More local food could increase New England's climate resilience. Animal processing capacity isn’t ready

MAINE PUBLIC • April 19, 2022

Farmers across New England have been stymied by a regional lack of animal processing facilities. As increasingly frequent climate change-fueled disasters threaten our food system globally, advocates and academics say it could help to eat more food that’s produced closer to home, including meat. But right now, there aren’t enough facilities to process animals — that is, slaughter, butcher, and pack the meat into consumer products.