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NEW SURREY SLAUGHTERHOUSE ‘WOULD OPEN DOOR’ TO NEW BEEF MARKETS
from Our June Issue
"I wanted to exercise that … I was thankfully able to find something locally. We love buying from Cammaerts and we will continue to be."
"That really only happened in probably the last month," she told CBC News. "I would say for the past two years we've usually been five to six months in advance with reservations but literally in the last month we're reserved completely for the rest of the year."
Proposed 30,000-square-foot beef abattoir in Cloverdale would be B.C.’s largest such facility
By Amy Reid, Peace Arch News
A federally licensed beef processing facility is in the works in Surrey, BC.
Unlike Dedman, she believes that cost has something to do with it since she said it's cheaper to buy directly from the farm — there aren't the same markups found at the grocery store — and said that people are traveling long distances for her beef, from Windsor and the GTA.
“There’s a new building coming forward, a new abattoir, I think that’s the French pronunciation of slaughterhouse,” said Councillor Mike Starchuk. “So Surrey will have a newer facility with a better capacity so people will have the ability to not have to ship an animal to Alberta to have it processed. The applications have gone through the Agricultural and Food Sustainability Advisory Committee.”
The facility is proposed on a 25-acre property within the Agricultural Land Reserve at 5175 184th St. The planned 30,000-square foot abattoir in Cloverdale would process up
According to a city report, that would make it larger than small by industry standards, compared to the largest meat processing plants in Alberta that process 3,000 heads of proposed facility would be fully enclosed and designed
Her family has decided to pre-ordered a whole cow annually, but said that her desire to buy local wasn't because the grocery store shelves were thinning during the pandemic. She stressed that it was about choice, and making healthy choices. Cost is a factor too.
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