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Small Utah farmers want to be free of some safety rules, but health experts say it’s risky and unfair

Dale Batty can raise, process and then sell whole chickens to Utah consumers, but state rules won’t allow the Vernal farmer to cut up the birds and sell just legs, thighs or breasts.

He said customers would prefer to buy the poultry in pieces and selling it that way would be more profitable for him and his wife, Linda, owners of The Old Home Place family farm.

“I don’t want to be a scofflaw,” he said, “but anytime a producer and a consumer are face-to-face and want to trade or sell something, the state ought to stay out of it.