🥩 @RepThomasMassie has been fighting for the PRIME Act for years, and it's been folded into the Farm Bill that passed the House.

The PRIME Act allows small farmers and ranchers to slaughter their own animals on site and sell directly to local restaurants, households, and community members without federal oversight. Right now, even a farmer selling steaks at a local farmers' market has to route the animal through a large federally inspected processing facility, often a corporate plant, before it can be sold. That process adds high cost, which is why locally raised beef at a farmers' market carries a price tag that shocks most people.

The PRIME Act cuts that middleman out entirely for small, local operations.

This is the kind of food freedom that used to just be called farming. Knowing your farmer, buying directly from the source, skipping the corporate processing chain - it is a straightforward idea that has been buried under layers of federal regulation for decades.

The bill now heads to the Senate.

@delbigtree