Demand has increased at small meat processors and butchers, as the country's industrial-scale meatpacking facilities have become coronavirus hotspots and been forced to close or reduce their output.
"I had never cut a steak or killed an animal in my life," he said. "I was an idiot. I didn't know what I didn't know." Trevor Butterfield, rancher and co-owner of Butterfield Beef near Atkinson, Nebraska, 160 miles east, would typically process about 10-percent of his herd at the local meat locker, and sell the rest to a larger industrialized meatpacking plant. But like many other ranchers and farmers right now, Butterfield hasn't been able to secure a bid on his finished cattle from the larger facilities.
Workers leave the Tyson Foods pork processing plant in Logansport, Ind., Thursday, May 7, 2020. The plant was expected to reopen Thursday after closing on April 25 after nearly 900 employees tested positive for the coronavirus.Since the pandemic began, Wingebach has hired four new employees—luring one from the Texas oil fields—and would ideally hire dozens more, he says, if his neck of the Sandhills had anything close to adequate housing.
Still, small processors often seem an attractive substitute for those who have been shocked by shortages and long lines at the supermarket. "It's a tough industry to be in, and there were a lot of years where there was no next generation that wanted to be a part of it," Young said. "And so a lot of butchers started closing the doors because they either couldn't sell it or didn't have family members to take it over."
If Americans have learned anything from this crisis, it’s that we don’t need to eat dead animals to be healthy!
Great news!! Sick of those meat farms.
Tyson Foods needs some competition.
Literally had zero trouble finding any meat or chicken. Zero.
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