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The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse
Building a Humane Chicken-Processing Unit to Strengthen Your Local Food System
Ali Berlow(0)
About
If you're raising poultry for meat and lack easy access to a humane slaughterhouse, a mobile slaughter and processing unit may be the solution. Ali Berlow shows you how to build a unit that accommodates all types of poultry and can easily be moved to any location, making it a great cooperative investment for a community of small-scale farmers. Covering the mechanics of construction, sanitation, safety, and permitting processes, this guide shows you how a mobile slaughterhouse can make your poultry operation more self-sufficient. Ali Berlow offers a step-by-step guide to building a mobile poultry slaughterhouse that can serve communities and small farmers.
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.
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 Consumers are hungry for fresh, locally raised poultry, but small-scale chicken farmers often find themselves with few good slaughtering options. Community and food activist Ali Berlow provides a solution, demonstrating how to bring a modular, affordable slaughtering facility right to the farm.
Safe, clean, and humane, mobile poultry slaughterhouses minimize the stress and expense of transporting live animals, and they are designed to be used by small family farm communi
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.
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 Consumers are hungry for fresh, locally raised poultry, but small-scale chicken farmers often find themselves with few good slaughtering options. Community and food activist Ali Berlow provides a solution, demonstrating how to bring a modular, affordable slaughtering facility right to the farm.
Safe, clean, and humane, mobile poultry slaughterhouses minimize the stress and expense of transporting live animals, and they are designed to be used by small family farm communi