AR-News: (IN) Diseased poultry is easy meat for money-makers

[Animalconcerns]

MUMBAI: Are we ingesting infections including the dreaded ‘H5N1A’ or bird
flu through that yummy butter chicken or chicken soup? Animal activists
believe unhygienic conditions in meatproduction units leave the room wide
open for such a possibility.
...
Though laws in India govern poultry farming and slaughter conditions, they
are hardly followed, leaving the gates open for viruses to creep in. At
some places in Crawford Market, a well-networked hotelier can even get a
dead chicken illegally, but cheap. 
...
At illegal meat shops, there is absolutely no one to check whether the
meat is diseased before it is sold. At the legal ones, activists complain,
no inspection of the animals’ health is conducted.

“Our investigators have never seen meat from either licensed or unlicensed
facilities being rejected for human consumption because at the end of the
day it means money,’’ says Ms Sawhney.

She cites an instance where a PETA investigator noticed 10 severely
injured and diseased animals on carts waiting to be killed at the Deonar
abattoir, though they should have been rejected. However, Dr V.N. Purikar,
who heads the BMC’s team of 26 veterinarians at Deonar, denies that his
team cleared injured animals for slaughter. 

full story:
http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/articleshow/453844.cms

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