Ali Berlow

Transparent, Licensed and Humane: The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse

“You look too nice to have written this.” she said, pointing at the title of my pink-covered book. "Truth in advertising." I said smiling. "With recipes included."

Surely she must've conjured savagery, gore and worse. However, everything that my book is, is most definitely not that. Not even close.

Humane poultry slaughterhouses are necessary because people eat chicken. Lots of it. They’re essentially non-existent to small-family farmers who would raise broilers if only they had access to affordable, ethical, permitted, and environmentally-sound, animal-welfare approved, humane options. And eaters want fresh, local chicken that is matchless in taste, trust and traceability.

So who builds such a thing? If I can, you can too, you beautiful person. Let’s get to work!

The Mobile Poultry Slaughterhouse: Building a Humane Chicken Processing Unit to Strengthen Your Local Food System. Foreword by Temple Grandin.