{"id":114844,"date":"2025-11-20T05:01:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:01:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/11\/20\/with-butchers-disappearing-high-schools-look-to-step-in\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-11-20T08:19:14","modified_gmt":"2028-10-05T08:19:14","slug":"with-butchers-disappearing-high-schools-look-to-step-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/11\/20\/with-butchers-disappearing-high-schools-look-to-step-in\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"With Butchers Disappearing, High Schools Look To Step In"},"content":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Slaughterhouses and butchers used to be scattered throughout the United States, numbering about 10,000 in 1967.<br \/>\n\t  Only about 3,000 remain and about 85 percent of the American meatpacking industry  is controlled by four companies: JBS, Tyson Foods, Cargill and Smithfield. The other 20 percent of that market  share is held in part by small and very small meat producers scattered across the country,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[7],"tags":[],"news-destination":[13],"news-source":[12],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=114844"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115155,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114844\/revisions\/115155"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114844"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=114844"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=114844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}