In 1967 Congress passed the Wholesome Meat Act, Public Law 90-201, amending the Federal Meat Inspection Act (FMIA). The act expanded the federal government’s authority over meat slaughter and processing to intrastate commerce but did create exemptions from the requirement that an inspector be present when slaughtering is taking place. The Wholesome Meat Act allowed the “uninspected” slaughter of meat animals at a custom facility as long as the owner…
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A Slaughter Hazard Analysis
Over the last four months, we discussed Hazard Analysis and Critical Control Point (HACCP) terms, hazard analysis requirements, flowchart, and food safety hazards. Let’s put those discussions to work and conduct a 9 Code of Federal Regulations (CFR) 417.2(a) hazard analysis for livestock and poultry slaughter…
Food Safety Hazards
Generating a list of potential food safety hazards is easy. But human beings make determinations and lists of food safety hazards useless if you can’t determine which food safety hazards are reasonably likely to occur in your production process. Many lists exist, but let’s consider 9 CFR 417.2(a)(3), which is as close to a regulatory list….
2020 Accomplishments
This has been quite the year, to say the least! We would like to share with you the many achievements we have made in the food freedom movement. It gives us great joy to continue to be involved in this movement and to fight for farmers, artisanal producers, homesteaders and consumers across the country.
Remedy for Slaughterhouse Logjam?
Access to slaughterhouses has been poor for small livestock producers in most of the country for many years now but has become considerably worse since the onset of the COVID-19 crisis. USDA-inspected slaughterhouses have since last spring been booking customers as far out as 2022. Many custom slaughterhouses are now booking well into 2021. One possible answer for the slaughterhouse…