Another view on the freedom to sell good food here . I took a big steer over to an Amish friend to butcher for me . I don’t do blood and guts . I get queasy . He killed , cut-up ,and packed the meat , 675 pounds of it . We gave our kids some and we all started eating it . But something was wrong . It did not taste right and our stomachs seemed to not like it either . I went over to investigate and see if I could figure out why this 675 pounds of meat was not good . While talking to him in his basement where he cuts the meat up another guy pulls in with another beast to be butchered and my Amish butcher friend goes outside to get the cow unloaded and in a waiting stall . I decide to snoop around and check out the facilities . Upon opening the side door to his gas powered band saw I saw the problem . The tray at the bottom of blade where all the cuttings fall off the saw blade was built up to an astounding height and had shrooms , mold , and other disgusting growths of rotten deer , pig , cattle , chicken , turkey and probably many other beasts over the winter butchering season and the saw blade was running through that fetid mess of bacteria . I sold all the rest of the meat on Craigslist for dog meat at $2 a pound and thankfully made back my investment and a bit more but I did then find me an “ English” butcher to cut up my meat in the future . I can understand why the authorities want to inspect a butcher facility . I used my feet to solve the problem .
Our local Amish butcher shop is spotless.
I enjoy visiting the shop to see all the ingenuity as he has no electricity. All his grinders and slicers are run on pneumatic motors..
Even the compressor for the cooler and freezer,, the blower motors for the smoke houses,, everything.
The ceiling fans make a quiet pssst sound as they too run on air pressure.
The ceiling lights are propane.
There are also a few propane refrigerators.
We handle the tax work for about 600 horse & buggy Amish and Mennonite farms. (It was humorous last week as a state tax auditor visited one of them. We were polite, and offered him a table to work at in the buggy shed. He quickly ran out of battery on his laptop and left.. 😁)
Would perhaps have been prudent to check out facilities before hiring butcher,
BTW; how does one know the conditions in a chain market?