Cool Hand Meats, a Marion, N.C. company that slaughtered animals from the Foothills Pilot Plant facility, shut down last month for a lack of capital. That closing has affected many small poultry farms who were counting on its services in time for the Thanksgiving and Christmas holiday season, reports the Citizen-Times.
Hickory Nut Gap Farm, located in Asheville, doesn’t have any alternative except do the processing itself, as the nearest USDA-approved slaughterhouses are in Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas and Alabama.