Running Arrow Bill":aub0pof5 said:
Unless the processor is a USDA certified processor, it and you cannot legally sell any PACKAGED meat.
Even if it is a certified processor, the buyer should pick it up AT the processor. Do not bring it home and then sell it from your freezer. If you do, you have "broken the chain of evidence" unless YOU have a USDA or State Health Dept inspection/approval for you to hold the meat (and liability insurance for same). With our rabid litigious society, to lose the farm over some stupid customer not cooking a piece of meat correct and getting E. Coli (or worse).
JMHO and acquired paranoia...lol.
Also you have to collect sales tax as you are selling a retail product to an end user if you sell it proccessed and packaged, where if you sell by live weight you don't
I sell by live weight and I charge a $1.25pr lb and I deliver it to the proccessor if they use the same one that I do