Here is an example of a huge problem brewing in our country. Many people that live in rural areas want to get into homesteading and producing their own food. Problem is there are no longer hardly any local butcher shops that have the ability to kill live animals. The shops that are left are booked up sometimes 2 years in advance. So if I buy a 400lb calf to feed out it will take about 12 months to get that calf to butcher weight. You better have an appointment at the butcher shop before you even buy that calf. Also there are only about 3 companies that process meat and one of them is owned by the CCP. This leaves very few option unless you learn to butcher your own. However butchering your own is not legal if you want to sell meat to the public at the local farmers market. If these 3 companies that own all the meat packing plants have issues such as fires or break downs there will be an instant disruption to the food supply.
Then I haven’t even mentioned how the few packing companies are able to squeeze producers to reduce the price paid for live animals and screw the farmers while raising their prices and increasing their profits screwing the consumers.
In GA we have about 32 small meat processors. Granted many of them process game but there are one or two near where we just bought property that will process poultry and one that does beef as well. There is also a guy who raises his own cattle and processes on his farm we can buy from. We are fortunate that Georgia is an agricultural state.
Sounds like a great career opportunity for some urban slasher types....