The Rural Voice, 2003-07, Page 29are the possibilities of building new
ones?
Burdick explains that plans for a
new plant must be submitted to
OMAF before it is even begun.
Officials will go over the plans from
the ground up, from plumbing to kill
floor to environmental concerns.
Once the plans have been approved
construction can start.
Metheral says it took two years to
get all the approvals for his plant, and
that was 10 years ago.
f your plans haven't been
approved, you won't be assigned
hours by the inspection system.
The number of hours of inspection a
plant receives is generally assigned
based on the hours used the year
previously, though there is some
flexibility for growing operations, he
explains.
Renecker's work in Alaska in
trying to start a caribou meat industry
led him to discover a portable
abattoir system invented in Sweden
for going to remote locations such as
those caribou farmers would face. He
thinks the system might also be a less
expensive alternative to building a
fixed plant in Ontario.
A video of the plant he presented
showed a plant built into transport
trailers that could be moved to a site
and set up in a relatively short time
with its own kill floor with adjustable
height for different kinds of animals,
its own cutting room and coolers.
The Canadian Food Inspection
Agency wouldn't allow such a plant
to be a mobile operation here,
Renecker said, but even if it was in a
permanent location he estimates the
costs at $1 million compared to $3
million for a fixed plant of similar
capacity.
Whether such portable plants are
the answer or not, it becomes clear
that there's no place for farmers
looking for alternatives unless there
is some kind of small-scale
processing. Federal plants, Burdick
pointed out, have long lines of
nearly -identical carcasses going
through the system. "Provincial
plants might see a Targe bull followed
by a veal calf, sheep and goats.
We're a little more accommodating."
That's the kind of flexibility that's
needed if farmers and consumers are
going to be able to choose
alternatives to the commodity -style
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