Trump allows ranchers to process their own beef and sell across state lines
President Donald Trump signed a sweeping executive order on Friday allowing farmers and ranchers to slaughter their own livestock and process their own food, a measure meant to lower beef prices ahead of the midterm elections in November.
TL;DR
- Executive order allows farmers and ranchers to slaughter and process their own food.
- Aims to lower beef prices ahead of midterm elections.
- Department of Agriculture to create a program for direct sales from ranchers to consumers.
- This action bypasses four large meatpacking corporations.