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MEAT COALITION REPORTS NEW EPA REGS WOULD CLOSE 74 PROCESSING FACILITIES
Mar. 28, 2024
Agri-Pulse reports:
The meat industry and environmental groups have submitted opposing comments on EPA's proposed discharge limits for slaughterhouses and processing plants. The industry says EPA has underestimated the impacts of its proposal, while the green groups pressed the agency to adopt a more stringent alternative.
To read their comments click here.
The Meat and Poultry Products Industry Coalition, which includes the Meat Institute, the American Farm Bureau Federation and the North American Renderers Association, says the agency's preferred alternative would close 74 facilities, not the 16 estimated by EPA. In addition, the coalition says, "The projected number of near-term job losses associated with these facility closures would increase from nearly 17,000 estimated in the proposed rule to nearly 80,000 direct job losses from plant closures."
A coalition of 45 animal welfare, community and environmental groups, however, calls EPA's preferred option the weakest of three presented, and "is inconsistent with federal law -- not least because it is motivated by a desire to avoid disruptions to the country's meat supply, even though claims of past disruptions have been resoundingly debunked."
To read their comments click here.
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