Great Lakes Poultry, Inc.

Great Lakes Poultry, Inc. operates at 5001 South US 35 in La Porte, Indiana, in LaPorte County. The plant holds federal establishment numbers M34078 and P34078, with FSIS activities listed as meat processing, meat slaughter, poultry processing, and poultry slaughter. FSIS classifies the establishment as small, with a grant of inspection date on file of August 16, 2021. Poultry is the species reported as slaughtered under inspection, and the plant reports halal slaughter to FSIS. Its FSIS slaughter volume category is 4.0. No custom-exempt activity is reported.

The company website describes a family owned and operated business in operation since April 2007, with the family citing more than 50 years in the meat industry. The site traces the family history to 1954, when George Lilovich, then a Gary, Indiana high school science teacher, bought what was then called Great Lakes Duck Farm in LaPorte. The family ran Great Lakes Ducks for 15 years before opening George's Market in Chicago, and the website states that a third generation is now entering the business. The website says chicken processed at the facility is raised on the company's own farms, without antibiotics, on a strict vegetarian diet, with cage-free roaming.

The website's process page describes Zabiha halal standards: hand slaughter without stunning, one bird at a time with an Islamic blessing, exclusion of animal by-products from handling and feeding, and exclusion of carnivorous animals, birds of prey, and land animals without external ears. Retail hours, pricing, product lists, and whether the plant takes outside animals are not stated in the material on file.

The website describes chicken raised on the company's own farms, processed without preservatives, and marketed under a farm to table model. It reports Zabiha halal hand slaughter, birds raised without antibiotics on 100 percent vegetarian feed, and cage-free roaming. The site has an Our Products page and a contact form for inquiries, but the fetched text does not list specific cuts, pack sizes, prices, retail counter hours, delivery, shipping, or online ordering.

If you are buying a half or quarter animal, the plant is where the animal is processed; the farm sells you the animal. Read how to buy a half cow for the sequence and the math.