Why Can’t Farmers Butcher Their Own Animals? A New Bill Could Change That

During his speech, he mentioned legislation he had introduced that would allow small American farmers to slaughter and process their own livestock and sell that meat directly to consumers without mandatory federal inspection. - Mollie Engelhart

I was stunned. 

Not because I disagreed with the legislation, but because I hadn’t heard about it.

• Just two months earlier, I had been with Massie at Joel Salatin’s Polyface Farm when President Donald Trump posted on social media that he wanted to make it possible for farmers and ranchers to process their own meat...

But I remember having a conversation with the congressman that day about the reality of making such a change. 

The president could announce his intentions, but changing federal meat-inspection law would require an act of Congress, not simply an executive order...