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The Local Food Report
As we re-imagine our relationships to what we eat, Local Food Report creator Elspeth Hay takes us to the heart of the local food movement to talk with growers, harvesters, processors, cooks, policy makers and visionaries

Planning a Slaughterhouse for Martha's Vineyard

CAI | By Elspeth Hay
Published January 10, 2013 at 6:43 AM EST
Elspeth Hay

Massachusetts has just two USDA-certified slaughterhouses for livestock. On the Local Food Report, an intiative is afoot to create a livestock processing facility on Martha's Vineyard. Plans are already drawn up.

Find out more about the proposal for a slaughterhouse for Martha's Vineyard, and get more information about slaughterhouses in New England, on Elspeth's blog, Diary of a Locavore.
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Elspeth Hay
Elspeth Hay is the creator and host of the Local Food Report, a weekly feature that has aired on CAI since 2008, and the author of the forthcoming book, Feed Us with Trees: Nuts and the Future of Food. Deeply immersed in her own local-food system, she writes and reports for print, radio, and online media with a focus on food, the environment, and the people, places, and ideas that feed us. You can learn more about her work at elspethhay.com.
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