Hawaii Island Meat Coop 1st Annual Meeting 3/24/19

[terracore]

Hawaii Island Meat Cooperative
1st Annual
Membership Meeting
March 24, 2019 2-5 pm
North Hawaii Education & Research Center (NHERC)
45-539 Plumeria St, Honoka’a
Kalehua Room

Food & Refreshments will be served

The foundation has been laid for a mobile
processing facility for Hawaii Island producers to
bring their products to Island tables.
We are now needing to build the Board and
management to get 'er done!
We need your attendance to make this happen!

Agenda

Update & Future Plans
Board Election
Bylaws Approval
Membership Q&A
Open to all

Meeting Packet to follow for members or available upon request
Questions, packet requests, RSVP: Michelle Galimba michelle@kuahiwiranch.com
cell: 430-4927

ETA: Some semblance of formatting, trying to cut and paste from a PDF.

http://hawaiiislandmeat.com/ (URL not on PDF, PDF not at URL for some reason)

[kalakoa]

The mobile slaughterhouse sounded like a good idea, but it's not quite useful to smaller small producers. I'm left wondering if HIMC didn't crunch the numbers, or if they just didn't care.

https://www.hawaiitribune-herald.com/201...-ranchers/

While a mobile slaughterhouse operated by the Hawaii Island Meat Cooperative is periodically available, Carroll said she would have to slaughter about half of her flock for that option to be financially viable. ... Carroll said if she cannot find a place to slaughter her lambs soon, she might have to stop raising the animals altogether.

[terracore]

If anybody is interested in reading the USDA letters against Kulana they are here (scroll down to Kulana).

https://www.fsis.usda.gov/wps/portal/fsi...nt-actions

Except for Kulana beef and chicken via Puna Chicks, all the meat consumed on this island now has to be imported, unless you raise it yourself or get it off the black market. The mobile slaughterhouse might supply a small amount, but I've never seen their stuff for sale. I think a lot of it is consumed by the owners of the animals.