Farm Fresh Meat Materials

  • Agency On-Farm Slaughter Report, RV Response

    In 2008, Rural Vermont helped to pass a bill that would allow consumers to buy living livestock, which a farmer would then raise and slaughter on the farm, the meat of which could then be distributed to the consumer-owners. The bill had a delayed effectiveness date of April 15, 2009, so that the VT Agency of Agriculture could contact the USDA and confirm that this would not undercut federal law.

    You can read the VT Agency of Agriculture's report about their interaction with the USDA HERE (.pdf).

    Rural Vermont believes that the Agency failed to ask the right question in order to gain clarity about the law. Read a memo about this from Rural Vermont HERE (.doc).

  • 2008 House Ag Cmte S.322 Testimony

    House Committee on Agriculture
    Testimony and Discussion on S.322
    (all files .mp3 format)

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Meat News

Farm Fresh Meat

Farm Fresh Meat is meat that is produced from animals grown the way nature intended, processed on the farm, and sold to local customers. Many regulations put barriers between farmers and consumers, forcing both to enter the industrialized food system to sell or buy meat. Rural Vermont recently worked to break down one of these barriers. In 2007, the “Chicken Bill” was enacted into law in Vermont. It allows small-scale poultry producers to process their birds on the farm (without state or federal inspection) and sell these birds at farmers’ markets or to local restaurants. We are currently working with farmers and consumers who would like to break down more barriers for other meat products.

More materials in the "Farm Fresh Meat Materials" Section to the right.