...still stinks all to be damned.
I've been all about Lake Whatcom lately... but there is interest in modifying the County Code to allow for slaughterhouses in the ag-zoned land in Whatcom County.
It is AB2012-300A. LINK
And now, this ordinance has taken a turn for the silly.
The WCC (Whatcom County Code) explicitly prohibits slaughterhouses on land zoned as ag land.
So, the ordinance is going to strike the word "slaughterhouse" and replace it with the word "packinghouse".
The logic is that, since the WCC offers no prohibition on packinghouses, it is just fine to allow packinghouses on ag land, because whatever packinghouses are... they are totally not slaughterhouses.
The definition of a packinghouse that is recommended for adoption into the WCC is as follows.
Packinghouse. A plant that both slaughters animals and subsequently processes carcasses into cured, smoked, canned, or other prepared meat products.
Yeah, totally different.
Jesus Tap-dancing Christ.
So... a packinghouse is what?... a slaughterhouse with benefits?
And this approach, from the I'm-not-touching-you pre-school of passive-aggressive thought, is being presented with a straight face to guide land use policy in the County, folks. I [bleep] you not.
If it looks like a slaughterhouse, smells like a slaughterhouse, and affects nearby property values like a slaughterhouse... it's a slaughterhouse. You can call it a packinghouse, you can call it a "livestock euthanization and beneficial reuse facility", you can call it whatever you want. But whatever you call it, it is going to stink all to be damned. Like a slaughterhouse. Because that's what it is.
Changing the name from slaughterhouse to packinghouse is as cosmetic as changing the name from "meth lab" to "sudafed recycling facility".
This ordinance is likely to be reviewed and amended in committee, and possibly introduced by Council on March 26th.
That's all I have at the moment.
'Nerd Out.
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