The owners of Ralph’s Packing Company in Perkins, Okla. have announced they will soon shut down their slaughtering floor and focus on their retail products.
“Modern government inspection rules and regulations have made it impossible for our plant to continue harvesting of animals, and to further process meat into the various fully cooked products we make without a huge capital investment,” Ralph’s management said in a statement that went out to Ralph’s customers last week.
“When my grandparents first opened, slaughtering was 95 percent of the business,” Erica Hering, granddaughter of company founder Ralph Crane, said. “With modern day requirements, it’s become harder and harder to keep up with the paperwork for those processes.”
Currently, slaughtering makes up only about 15 percent of the company’s business.
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