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Inside the modern meatpacking plant (photos)
We visit Marin Sun Farms' new, 18,000-square-foot specialty meat processing facility in San Francisco.
Craft Steak
Expert butchers cut pasture-raised, grass-fed beef at Marin Sun Farms' new 18,000-square-foot, hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco. Marin Sun Farms hopes to create a wave of change over the traditional meat business by giving small producers who focus on humane handling and sustainable agriculture access to a larger-scale processing infrastructure and a bigger market share.
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Pasture-rasied, grass fed beef hang from a hook in Marin Sun Farms' new hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco.
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Meat hangs in a cold room at Marin Sun Farms' new hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco.
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A hand-cut top round hangs from a hook in Marin Sun Farms new 18,000-square-foot, hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco.
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Expert butchers cut pasture-raised, grass-fed beef at Marin Sun Farms new 18,000-square-foot, hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco.
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Hand-cut slabs of pasture-raised, grass-fed beef lay on a table at Marin Sun Farms new 18,000-square-foot, hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco.
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David Evans, a fifth-generation California rancher, has opened 18,000-square-foot, hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco. Marin Sun Farms hopes to create a wave of change over the traditional meat business by giving small producers who focus on humane handling and sustainable agriculture access to a larger-scale processing infrastructure and a bigger market share. "These aren't butchers," Evans said. "They're artists."
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Meat hangs in a cold room at Marin Sun Farms' new hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco.
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Hand-cut meats lie in a cold room at Marin Sun Farms' new hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco.
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Full pig carcasses hang in a cold room at Marin Sun Farms' new hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco.
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Chunks of pasture-raised, grass-fed beef sit in cold room at Marin Sun Farms' new hand-cut specialty meat processing plant in San Francisco.
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