Price of meat almost doubled here...do you folks have a meat processor nearby?

[rswyan]

More protein ...

 

[Jstpssng]

Adding Custom Meat Processors to Maine's Food Supply Chain Aims to Ease Bottlenecks

The Maine DACF Meat and Poultry Inspection (MMPI) program is responding to the increased demand for local meat during the COVID-19 pandemic by easing a processing bottleneck in the food supply chain. MMPI is authorizing 90-day grants of inspection to three Maine-based custom slaughter operations, starting June 1.

The temporary authorizations apply to Hatch's Custom Meat Cutting in Crystal; Watson's Custom Butcher Shop in Etna; and Blake's Slaughtering and Custom Cut Meats in Alexander. Hatch's and Blake's will be the first inspected livestock slaughterhouses in Aroostook and Washington Counties.

I just got the notice above in my news feed from our Dept of Agriculture and Forestry. Adding Three Custom Meat Processors to Maine's Food Supply Chain Aims to Ease Bottlenecks

 

[Molalla1]

This is exactly why I started this thread. I believe there is room for a "CO-OP" type processing/meat butcher shop in most areas.



A guy I worked with and his wife took a long summer "work" trip to Alaska, and they worked at a halibut processing plant. He said he would NEVER EAT commercially processed halibut. He said it could be so full of worms and they'd still pack it up for sale.

That's where fishing for your own comes into play . . .

 

[Molalla1]

More protein ...

:thumbsup: . . . . (how ya been rswyan?)

 

[rswyan]

That's where fishing for your own comes into play . . .

Who’s fishing ultimately has little bearing on whether worms are present or not.

Inspecting what you’re going eat as you prepare it and before you cook it, is a much better bet if one wants to avoid consuming “organic contaminates” ...

 

[Sawyer Rob]

I have fished/caught a lot of halibut, the only halibut I ever saw with worms, were the really huge ones, ones way over 200 pounds.

I've caught them over 100 pounds and no worms.

SR

 

[Molalla1]

I have fished/caught a lot of halibut, the only halibut I ever saw with worms, were the really huge ones, ones way over 200 pounds.

I've cause them over 100 pounds and no worms.

SR

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[rswyan]

I have fished/caught a lot of halibut, the only halibut I ever saw with worms, were the really huge ones, ones way over 200 pounds.

I've cause them over 100 pounds and no worms.

SR

Different species but even candling on a light table apparently isn’t terribly effective method for picking out worms ...

Low Detection Efficiency of Candling as a Commonly Recommended Inspection Method for Nematode Larvae in the Flesh of Pelagic Fish - PubMed

 

[/pine]

Different species but even candling on a light table apparently isn稚 terribly effective method for picking out worms ...

Low Detection Efficiency of Candling as a Commonly Recommended Inspection Method for Nematode Larvae in the Flesh of Pelagic Fish - PubMed

Halibut are NOT a pelagic species...duh!

Back lighting is an excellent method for spotting worms in most bottom fish...especially snappers and groupers etc...

 

[rswyan]

Halibut are NOT a pelagic species...duh!

No kidding ?