{"id":114949,"date":"2025-11-20T05:00:40","date_gmt":"2025-11-20T12:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/uswps06.newsmemory.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/2025\/11\/20\/with-butchers-disappearing-in-the-state-montanas-high-schools-look-to-step-in\/?destination=northern-plains-independent"},"modified":"2025-11-20T05:03:17","modified_gmt":"2028-10-05T05:03:17","slug":"with-butchers-disappearing-in-the-state-montanas-high-schools-look-to-step-in","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/2025\/11\/20\/with-butchers-disappearing-in-the-state-montanas-high-schools-look-to-step-in\/?destination=northern-plains-independent","title":{"rendered":"With Butchers Disappearing In The State,  Montana\u2019s 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":[14],"news-source":[11],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114949"}],"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=114949"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114949\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":115004,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/114949\/revisions\/115004"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=114949"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=114949"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=114949"},{"taxonomy":"news-destination","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-destination?post=114949"},{"taxonomy":"news-source","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.northernplainsindependent.com\/northernplainsindependent\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news-source?post=114949"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}