You’ve probably never heard of Frank Stornach. Sure, he’s a Canadian
billionaire — yes, they have them there! — and an auto-parts cum
horseracing magnate. But rather than hanging up his wrench spurs retiring, he’s decided to try his hand at turning grass-fed beef back into a mass-market product.
According to this report in Macleans (Canada’s equivalent of TIME magazine),
Stornach is buying up land outside of Ocala, Fla., at a furious pace —
70,000 acres and counting. His plan: to create a massive ranch with
“30,000 cattle, a 61,000-sq.-foot abattoir that would slaughter up to
300 cows a day, and a biomass power plant that would extract methane
from manure.” It’s a grand vision:
