Volume 126, No. 115
Wednesday, April 12, 2017 NEWS
Cam statue relocated PAGE 4
SPORTS
Rams win two over UNC PAGE 10
On-campus meat harvest facility sparks controversy on campus The proposed floor plan for the JBS Global Food Innovation Center which has inspired controvery among critics. COURTESY OF COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURAL SCIENCES
By Haley Candelario @H_Candelario98
Some students have expressed outrage and started a petition in response to the announcement that Colorado State University will build a new facility that houses a meat harvesting facility, which some students call a slaughterhouse.
Construction for the JBS Global Food Innovation Center was announced March 28 after CSU entered a partnership with JBS USA, a food processing company based in Greeley. The partnership is valued at $12.5 million, according to an article in SOURCE. The facility, according to the building proposal on the College
of Agriculture’s website, will be a pilot plant and will include a complete livestock and meat processing center, spanning the meat-animal harvesting process. Ajay Menon, the Dean of the College of Agricultural Sciences, said the facility is part of the second phase of renovation projects for the Animal Sciences building. Menon said the new facility
will teach students in the meat sciences program to ethically harvest animals since the harvesting process is an important part of getting animal protein. “There’s a whole debate out there about how you treat animals and how are they harvested and things of that nature,” Menon said. “We have to teach the students see MEAT on page 4 >>
A&C
Chabad hosts Passover Seder PAGE 11