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Mounties have charged a Calgary-area farmer for mistreating his cattle and promoting uninspected meat.
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Final November complaints had been obtained by Alberta Agricultural Inspections and Investigations Division (IIS), RCMP Livestock Investigative Unit (LIU) and Wheatland County a few farmer slaughtering injured and sick cattle on his farm east of Calgary.
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It was additionally alleged that he bought meat that was not inspected and illegally disposed of useless cattle.
“The sale of uninspected meat has the potential to lead to severe sickness or demise because it has not been decided protected for human consumption,” RCMP stated in a press launch.
“In the middle of the investigation, proof was obtained concerning the male inflicting pointless struggling to cattle by not adequately caring for and feeding his animals.”
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RCMP, together with officers from the Canada Meals Inspection Company and Alberta Agriculture entered the farm, the place they are saying cattle are being slaughtered, 36 useless calves and tags for greater than 100 slaughtered livestock had been discovered.
There, Mounties arrested Peter Wiebe, 59, of Wheatland County and charged him with permitting animals to be in misery, unlawful disposal of useless cattle, inflicting pointless struggling to animals, dealing with livestock or livestock merchandise with out being licensed to be, the sale of uninspected meat, and failure to correctly label uninspected meat.
Weibe was launched and can seem within the Drumheller provincial court docket on March 24.
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