Paleo Approved - Game

Land Owners must notify Producers if animals to be harvested were exposed to any pesticides, animal drugs, or fertilizers within a 90-day period prior to harvest. Producers should provide at least one person to assist in identifying animals to be harvested and help load animals in truck during harvesting. Producers should assist in helping identify animals, but final approval should be from Land Owner/ Ranch representative. Only Producer personnel are authorized to shoot during the harvest. No other shooters are allowed during the harvest. Animals must be field-harvested with minimal stress by a long-distance head shot, typically from 50 to 200 yards. All animals must be electro-stimulated when harvested. This is necessary to ensure good meat quality. A noise suppressor should be used on the rifle to minimize disturbance to other animals. No animals that are penned in small areas may be purchased just for shooting purposes. This practice stresses animals and negatively affects meat quality. Producers must travel to the ranch accompanied by a state meat inspector. A mobile processing facility or MSU must be towed to the ranch where the harvested animals are skinned and eviscerated under inspection. Land Owners must provide a suitable water source (hose bib hookup) for Producer’s equipment at the location where the harvesting trailer will be parked. Processed animals must be placed in the mobile processing facility’s cooler system built for transport back to the plant. Land Owners should provide Producers with a dumping site for inedible carcass, head, feet, and viscera.