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ive heard another small butcher / abattoir at Wisbech has just stopped killing.
offering a service that is what customers want and will pay for is what will make an abattoir viableThroughput, speed and plant efficiency is needed to make an abattoir viable in the longterm.
Unfortunately many small abattoirs are just too small to adapt, many are still dressing beasts on cradles, things haven't changed since 1950, their hourly labour cost per animal must be astronomical.
Howrver, small abattoirs are desperately needed, there is no disputing that.
offering a service that is what customers want and will pay for is what will make an abattoir viable
Sent you a pmMy butcher opened a new abattoir last year.
https://www.fginsight.com/news/news...trade-with-development-of-farm-abattoir-87035
I'm sure he'd be happy to discuss it and definite he'd consult for you!
Yes, shortening the supply chain will put more money in farmers' pockets and reduce the carbon footprint of the meat. I think there's general agreement that more small abattoirs would be a good thing but who's going to build them??Throughput, speed and plant efficiency is needed to make an abattoir viable in the longterm.
Unfortunately many small abattoirs are just too small to adapt, many are still dressing beasts on cradles, things haven't changed since 1950, their hourly labour cost per animal must be astronomical.
However, small abattoirs are desperately needed, there is no disputing that.
The death knell was when an EU directive on slaughter houses came out.
It was 4 A4 pages. By the time our useless civil servants processed it out of London it was 96 pages long. Man I knew with slaughter house asked me to help him as he reckoned he could do lots of things in there but not kill any cattle, sheep or pigs. Early days of internet search but I came up with the directive. Told him that any time they came quoting rubbish just give them a copy and tell them to bog off or I will see you in the EHCR in Brussels.
The same thing happened with trailers if you remember, what was stamped on the side was what you were carrying. It was a guy from Northumberland who threatened them with the same ECHR at a cost of a couple of million to VOSA.
His father was driving a 2.5t rated truck with an empty 3.5t trailer towed behind and was given a ticket.
Six weeks later that ruling was removed from their website so anybody who got fined and that includes a lot of caravan owners should start a class action against VOSA.
You might not like Cummings but his threat to drain the civil service swamp is just what we need. The Humphreys gilding the lily is why we got Brexit.