{"id":227,"date":"2009-08-12T16:15:19","date_gmt":"2009-08-13T00:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/mobile-slaughterhouse\/"},"modified":"2009-08-12T16:15:19","modified_gmt":"2009-08-13T00:15:19","slug":"mobile-slaughterhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/mobile-slaughterhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Mobile Slaughterhouse"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I read a lot of blogs, and it&#8217;s funny to see unexpected crossovers. While I enjoy the Consumerist for its snarky tales of purchases gone horribly wrong, I was happily surprised this morning to read <a href=\"http:\/\/consumerist.com\/5335929\/bring-out-your-pig-the-mobile-slaughterhouse-is-here\">a post tagged &#8220;locavores,&#8221;<\/a> reporting from a <a href=\"http:\/\/seattletimes.nwsource.com\/html\/localnews\/2009636109_slaughterhouse11m.html\"><i>Seattle Times<\/i> article<\/a> about a new mobile slaughterhouse in Washington state that will bring a USDA-inspected facility to small farms where the animals are.<\/p>\n<p>We need one of these here! USDA-inspected slaughter is mandatory if a rancher wants to sell cuts of meat. While I&#8217;m happy to buy whole lambs and half pigs, as in so many other areas, I&#8217;m in the tiny minority of meat buyers. The nearest facilities for the folks in Santa Cruz county, where I like to buy my meat, are over the Central Valley. Long drives there stress out the animals, when the whole point of humane farming is that they will only have &#8220;one bad day in their lives.&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m not clued in enough to know the status of a similar project here in California, but I&#8217;m heartened to see it happening up in Washington.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"entry-summary\">\nI read a lot of blogs, and it&#8217;s funny to see unexpected crossovers. While I enjoy the Consumerist for its&hellip;\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/2009\/08\/mobile-slaughterhouse\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &ldquo;Mobile Slaughterhouse&rdquo;<\/span>&hellip;<\/a><\/div>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/dianafoss.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}