CANADA MEAT PROBE
August 1st, 2004
BY MONICA DOBIE
A PUBLIC audit has cleared Alberta, Canada, meat packers of profiteering from CDN$402 million federal-provincial benefit packages distributed during the country's recent BSE crisis. The probe concluded that packers legitimately tripled their profits during this time because cattle supplies exceeded packing plants' capacity and the domestic and limited export-market remained strong.
A PUBLIC audit has cleared Alberta, Canada, meat packers of profiteering from CDN$402 million federal-provincial benefit packages distributed during the country's recent BSE crisis. The probe concluded that packers legitimately tripled their profits during this time because cattle supplies exceeded packing plants' capacity and the domestic and limited export-market remained strong.
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