Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Mission Statement

Chimacum Meats


A rural abattoir in the pacific northwest, focused on teaching the professional arts of humane animal husbandry & slaughter, butchering and charcuterie to non-professionals in the community.


1) Chimacum Meats is a small scale farm-based butchershop in Chimacum Wa, dedicated to small scale processing, distribution and consumption of locally raised beef, pork and lamb, and to the preservation and education of old world, artisanal methods of preserving these products.


2) All animals are either raised on site or purchased live from local farmers who use sustainable organic methods and and who feed their livestock only local organically produced grass, hay, barley, wheat and whey. Chimacum Meats honors and respects our domesticated livestock animals who, because of their service to us, deserve to be treated with the utmost respect and care. They have given or will give their lives for our benefit. We owe them a debt of gratitude. And to allow them to live their lives in dignity and peace. And to sacrifice and consume them with the utmost of respect and honor.


3) All meat is sold in quarter carcass amounts or larger and is not USDA inspected. Facilities are commercial grade and meet all code requirements for safe meat handling including a full size walk-in refrigerator. All meat is intended solely for private use and consumption. All butchering and other processing is done by the purchasers/owners of the meat with those individuals responsible for their own meat and its safety.




Suggested reading:
1) Basic Butchering of Livestock and Game - John J. Mettler, DVM
2) Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery - Jane Grigson
3) Charcuterie - Michael Ruhlman
4) Cooking by Hand - Paul Bertolli
5) Bruce Aidells Complete Book of Pork: A Guide to Buying, Storing and Cooking the Worlds Favorite Meat
6) The Whole Beast - Nose to Tail Eating - Fergus Henderson
7) The Art of Making Fermented Sausage - Stanley Marianski and Adam Marianski
8) The River Cottage Cookbook - Hugh Fearnley-Whitingstall; p. 139 - 169

"It seems obvious to me that the morality of meat eating lies in the factual details of our relationships with the animals we kill for food. It is what we do to them that counts. There is the simple fact that we plan and carrry out their slaughter. And, in the case of farmed animals, there are the more complex interactions through which we manage and control almost every aspect of the lives, from birth to death. From where do we draw the moral authority to bring about their deaths? And what is the moral status of the means and methods we use to run their lives?" - from "The River Cottage Meat Book" by Hugh Fearnley-Whitingstall, 2004 and 2007.


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