Denver’s Initiative 309 slaughterhouse ban impacts national lamb supply chain
By Lindy Browning | Contributor, Rocky Mountain Voice
As J Paul Brown of Ignacio, Colo., gets ready to bring his sheep back to the lowlands for the fall roundup, he contemplates the impact of Denver’s Initiative 309, which singles out the largest lamb processing plant in Colorado for closure.
He worries that, if passed, the state has, yet again, compromised the domestic food chain.
Superior Farms has been singled out by this ballot initiative for closure after an animal rights activist group, Pro-Animal Future, championed the initiative. Superior Farms has been in business since its founding in 1964 and is a 100 percent employee owned facility that currently employs upwards of 170 direct employees.
“I find it so ironic that the very same people, who support loc...