Well, now we know the truck-food trend is really getting out to hand.
There's the cupcake truck. The gourmet hamburger truck. The taco truck. And now ... the slaughterhouse truck.
I refer to an interesting piece in The New York Times Magazine about a new food-systems innovation: the mobile abattoir.
The "Modular Harvest System" brings the killing floor to the farm. A small company in New York started the operation this spring. It's a first in the Northeast, the paper reports.
The aim is to address the slaughterhouse shortage that is making it difficult for farmers to keep up with consumer and restaurant demand for local meats.
A previous Times piece
suggested that local resistance to building new slaughterhouses was holding supply down. Lots of people like the idea of having farms in the neighborhood. Slaughterhouses, not so much.
The mobile unit seems to be a way around that.
If you want more farm-to-table, maybe slaughterhouse-to-farm is the way to go.
AP photo