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A USDA slaughterhouse for Schenectady?

    The story about Abduallah Halal, a new slaughterhouse on Broadway in Schenectady, could have had an unhappy ending, as in the business could have been shut down by the U.S. Department of Agriculture just seven months after it opened. That’s because, despite what owner Shareeze Ali thought, the USDA had never determined the butcher shop’s status, and never came around to inspect.
    Last week the agency did both, and said Ali can continue to do what she’s been doing: selling fi ve to 15 goats and sheep per week to customers. Slaughtering and cutting up other people’s animals for consumption at home is what custom butchers can do, and custom butcher is what the USDA determined Ali is.
    But now she wants to do, and be, more. She wants to process her own animals for retail sale, and the animals of others, as a full-fl edged, USDA-certified slaughterhouse. And that could be very good news not only for her, but for farmers, restaurants and consumers who want to buy locally grown meat in upstate New York. .........................>>>>.............................>>>>...................http://www.dailygazette.net/De.....r00702&AppName=1

I thought the headline was meant in regards to the taxpayers.