Mike Pearson explains how a poll measure in Denver, Colorado, may affect livestock processing throughout the nation.
Voters will determine in November whether or not livestock processing might be accomplished in Denver, Colorado, after an animal rights group received the measure on the poll.
In November 2022, an identical measure was on the poll in Sioux Falls, South Dakota however the measure failed.
Now, voters get to make the identical resolution in Denver.
The measure was placed on the poll by the group, Professional Animal Future, and the hope is that if it is profitable then the momentum will unfold.
Professional Animal Future operates underneath the umbrella of the nationwide group, Pax Fauna– Animal Liberation.
If voters would undertake the ordinance then in January 2026, the processing of livestock would finish and the development of latest services could be not allowed.
The one processor positioned in Denver, Colorado presently is Superior Farms which course of 300,000 lambs a yr and has been in enterprise since 1964.
A research by Colorado State College estimates 3,000 jobs shall be misplaced and $900,000 shall be misplaced in financial exercise within the space if Superior Farms is shut down.
Farm Progress America is a each day have a look at key points in agriculture. It’s produced and introduced by Mike Pearson, farm broadcaster and host of This Week in Agribusiness.
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