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How many of you are cattle ranchers - & cattle farmers ?
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<blockquote data-quote="birdiemc" data-source="post: 2002116" data-attributes="member: 29632"><p>The issue of ranchers processing their own cattle is nothing to do with whether they can own both operations or not, it's a matter of the gov overregulation. In order to sell to the public the animal must be butchered in a USDA inspected facility and the guidelines to set up such an operation are cost prohibitive for a small operation that might only serve the ranchers in a small community. All the regulation probably started out with the right spirit, the whole Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle got the government interested in ensuring safety and all that, but like anything the government touches they screwed it up so bad you have to run 30,000 head a day to make it worth it (maybe a bit of exaggeration but you get the point) my boss used to work in the meat industry and he always tells a story about taking his folks over to see the "big plant" any time they got to crying about being overworked, says that plant had 2 lines that ran several thousand hogs each per day, for some reason the number 15,000 sticks in my mind.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="birdiemc, post: 2002116, member: 29632"] The issue of ranchers processing their own cattle is nothing to do with whether they can own both operations or not, it's a matter of the gov overregulation. In order to sell to the public the animal must be butchered in a USDA inspected facility and the guidelines to set up such an operation are cost prohibitive for a small operation that might only serve the ranchers in a small community. All the regulation probably started out with the right spirit, the whole Upton Sinclair's book The Jungle got the government interested in ensuring safety and all that, but like anything the government touches they screwed it up so bad you have to run 30,000 head a day to make it worth it (maybe a bit of exaggeration but you get the point) my boss used to work in the meat industry and he always tells a story about taking his folks over to see the "big plant" any time they got to crying about being overworked, says that plant had 2 lines that ran several thousand hogs each per day, for some reason the number 15,000 sticks in my mind. [/QUOTE]
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