Note to Prime Meats: cash only?
The farmers rear livestock for various purposes, including draught power, milk, meat, transport, cash income, and manure.
"We've seen green cards, meat thermometers, paychecks, cash, wallets, cellphones," said Christopher Hermanns, president of the Clifton, N.J., company.
That means they need a large meat freezer, upfront cash, and all the time and resources necessary to get the product from the farm to the home.
In the south, women grow the family's food, and men provide meat and grow cash crops.
Fifteen (68.2%) butcheries had the same person handling the meat and the cash (no cashier) while seven (31.8%) had a food handler and a cashier.
They relied heavily on animal herding for sources of wool and meat to bring cash income or would exchange them for potatoes, cereals, and other foods in the local market.
However, as seen in major international studies, the pastoralists produce more and better quality meat and generate more cash per hectare than "modern" Australian and US ranches.
For a trip in 2002, to South Africa, his entourage consisted of a personal jet, two transport planes, a container ship filled with buses and goat meat, $6 million in petty cash and 400 security guards.
Sent every winter to slaughter the mammals for research that Japan says is vital to our understanding of whale populations, the crewmen are instead seizing and selling prized cuts of meat to earn extra cash and, in at least one case, earn many more times their annual salary, says the whaler-turned-whistleblower.
