Mobile Meat Processing Goes Forward

Thanks to a large group of interested parties...

Last month we were graced with a news piece on KUOW regarding the project to bring USDA inspected meat processing to the South Sound area. Here is the link to that story:

http://www.kuow.org/program.php?id=15672

The Request for Proposals was issued last week, and bids are due on Monday September 22nd.

You can read a great article in last Friday's Wall Street Journal regarding the Island County van, which is working well. That article is at:

http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122054916174600403.html

If the article goes down I will reprint the text and photos here. Please let me know if you try the link and it fails.

Last week an entourage of us presented the project idea to the Senate Agriculture Committee in Vancouver. The project seems to have been well received, as it should have been, since we were asking for no state funding for a project that will bring real rural economic development. If TVW gets the audio up for that presentation I'll link it here.

More news on this important project as it progresses.