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Farmers want better access to slaughter options not red tape.
Author of the article: Glenda Luymes
Publishing date: Feb 17, 2021 • February 17, 2021 • 3 minute read • Julia Smith, owner of Blue Sky Ranch and a member of the Small-Scale Meat Producers Association. The group wants the B.C. government to improve slaughter capacity to allow farmers to meet the growing demand for local meat. Photo by Submitted photo /PNG
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B.C. farmers who want to slaughter animals on their own property must complete a new training course focused on food safety.
The announcement by the Ministry of Agriculture is the latest in a series of changes to B.C.’s slaughter system, which has come under fire from small-scale producers who say red tape is preventing them from meeting a growing demand for local meat.
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It felt like time to return to the land.
After several years away, Nicol Watson moved back to her family home on the Tsawwassen First Nation in 2017.
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“I decided to return to my community and learn to live off the earth,” she said. “I knew I needed a change, but I didn’t really know what I was doing.”
As a child, Watson helped her grandfather in his garden. She grew up, got a job and moved away, but a bad car crash made it hard for her to continue to work as an industrial painter.