date:Feb 17, 2013
The U.S. government has a statutory obligation to provide meat and poultry inspection services, AMI President J. Patrick Boyle told President Barack Obama in a letter sent to The White House today as discussions about the potential impact of sequestration and possible furloughs of meat and poultry inspectors made headlines. Without inspection, meat and poultry processing plants are prohibited by law from operating.
As the possibility of sequestration becomes more real, so does the thre