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FOR CLEAN VERSION SEE STORY NUMBER: apus002376 VOICE-OVER SCRIPT: (nats chickens) A TRIP MANY SMALL FARMERS ARE WILLING TO TAKE -- TO KEEP COSTS DOWN AND STAY IN BUSINESS. MOBILE BUTCHERIES ARE POPPING UP IN A NUMBER OF STATES, AND LIVESTOCK CAN BE KILLED, CLEANED, PACKAGED AND FROZEN ALL WITHIN THIS 20 FOOT TRAILER. A VIABLE ALTERNATIVE FOR LOCAL FARMERS WHO HAVE BEEN SHUT OUT OF LARGE INDUSTRIAL SLAUGHTERHOUSES. SOUNDBITE (English) Tehran Jewell, southern Kentucky farmer: "It's a huge money saver. All our farmers, there's about 13 of us in the group, come from the BG Ky mammoth cave area, we travel for more than an hour and a half to two hours to get here." THE CATCH? FARMERS MUST DO ALL THE WORK THEMSELVES, BUT FOR MANY, THE SAVINGS ARE WORTH THE EXTRA EFFORT. SOUNDBITE (English) Tehran Jewell, southern Kentucky farmer: "We come here and process our chickens ourselves, to decrease the cost of the final bird, and try to have a bird for people to buy at a decreased cost from what's available on the market nowadays." TRAILERS ARE PARKED INSIDE TO PROTECT AGAINST FLIES AND OTHER PESTS -- -- AND TO MEET HEALTH DEPARTMENT EXPECTATIONS, LIVESTOCK IS INSPECTED ON SITE. WITH the ability TO PROCESS ANYTHING FROM POULTRY TO BISON, DEMAND FOR MOBILE BUTCHERIES IS RISING. SOUNDBITE (English) Steve Skelton, mobile slaughterhouse coordinator: "I get calls from all over the United States wanting to know how the MPU works. I've been to Georgia, West Virginia, Tennessee, Arkansas, Oklahoma. I've been all over demonstrating the MPU, I can go anywhere with it." KEEPING COSTS LOW FROM FARM TO TABLE. MAGGIE MAZZETTI, ASSOCIATED PRESS. You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/youtube/57d554758a49a8fedb9b400c092a260d Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork