Campaigning For A 'micro' Abattoir For The North Coast

5th May 2022

From The Scottish Farmer.

Efforts are continuing to open up a 'micro' community abattoir in the far north.

The North Coast Abattoir Group has been leafleting in Caithness to promote community interest in and support for such a venture, as beef and lamb producers in the area have been without a local slaughterhouse since the summer of 2011.

The group, led by Highland cattle breeder Morris Coghill, is bidding to start up a new enterprise in the mothballed former Caithness Beef and Lamb plant in Keiss. Two years ago, the group carried out a feasibility study for the proposed private kill service on the back of a £9884 grant from Caithness Beatrice Community Fund.

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The Keiss slaughterhouse is to the right of this set of farm buildings in the photo.
Photographer Bill Fernie on his walkabout for the council election on 26 April 2022.