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Instead of trucking livestock to processing facilities, mobile processing allows for trailers to travel to livestock.

"Providing additional small scale processing with mobile units is an important component in rebuilding local and regional sustainable food systems."

Instead of trucking livestock to processing facilities, mobile slaughter allows the processing trailer to travel to the livestock, a concept that has potential to localize the food system while being more humane for the animals.

"Providing additional small scale processing with mobile units is an important component in rebuilding local and regional sustainable food systems," stated Mike Callicrate, Ranch Foods Direct Owner.

For many ranchers, there’s little choice for where to sell your cattle if they want to control the distribution or sell the butchered meat themselves.

KRCC’s Noel Black visited a ranch in northwestern Kansas near the Colorado border where a small group of people are taking small steps to change that.



Warning to listeners, some of the sounds and descriptions in this piece are graphic.

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Mobile Meat Processing Unit Concept

Mobile Meat Processing Informational Videos


Part I: Set-up

Part II: Stunning, Bleeding and Moving
 

Part III: From Carcass to Cooler
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Cowpool.org Promotes Localized Mobile Meat Processing Units

User experience logo 'Cow pooling' refers to sharing beef, but we're not talking just any beef. The cow pooling program will market the processing and distribution of local, sustainable and humanely raised beef from a source you can trust.

Mike Callicrate, at his natural meat company Ranch Foods Direct, assures that the Cowpool.org initiative is to foster businesses that benefit both local ranchers and consumers, with processing and distribution systems that provide incomparable quality, wholesomeness, eating satisfaction, and a mutually rewarding relationship of trust and responsibility.

Learn more about Cowpool.org

 

Dark Side of Meat Processing


The MEATRIX®
Take the red pill and watch the critically-acclaimed, award-winning first episode of The Meatrix Trilogy.

Our heroes Moopheus, Leo and Chickity expose the dark side of Meat Processing.

A Pig's Tail


The Humane Society of the United States has teamed up with Academy Award-winning Aardman Studios to create A Pig's Tail, a short but compelling animated film about a pig’s perspective of factory farming.

This film gives a taste of how animals are treated on factory farms—and how we can help by choosing more humane alternatives.

Animal Welfare Approved (AWA)

Tour a working MMPU

Callicrate Cattle Co

Multiple Species Processing

  • Cows
  • Goats
  • Pigs
  • Poultry

All facilities meet USDA standards

MMPU Technical and Business Feasibility (PDF)

Project Funded by: Innovation Program, Alberta Applied Science and Technology, Advancing Canadian Agriculture and Agri Food Alberta Agriculture and Rural Development, and Olds College, AB