of Joel Salatin and other regenerative farmers nationwide to restore the right to raise, process and sell free range, grass-fed, organic beef, chickens, pigs and other farm animals without bureaucratic government interference!
3949 "small" farms in NH. 3261 (82.6%) were family farms under the USDA ownership definition. <1000 with cattle/calves, 617 with hogs/pigs, 506 with sheep/lambs, plus poultry, goats, horses, etc.
It would provide family farms, a guarantee that they would be able to sell the meat of their animals, even if they can’t get into a USDA slaughterhouse. That guarantee enables them to grow their herd.
It also allows them to charge retail prices rather than wholesale prices, which are a fraction of retail, making the growing of livestock economic again
The article states more than once this is only a step in the right direction. Maybe it is the optimism you object to? The insistence on complete & total solutions is how regulatory & monopoly control gets established in the first place. Real improvement is always local & small scale.
Freedom from regulatory agencies is not the same as opposition to regulation. Since federal regulatory agencies are largely captured by large corporations freedom from these agencies is essentially freedom from the control of corporate monopolies. It would still be helpful to have true regulation, done by independent regulatory bodies where the interests of the small farmer, the food producer, and the consumer were all represented adequately. Such bodies do already exist in some industries, and the model could and probably should be exported to those industries which are subject to federally assisted corporate monopoly control. First and foremost amongst these is farming.
Praying!!!! Hope they can do this with no limits!!! We would not have food without the farmers!
That same right should be extended to commercial fishermen and to farmers in general for all products, including raw milk.
This greatly advances the “Farm to Table” movement. I think this “ less is more” would greatly enhance the traceability of an outbreak of any food borne buggers(joke) that get into your stomach. Because as we all know the government inspectors have been derelict in there duties.
Let’s get back to the foundations of our country. Capitalism ought to be practiced at all levels in our economy. Override the veto. Bring back American family farms, traditions and the heart of our nation.
It would restore a prior right that was removed in 1967 by the wholesome meat act. That right allowed states to regulate the sale of meat grown processed and sold within their own state.
Don’t you hate it when ignorant people call someone else a liar because they don’t know the subject?
The 1967 Wholesome Meat Act permitted slaughter and processing of livestock from ones own farm for use by that household - not for sale. The meat covered by the exemption was required to be for the owner's use and, under the regulations, marked “Not for Sale.”
Under the 1938 amendments to the Federal Meat Inspection Act, Congress specifically created a statutory “farmer” exemption, allowing some local sale (even interstate, I think), but not at the scale of what is now proposed. I didn't opine on the proposal itself - just on Jeffy's tendency to mischaracterize and misrepresent.
Exactly
You prey on peoples ignorance to create and cultivate suspicion and distrust, for your reasons. "Evidence emerges that a placebo or less toxic COVID vaccine may have been used in some states or for some politicians"
"Barry White" - Unusually low AE reporting in certain highly vaccinated areas is evidence that politicians or insiders may have received saline injections or less toxic vaccine lots rather than the public vaccine
"Evidence" from New Zealand's CARM and Medsafe - but no consideration of ecological fallacy --- Then jumping to USA and AERS ---- > "politicians got saline"
But ignore the broader vaccine trial and surveillance data. Populations don't differ by geography, denominators don't exist, it's all a plot, they're out to get you ...
Tell us about turbo cancers and VAERS-something, and WEF and "they knew."
Tell us where you developed your sarcasm. Was it an undergraduate program or just online?
New York Jew, so nature plus nurture.
I’m hoping that this passes in New Hampshire and it starts to trend throughout the country! When I was a child, my paternal grandfather, owned a grocery store in a small town in Louisiana. The store contained a meat market and my father worked for him as a butcher. My grandfather raised his own beef on land he owned in the country and slaughtered the cattle, processed the meat, and sold it at the meat market in the store. My grandfather gifted my father with an acre of land located not far from the slaughter house and that’s where we lived. When my dad slaughtered cattle, my mother would walk us to the slaughter house so we could pick the meat that we wanted to eat for supper that night, plus she would get other cuts she wanted to cook throughout the week. Freshly slaughtered beef! Various cuts of beef were sold in-store. Sides of beef hung in the big refrigerated cooler. My dad cut roasts, round steaks, tenderloins, steaks, etc., as needed. I don’t recall that anyone ever got sick or died from eating this farm-raised, grass fed, natural beef. Then the government came in and there was no longer any raising and slaughtering of cattle, no more selling the meat. It had to be purchased from a centralized, government-inspected slaughterhouse for resale at the meat market; the government started coming in and inspecting the meat market, as well. By that time, my grandfather retired and my father took over the store. I was too young to know what hardship that may have caused my dad, but I’m sure there was extra cost involved causing meat prices to go up. But, I got to know what it was like to eat meat that came from a source that we knew was natural - we KNEW where the beef came from, how it was raised, slaughtered. It would be great if the independent meat producer could happen again. Hopefully, New Hampshire becomes the catalyst for nation-wide change.
Thanks for sharing your story of your father and grandfather raising and processing and selling meat. It makes so much sense to me to do it without government interference. Prayers for New Hampshire and the whole country.
Fake meat needs to be labeled, also... Now!
NH HB 396....Root Causes has a comment, but now is hidden. Why? What happened to free speech? The whole thing makes me sick!
Why not?! Let's do it
Have to love New Hampshire. Makes me wish I lived there.
As a NH resident, I would use this for sure.
I strongly support the efforts of Joel Salatin and other regenerative farmers nationwide to restore the right to raise, process and sell free range, grass-fed, organic beef, chickens, pigs and other farm animals without bureaucratic government interference!
3949 "small" farms in NH. 3261 (82.6%) were family farms under the USDA ownership definition. <1000 with cattle/calves, 617 with hogs/pigs, 506 with sheep/lambs, plus poultry, goats, horses, etc.
How will that "save the family farm?"
It would provide family farms, a guarantee that they would be able to sell the meat of their animals, even if they can’t get into a USDA slaughterhouse. That guarantee enables them to grow their herd.
It also allows them to charge retail prices rather than wholesale prices, which are a fraction of retail, making the growing of livestock economic again
The article states more than once this is only a step in the right direction. Maybe it is the optimism you object to? The insistence on complete & total solutions is how regulatory & monopoly control gets established in the first place. Real improvement is always local & small scale.
Ave the New Hampshire family farm by allowing livestock butchering and processing? Numbers please.
The maximum number that would be locally sold under HB 396 is three cows per month or five pigs per month or 10 sheep or goats.
Freedom from regulatory agencies is not the same as opposition to regulation. Since federal regulatory agencies are largely captured by large corporations freedom from these agencies is essentially freedom from the control of corporate monopolies. It would still be helpful to have true regulation, done by independent regulatory bodies where the interests of the small farmer, the food producer, and the consumer were all represented adequately. Such bodies do already exist in some industries, and the model could and probably should be exported to those industries which are subject to federally assisted corporate monopoly control. First and foremost amongst these is farming.