This story about a SUNY school attempting a little local purchasing refers to our local ag college. What they don't tell you is that the college contained one of the best facilities in the state for butchering locally grown meats up until recently. We did business there for several years and never had such perfectly cut and well preserved meat products. Of course the school closed it.....just not pop culture enough for them I guess. I mean, they killed animals there. Had to get all that nastiness gone. This despite the fact that the meat lab was used to train ag students, culinary students, and pre-vet kids and all animal science majors, plus providing a tremendous service to local farmers by providing a USDA inspected location for meat processing. Sadly even at an ag and tech school, agricultural interests often take a back seat to political correctness.
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Sadly this is happening across the US. In my previous life, I worked with many university meat labs, helping to train the next generation of meat scientists and butchers. These labs hang on by the skin of their teeth...because in a world of political correctness no one wants to open their eyes to reality, and the uneducated have more say than they should. I am sorry to hear we've lost another one.
CC, we were really sorry to see it close. It cost the school money too as they had to use their own animals to teach on rather than have a constant supply from farms.
I just interviewed a 4-H leader for a story I'm doing about our county fair. In their exhibit they are taking out all allusions to slaughtering animals for food. They are not even showing where on a cow different cuts are located this year.
Tofu, anyone?
Jan, that is so sad.
This is a sad development I'd never really thought about. We are just now opening our eyes to the importance of producing food locally to save our energy, economies and world. (See Bill McKibben's new book, and I just read a review of a new one by Barbara Kingsolver.) It's probably too late because we've lost our skills and our agricultural land and infrastructure.
mojoman, you are right. There is an ever shrinking minority of people who actually know how to turn raw matter into food.
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