In Canada,
the beef packers that are caught peddling dangerous beef pick up and carry on.
In the U.S. they are bankrupted.
Rancho
Feeding Corp., shut down after recalling nine million pounds of beef harvested
from diseased animals and without the benefit of federal inspection, is
negotiating a California company.
Marin Sun
Farms spokesman Jeff Bordes told Meatingplace
magazine that the grass-fed beef producer is in the process of
purchasing Rancho’s plant in Petaluma, Calif.
Rancho
announced the massive recall Feb. 8 and is under federal investigation for selling
“diseased and unsound” animals.
David
Evans, president and CEO of Marin Sun Farms e-mailed Meatingplace that the closure of the
Petaluma plant was devastating to him and other ranchers in Marin County.
He said he
is committed to efforts to help build a sustainable food model, with hopes to
reopen the facility so that he and other local ranchers will again be able to
process their livestock there.
Among
Canadian companies that skated through massive recalls were J.M, Schneider
Corp. after lunchmates poisoned school children and Maple Leaf Foods whose
listeria-riddled luncheon meats killed more than 20 customers.
