CANADA: Aylmer Meat Packers guilty - (K-W Record (Canada))
December 20, 2007 – 7:25 pmLONDON, Ont.–Richard (Butch) Clare and his company, Aylmer Meat Packers, have, according to this story, pleaded guilty to selling meat that was not inspected and have been fined $125,000.
Clare immediately paid the fine. He has also been barred from the meat-processing industry for a year.
Clare told the judge hes still involved in the livestock industry in everything short of meat packing. He also said he never sold any meat he would not eat himself and described his plant as so spotless people could eat off the floor.
Charges against his two sons were withdrawn. One of the sons, Jeff, operating at Butch Clare Livestock Ltd., was recently fined $25,000 after he pleaded guilty to charges laid by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency for moving cattle more than 30 months old into the U.S. in early 2006. Jeff was also listed as the principal investor in the purchase of the former Barton […]
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