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Cutting the Gender Gap in Vermont’s Meat-Processing Industry

Taped in the window of a truck parked at the Royal Butcher in Braintree, a hand-lettered sign reads: “Experienced meat cutter needed. Starting pay $15/hr.” Inside the building, owner Royal Larocque and longtime employee Teresa Mallette explained that they are always looking for good people. Since Larocque opened his slaughterhouse in 2003, he’s struggled to […]

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