Denial of boutique slaughterhouse leads to accusations of ‘NIMBYism’ and concerns over food insecurity
While many individuals who come to the western Sierra region fall in love as soon as they lay eyes on its beautiful green fields against a backdrop of the staggering blue mountains, what some seem to forget is that those fields are green in large part due to irrigation systems stewarded by local farmers and ranchers.
Carson Valley Meats has tried and failed twice to open a U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) boutique meat processing facility in Northern Nevada.