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| Inmates ask 'Where's the beef?' |
| By Denver Post |
| Published: 02/19/2001 |
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Inmates at the Moffat County (Colo.) Jail are complaining about their meals. Instead of beef, chicken and pork, prisoners are served deer and elk donated by the owner of a local meat processing plant who is also the jail administrator. Recently an anonymous person has been mailing out and posting a letter claiming that the sheriff's office is illegally serving prisoners wild meat and moldy bread. Going one step beyond the letter writer, prisoners have been grousing that they believe what they are being served is 'road kill.' Jeff Lawrence of the Consumer Protection Division of the Colorado Department of Public Health and Environment said that as long as the meat has been processed at a business that is licensed and inspected several times a year by the state health department, it can be donated to a jail and served there. Wild game meat that is sold and served at restaurants must come from a processing plant that has a U.S. Department of Agriculture inspector on site. Lawrence said it's long been a practice at Moffat County and some other jails to serve elk and deer meat that is occasionally donated by the Colorado Division of Wildlife, such as when an animal is confiscated from poachers. The venison and elk served at Moffat County now comes from T&D Processing, a meat business owned by Lt. Dean Herndon, the new jail administrator. His business is licensed to process meat for hunters but not for sale. Herndon said the meat he is giving away was left behind by out-of-state hunters after they made off with what they really came for - the antlers. In the past, Herndon said, he has donated some of that meat to the Moffat County Department of Social Services. This year, he decided to give 250 pounds to the jail. |
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