Gee, someone finally figured this out? Good for Them. Now if they will just do it, instead of talking about it. And raising $300 million to do it???
How about raising $300,000 to rent a building with a big freezer, buy some knives, saws and grinders, hire a few people, and go for local trade rather than doing something regional - national. and do it a few hundred times in different localities? I’d be glad to invest a few thousand bucks into a local co-op among my rancher neighbors, and get paid back in product over a few years.
Or even smaller. My neighbor raises his own chickens, hogs, and cattle and has a local butcher process them.
I've never done it, but I've been told getting USDA approval and permitting for such a venture is a nightmare. Why do you think a few big companies in bed with Fed.gov control it all?