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24 THE RURAL VOICE
Already the situation is serious for
farmers who have small scale poultry
operations. Pullen said there are only
two inspected poultry plants within
40-60 miles from his farm. They're
so busy that generally you have to
book your processing spot a year
before your chick even hatch, he
said. For someone like him who
produces range -fed birds, its not
always possible to predict so far in
advance when birds will be ready for
processing, he said.
Even mainstream farmers face
problems, as illustrated by Pat
Down when she spoke at the
Huron MPs meeting and expressed
concern about what could be done
with an animal with a broken leg if
there were no local abattoirs to rush
the animal too.
For bison, elk and deer producers,
the alternatives are even bleaker. Dr.
Lyle Renecker who, with his wife
Teresa operates an elk farm near
Stratford, said abattoirs are one of
the requirements in moving meat
from farm to plate. For producers of
alternative livestock, plants with
flexibility are needed, he said. Large
federally -inspected plants generally
handle just one species.
Eleanor Kane from The Old Prune
Restaurant in Stratford and the
Stratford Chefs School stressed the
need for locally -connected foods.
Chefs at the school are sent out to
local farms to learn more about food
production and handling, she said,
often coming back with product
which they prepare for their
colleagues.
The French wine industry is based
on the idea that each wine reveals the
characteristics of the land it was
grown on, Kane said. People feel the
same way about food. "The customer
wants to know the stream from which
that trout comes. They want to know
the animal (they're eating) has had
the benefit of grazing on grass."
And they will pay for it, Kane
maintained. "When we in our
restaurant put on the menu `locally
raised' the item sells out the door.
"It is for the beauty of the product,
(that people pay)— the
characteristics that are linked to that
piece of land. "We're marketing that
product in a way that touches the
heart."
So if many of today's abattoirs
can't meet tightening standards, what