The mobile processing unit (MPU) is the first USDA approved mobile processing unit in the US. The MPU is owned by LCLT and operated by the Island Grown Farmers Co-op. The unit shuttles from farm to farm three or four days a week on Lopez Island, collecting fresh carcasses of cows, pigs and sheep that will become steaks, sausage, bacon and hamburgers.

On September 5th, 2008 the Wall Street Journal published an article on the MPU entitled, “Have Knife, Will Travel: A Slaughterhouse on Wheels ‘Custom Butcher’ Gives Small Farms New Option to Sell Local Produce”