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State Meat and Poultry Inspection Program to be cut
While agriculture understands the state’s budget issues and is willing to do their part, Donnie Lawson a beef producer from Boone County says cutting the state’s meat and poultry inspection program by 50 percent is going a little too far. Lawson believes legislators and those dealing with the state budget need to understand what this would mean to rural Indiana.
“Last year there was approximately 26,000 head of cattle and 46,000 head of hogs that were processed in Indiana, by those local processors,” said Lawson. “You’re talking somewhere around $25 million worth of product, and if we don’t have the state inspection I think you’ll see those numbers go down considerably.”
And it’s not just reduced slaughter capacity, Donnie Lawson says it will mean jobs in those rural areas as well.
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