Stocking up on dead meat
A local veterinary doctor raided several meat shops and fined three butchers for selling substandard meat.
PIND DADAN KHAN:
A local veterinary doctor raided several meat shops in the district and fined three butchers for selling substandard meat. One of the butchers was selling carrion meat.
Police officials were called to the Malik Atta’s butcher shop, where the latter had purchased an entire truck of dead animals that had been killed during the floods.
Atta confessed to selling their meat in the district. “Most of the animal carcasses of livestock that had been killed during the floods are being sold for the skins but several people have purchased trucks for their meat.
An entire truck of the animals cost me less than two or three cows so I bought it,” Atta said.
According to tehsil officials, the crackdown against butchers selling sub-standard meat is in full swing in Pind Dadan Khan and veterinary doctor Asif Raza has raided several butcher shops in the past couple of weeks.
The doctor threw out the sub-standard meat and the butchers have been sent to jail. Police officials and Raza have said that the crackdown will continue until they have checked all butchers shops in the district for the quality of meat. “Given the level of disease following the floods in both animals and humans who are eating them, it is critical that we monitor the situation very closely,” Raza said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 7th, 2010.
A local veterinary doctor raided several meat shops in the district and fined three butchers for selling substandard meat. One of the butchers was selling carrion meat.
Police officials were called to the Malik Atta’s butcher shop, where the latter had purchased an entire truck of dead animals that had been killed during the floods.
Atta confessed to selling their meat in the district. “Most of the animal carcasses of livestock that had been killed during the floods are being sold for the skins but several people have purchased trucks for their meat.
An entire truck of the animals cost me less than two or three cows so I bought it,” Atta said.
According to tehsil officials, the crackdown against butchers selling sub-standard meat is in full swing in Pind Dadan Khan and veterinary doctor Asif Raza has raided several butcher shops in the past couple of weeks.
The doctor threw out the sub-standard meat and the butchers have been sent to jail. Police officials and Raza have said that the crackdown will continue until they have checked all butchers shops in the district for the quality of meat. “Given the level of disease following the floods in both animals and humans who are eating them, it is critical that we monitor the situation very closely,” Raza said.
Published in The Express Tribune, September 7th, 2010.