A North Bay rancher has disposed of 30 tons of grass-fed meat that he was blocked from selling because of a federal recall of possibly tainted beef from a Petaluma slaughterhouse.
Bill Niman’s BN Ranch was left with about 100,000 pounds of unsellable meat after the recall earlier this year, despite producing documents showing that its products had received proper inspections at Petaluma’s Rancho Feeding Corp.
A federal grand jury indictment unsealed Monday accuses Rancho Feeding’s owners and workers of circumventing U.S. Department of Agriculture inspections and slaughtering and selling cattle that had been condemned or had shown signs of eye cancer.
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