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BY MAE SINGUAY
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Friday, June 30, 2017
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BACOLOD City – Without an active “chicken line” at the slaughterhouse in Barangay Handumanan, the city government is losing income, the operator said.
AVM Bernardo urged the city government to require the dressing of poultry products at the slaughterhouse by fully enforcing City Ordinance No. 459 series of 2008.
The ordinance punishes the illegal slaughter of animals in the city.
Requiring the dressing of all poultry products at the slaughterhouse will activate the facility’s chicken line, AVM Bernardo plant manager Glorydee Cometa wrote Mayor Evelio Leonardia on June 14.
The chicken line has been inactive since the slaughterhouse started operating in 2008.
At the time, city hall granted the request of marginal poultry raisers for a moratorium on the chicken line operation, said Cometa.
The AVM Bernardo “went along,” she said, “notwithstanding the fact that the non-operation of the chicken line substantially reduced the revenue of the slaughterhouse [by] P600,000 every month.”
Cometa claimed this does not include the “resultant loss of revenue by the city in the form of regulation fee on the dressed poultry products.”
Moreover, the National Meat Inspection Service was also pressuring the slaughterhouse operator to activate the chicken line, she added.
Vice Mayor El Cid Familiaran said the Sangguniang Panlungsod was furnished with a copy of Cometa’s letter.
The concern was referred to the committee on slaughterhouse and markets under Councilor Bartolome Orola, he said.
The committee shall call for a public hearing, and Orola shall file a committee report, Familiaran added./PN
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