Dagupan will operate own slaughterhouse soon

By January 13, 2008Business, News

FINALLY, Dagupan will soon build and operate its own modern slaughterhouse that could become the model in the province.

Vice Mayor Belen Fernandez announced this after the courtesy call made by the city council on Mayor Alipio Fernandez Jr. last January 7. She said the establishment of the new slaughterhouse is one of the priority projects spelled out by the mayor for 2008.

“A slaughterhouse for Dagupan City is long overdue,” she said.

Dagupan’s old and dilapidated slaughterhouse near the bank of the Pantal River was closed in the 1980s by the National Meat and Inspection Commission for being sub-standard and unsanitary.

Since then, the city depended on meat and meat products supplied by a privately-owned slaughterhouse in barangay Tebeng in the city and later from the double a slaughterhouse in Mangaldan.

Vice Mayor Fernandez said she was informed by meat vendors at the Malimgas Public Market that besides Mangaldan, the other town supplying meat to Dagupan is Malasiqui.

A report stated that the fact that meat coming from Malasiqui usually no longer undergoes the usual sanitary inspection before this is passed to vendors in an adjacent private market at much lower prices.

Fernandez earlier assured the meat vendors in the city that the city council will support the construction and operation of a modern slaughterhouse.

The location of the abattoir has yet to be finalized.

“We in the city council will give our whole-hearted support to this project,” said Fernandez, adding that the city intends to seek the help of Speaker Jose de Venecia Jr. for this undertaking.

The National Meat and Inspection Commission will also be asked not only to boost the funding available but also provide the necessary guidelines for the project.—LM

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