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Impact of the JBS Devonport Abattoir closing

10/26/2018

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Pig pens at Langdale Farm
"This place and this farm is now part of our identity as a family. We've worked incredibly hard to build our herd and our business. It is nothing short of heartbreaking to think of it being gone overnight, and the farm falling silent." ​

It's been a turbulent week. On Tuesday we heard that JBS, the conglomerate that runs the abattoir we use at Devonport, would close on 15th November. 

Just use another abattoir, you might think? Well, no. There is only one abattoir in the north of Tasmania which handles pigs. There is an abattoir at Cressy, which is a suitable distance away from our farm and well placed  for the sector just south of Launceston, but it has Halal certification which is important part of its business, so it doesn't slaughter pigs. ​

This leaves us high and dry. There is really no viable alternative that we could use. To our knowledge there are a couple of small abattoirs in the south of the state, but that is far too great a distance to transport pigs. We could not afford the travel time it would take to get there and back once a fortnight. It would add a time and financial cost to our business that lessened its already parlous viability. And it would be a completely unacceptable practice to us - we choose to farm and keep our livestock as kindly and ethically as we can and we do not want to transport them long distances before slaughter. 

For this reason we would not go for the alternative that some larger farms might, of shipping our pigs across the Bass Strait to be slaughtered on the mainland. What an appalling thought. ​


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Super Express Lasagne

10/18/2018

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Mary Berry's express lasagne is one of our favourite recipes
This delicious lasagne recipe is by Mary Berry, a British food writer and television presenter. She's an old school family cook and many of her recipes are ingenious time savers - like this one. It's the perfect dish when you fancy a sumptuous and satisfying lasagne but not the palaver of making sauces. This recipe cuts corners cleverly but is still home cooking made from scratch - just super quick - guaranteed half the prep time of a normal lasagne! The flavour combinations are also genius - it's really quite scrumptious. 

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