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In Gardiner, a new slaughterhouse boosts Maine’s agriculture infrastructure – Kennebec Journal

In Gardiner, a new slaughterhouse boosts Maine’s agriculture infrastructure – Kennebec Journal

slaughterhouse in Gardiner represents both a step in the city’s effort to be a center for local food and an increase in the state’s infrastructure for locally raised meat.

The poultry slaughterhouse, the only one in the state inspected by U.S. Department of Agriculture, is killing and processing around 2,000 chickens and turkeys a week, and the operators of the red meat side expect to start slaughtering cattle and pigs by late July or early August at the Libby Hill Business Park plant. The company running the red meat side, Central Maine Meats, already is processing cattle and pigs three miles away on Brunswick Avenue… (click here to read full article)