The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse Building a Humane Chicken-Processing Unit to Strengthen Your Local Food System

by Berlow, Ali; Grandin, Temple

• ISBN13: 9781612121291
• ISBN10: 1612121292
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2013-06-04
• Publisher: Storey Publishing, LLC

Summary

If you are raising poultry for meat and lack easy access to a humane, local slaughterhouse, this guide shows you how to put together a slaughter and processing unit that will accomodate any type of poultry and can be moved from farm to farm. These units can be funded, built, and used by a community of small farmers, or you can develop one by yourself and use it as part of a business. This book covers the mechanics of constructing the unit, government regulations, the permitting process, sanitation, safety, and more.

Author Biography

Ali Berlow is the author of The Food Activist Handbook and The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse, and the co-owner of Edible Vineyard magazine. Berlow founded and served as the first executive director of Island Grown Initiative, a grassrooots nonprofit that encourages and supports a resilient and accessible local food system on Martha’s Vineyard. She is the co-host of “The Local Food Report,” a public radio program out of WCAI in Woods Hole, Massachusetts. She lives in West Tisbury, Massachusetts, and in Putney, Vermont.

Temple Grandin is the author of the New York Times bestsellers Animals in Translation and Animals Make Us Human, as well as Thinking in Pictures, Humane Livestock Handling, Improving Animal Welfare, and The Autistic Brain. Dr. Grandin’s humane livestock facility designs have been adopted all over the world, and she is a consultant on animal welfare to several segments of the fast food industry. Her work has been featured on NPR, 60 Minutes, and The Today Show and in the New York Times and Time and Discover magazines. The story of her life was made into an Emmy Award-winning HBO movie titled Temple Grandin. Dr. Grandin is a Professor of Animal Science at Colorado State University.

Table of Contents

Foreword by Temple Grandin

Preface

Cookbook for the Journey - Thank You

 

Introduction

How and Why We Began - Postcard from an Island - A Cook's Wishbones

 

Start Here, Get Organized

Beginning Where You Are - Ways of Becoming - Gathering the Players - Why Chicken - Crossing Cultures, Earning Trust

 

Money In and Money Out

Figuring Out Finances - Finding Funding - Trojan Units - The Consolidation of Slaughterhouses

 

Nuts, Bolts, and Values

Coming to Terms: A Vocabulary of Values - Small Really Is Beautiful - Mobile Units Across the Continent - Asunder - What You Will Need

 

Training the Chicken Crew

The Crew's First Training: Live and Local - Suggested BoH Guide for Chicken Slaughter Inspection - Almost Kosher - Blood and Humanity

 

Education, Marketing, and Outreach

Education - Marketing - Outreach - Local Grocer + Local Farmer = The True Cost of Food - Public Health and Backyard Growers

 

The Path to a Permit

Permit Catch-22's - We Raise Permit #417's Flag - Exemptions - The DPH's Reason For Being - Cease and Desist

 

The Big Day Of

The Farmer's To-Do List - Advice to a Farmer from the Chicken Crew - Advice to a Farmer from a Local Board of Health Agent - Gray Water Awareness - How Many Chickens in a Day? - When Things Happen: Advice from an Advocate - Custom Chicken

 

Now Cook Up That Lovely Bird

Making the Most of It - Starting with the Whole Bird - Taking Stock - Breaking Down and Deboning a Chicken - It's Offal - Comfort Food

 

Appendix

Farmer's Checklist for Day Of - Farmer Survey Suggestions

 

Resources

Index