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Locally killed latest trend in US high grade meat pictures
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- July 20, 2009
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1. Steve Greco, left, guides a quartered section of a cow to Clayton Greco, right, to the meat locker inside the Central Coast Agriculture Cooperative's mobile slaughterhose on the Poett Ranch near Lompoc, Calif., Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Michael A
2. Clayton Greco sprays lactic acid onto just-quartered sections of a cow hanging on hooks suspended from the ceiling inside the Central Coast Agriculture Cooperative's mobile slaughterhose on the Poett Ranch near Lompoc, Calif., Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP
3. Deb Garrison, left, organizer of the Central Coast Agriculture Cooperative, talks with cattle rancher Elizabeth Poett on the Poett ranch while waiting for Poett's cattle to be processed in the cooperative's mobile slaughterhose near Lompoc, Calif., Wednesd
4. Cattle are seen on the Poett ranch near Lompoc, Calif., Wednesday, July 8, 2009. (AP Photo/Michael A. Mariant)
The end of the line for cattle raised at Elizabeth Poett's spread on the Central Coast used to come at an inland slaughterhouse after a five-hour drive crammed in a trailer with other spooked animals.
Now death comes to Rancho San Julian in the form of a mobile butchering vehicle that caters to small ranchers offering premium meats marketed as free-range, grass-fed and sustainably raised.
While "locally slaughtered" may not join those buzz words on meat labels, the practice allows the eighth-generation rancher and her peers to do what their ancestors took for granted: raise animals from manger to cuts of meat.
"They are treated like animals should be treated when they're harvested here with, I ...