For the past few decades leading up to 2020, the consolidation in the meat and poultry processing industries was touted as creating the most efficient and resilient method to bring protein for farmers and ranchers to consumers.
Then came COVID.
Meet Triple H Ranch, Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit and horse rescue located on the island of St. Thomas in the US Virgin Islands. They have big dreams of improving food security across the island by opening a mobile meat processing business. The island currently has no meat processing facilities for its livestock producers, but there is an older facility in need of refurbishing.