I have spent a lot of time this last week figuring out what is legal and what is not in terms of meat production. It turns out that even after 2 calls to the department of agriculture, I was planning to do several illegal things with my veal calves:
1) have them slaughtered at a federally inspected slaughterhouse when the inspector wasn't there.
2) use a label that had not been approved by the USDA
3) sell people half animals that were slaughtered on my farm.
All no-nos. The guy I needed to be talking to be talking to from the get go's back got better and was able to call me and straighten me out. I got things sorted now and I think everything is on the up and up but it just goes to show that the complicated web of meat regulations is, well, complicated.
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