Building resilient local meat supply chains: how on-farm slaughter fits into the federal meat inspection act.

Using the state of Vermont as a case study, the next section considers how federal and state interpretations of the personal use exemption in the FMIA have impacted on-farm slaughter practices and the security of the small-scale meat supply chain in the state. [...] The dispute arose in early 2022 as a result of an administrative act when the Vermont Agency of Agriculture, Food and Markets (VAAFM) required registered farms engaged in on-farm slaughter to have customers present during the act of slaughter and to arrange appropriate transportation of carcasses.76 Due to FMIA exemption language an influx of questions to the agency, the VAAFM shared this The FMIA. [...] [I]nspection of the slaughter of animals and Vermont, that in order to qualify for the personal exemption, the preparation of the carcasses. [...] in commerce of the carcasses, parts thereof, livestock buyers or animal share buyers—whether or not the meat and meat food products of such animals, buyers are present—was congruent with the FMIA.80 After exclusively for use, in the household of such owner, by this law was passed in 2013,81 the use of on-farm itinerant him and members of his household and his nonpaying slaughter services became mo. [...] Even though the FMIA does not explicitly FSIS to enforce the FMIA across the state.103 The Colorado prohibit animal share agreements, the “exclusively for use Department of Agriculture’s guidance to Colorado farmers by him” requirement of the personal use exemption has and ranchers regarding the Ranch to Plate Act states that raised the question of whether multiple people from different FSIS has a.