Students at Oklahoma’s Hartshorne High School have the opportunity to learn meat processing due to the completion of a new facility on the school’s campus.
According to the McAlester News-Capital, Shawn Sparks, with Hartshorne FFA, said the program started in a previous agriculture building, but it was difficult to clean and they were worried about following sanitary procedures. The new building features a meat lab, classroom and a shop for agricultural mechanic classes, and was built with the help of federal money.
Sparks said students will process halves and quarters of beef and pork, and package and label meat from animals the students raise and the school purchases.
