Slaughterhouse Problems

We hear so much about the problems of the big US slaughterhouses that it’s easy to forget that small ones are not necessarily ideal either.

This November the political leaders here in the city of Guanajuato are asking the State to help with a million dollar clean up of the town slaughterhouse. Of course that’s just the beginning of the bargaining. But even so it suggests that it’s going to cost a lot of money for a town of about 150,000 people and a slaughterhouse that deals with 40 pigs, 20 cattle, and a varying number of sheep and goats daily. But the sanitary conditions are apparently terrible, the treatment of the animals ditto, and the evisceration of carcasses subject to contamination.

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