Damian Craft Meats searching for a permanent home

Finding land has been the largest hurdle for a small meat processor. 

Damian Rivera currently works as a custom meat processor, traveling to farms to slaughter animals on site.  For the past eight years, he and his wife Rosemary have been planning to establish a USDA-inspected slaughterhouse and processing facility in southeast Michigan.

“My customers—they’re very pleased but they also wanted me to be able to do a USDA facility so they can retail their meat,” he explains.

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