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Changes to Meat Regulation Released
Last May, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) proposed a number of changes to Ontario’s Meat Regulations – that is, the rules that apply to businesses making things from meat. ...
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Consider the Mobile Abattoir — News from the Yukon
A Mobile Abattoir has been operating for 7 years in the Yukon. But now – for this year only! – the service is being offered to farmers FOR FREE! Says Kevin Bowers of the Yukon Ministry o...
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Seeking Backyard / Small-scale Poultry Growers!
Everdale Organic Farm and Learning Centre is looking into building a small mobile poultry processing unit, which would be available for rent for those with backyard chickens or small on-farm flocks (b...
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A Different Sort of Slaughterhouse… a Look Inside Salt Spring Island’s New ‘Modular’ Abattoir
When the province of British Columbia passed a series of sweeping changes to the rules governing abattoirs and meat plants in 2004, the impacts on small abattoirs were severe and immediate, disrupting...
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Working Group Update: Letter to OMAF on Ontario’s Meat Regulations
Over the past several months, the Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) has been seeking feedback on a series of changes to Ontario’s meat regulations that they have proposed. These ch...
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Feedback on Ontario’s Meat Regulations
The Ontario Ministry of Agriculture and Food (OMAF) has been working on some amendments to Ontario’s Meat Regulations and they recently released a formal proposal outlining these suggested chang...
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Perth County Abattoir Report
A study has recently been released by the Perth County Economic Development Agency on the challenges facing abattoir operators in the county. Expanding on the findings of a broader recent Agriculture ...
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Meeting on Regulation in Small Meat Processing
Sustain Ontario’s ‘Meat Working Group’ will be hosting a meeting on Friday May 24th from 10 am to 3:30 pm to discuss regulations in the meat processing sector. The discussion will...
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Growing Good Food Ideas: Community Food Centres Canada
Community Food Centres Canada from Sustain Ontario on Vimeo. These vibrant and welcoming Community Food Centres (CFCs for short) are popping up all across Canada! Take a peek inside a few different ce...
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Mobile Abattoirs: Lessons from Quebec
The troubles of butchers and slaughterhouse operators aren’t the most talked about of all the challenges facing food purveyors. It’s easy to support farmers growing kale or tomatoes, but deali...
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Digesting after the New England Meat Conference…
Sitting in the front row of a conference room in Concord, New Hampshire a few weeks ago, eagerly awaiting the start of my first workshop at the New England Meat Conference, the unlikeliness of the sce...
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Wondering about Mobile Abattoirs? Read on…
Check out this great new article in Small Farm Canada magazine, “The Future of Mobile Abattoirs”! It’s a beautifully written synopsis by Fiona Wagner that looks at the pros & c...