Jessica Roosa isn’t what you would expect from a typical leader of a meat processing business. She is a first-generation farmer. She had a background in biology and the pharmaceutical industry. She once was … a vegetarian.
“When you say never about anything, that usually comes to find you. That makes sure that it happens for you in a big way,” says the president of This Old Farm Inc., which is based in Colfax, Ind. “And so now I own a big meat business, simply because I was a vegetarian for a number of years, probably.”