Market Farming

[Sojourner <sojournr AT missouri.org>]

Michaele Blakely wrote:
> 
> This of course, is determined by which state you live in, how stringent your
> dept. of ag is, as well as county health codes.  Laws, codes differ state to
> state and county to county.  Check out your own state and county legalities,
> some are very obliging, others are not.  Muck through all of that, depending
> upon your market,  you'll find sometimes USDA doesn't matter.

The USDA rules concerning slaughtering ALWAYS take precedence.  Local
health codes vary widely, but the laws governing the resale of meat are
federal.

It was the Feds who tried to shut Joel Salatin down.  And came darn
close to it, too.

State and county regulations concerning on-farm sales, and health
department regulations about storing and packaging and handling of food
items for retail sales to consumers do vary widely, even within the same
state.  But once you move into reselling meat, you are under the USDAs
purview and must conform with ALL the USDA regulations.

-- 
Holly ;-D
Contrary Peasant
sojournr AT missouri.org