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Show Meat Inspection Act Upheld by Dist. Court Certain unlicensed operators of livestock slaughtering facilities were found guilty in Salt Lake County District Court September 11 of violation of the law which requires re-quires all who slaughter livestock as a business to obtain a license from the Utah State Department of Agriculture, and do the slaughtering slaugh-tering in a licensed slaughterhouse, slaughter-house, where the animals can be handled under sanitary conditions and where proper facilities are availble for disposition of waste. Utah was among the first states in the intermountain area to adopt a meat inspection law. This was done not only to assure the consuming con-suming public that only healthy animals would be sold for food, but discourage theft, since brand inspection in-spection is required of all animals slaughtered at licensed slaughtering slaughter-ing establishments.' . Several years ago, the Utah Cattlemen's Cat-tlemen's Association, realizing the highly competitive food market mar-ket and the importance of. providing provid-ing the consuming public with a wholesome and abundant food supply sup-ply of animal origin, petitioned the legislature to enact meat inspection inspec-tion legislation. Operators of slaughterhouses also were in favor of meat inspection laws and regulations. regu-lations. Members of the legislature, particularly par-ticularly from rural areas, were quick to realize that the larger cities of the state have had meat inspection laws ' and regulations for many years, and that to provide the same protection, sanitary facilities, fa-cilities, and proper meat inspection to the smaller cities and towns is a part of progress. Nearly everyone every-one has seen the little slaughterhouse, slaughter-house, with its pile of waste, where . flies and vermin breed. Operators of present-day slaughterhouses in Utah are commended upon the large sums of money they have spent to comply with the law and regulations. They are anxious for the consuming public to visit and inspect their facilities. The jury which found in favor of enforcing the law is to be com- plimented since there are those who would still slaughter animals in the backyard on the manure pile. There should be. no serious objection to those who wish to slaughter their own animals under unsanitary conditions if they wish to do so. However, some meat from animals slaughtered by operators op-erators of portable equipment finds its way into the regular channels chan-nels of trade. |
