Lapu-Lapu drug test: 16 slaughterhouse employees positive

Futch Anthony Inso 02/10/2024

CEBU CITY, Philippines- Sixteen out of 77 employees from the Lapu-Lapu City Slaughterhouse tested positive for illegal drug use. This was confirmed by Garry Lao, executive director of the City of Lapu-Lapu Office for Substance Abuse Prevention…

Zafra to DVMF: Help upland growers find a legitimate slaughterhouse

Delta Dyrecka Letigio 10/23/2021

CEBU CITY, Philippines — Cebu City Councilor Philip Zafra is asking the Department of Veterinary Medicine and Fisheries (DVMF) to help hog and poultry raisers who are in the city’s mountain barangays find a legitimate slaughterhouse that…

Virginia Farms Inc. unveils modern slaughterhouse facility and meat plant

Rhobie A. Ruaya 10/07/2019

Cebu City, Philippines–“Presko, limpyo, ug barato.” (Fresh, clean, and affordable) This is the promise of Virginia Farms Inc. to its buyers and loyal customers in the past 51 years of providing quality pork meat in Cebu. The…

Seoul closes biggest dog slaughterhouse complex

AFP 11/22/2018

SOUTH KOREAN officials on Thursday began to dismantle the country’s largest canine slaughterhouse complex, as animal rights activists push to end the custom of eating dog meat. About one million dogs are eaten a year in South…

Talisay slaughterhouse extended for 3 years

John Michael Aroa 06/25/2018

Talisay City Veterinarian head Dr. Mary Thesa Alo said that the city slaughterhouse was given another 3-year extension to operate after it passed the National Meat Inspection Service (NMIS) last Friday, June 22 this year. Alo also…

City abattoir faces closure

Chris Ligan 10/14/2017

RATHER than repair it, Mandaue City Hall chose to close its slaughterhouse in Barangay Labugon at an unspecified date. An ordinance to close down the slaughterhouse or abattoir was passed on first reading at the Mandaue City…

Tom O. to close slaughterhouse

Nestle L. Semilla 07/14/2016

Cebu City Mayor Tomas Osmeña is planning to close the city-owned slaughterhouse in Barangay Subangdaku, Mandaue City and build a sewage treatment plant there instead. Osmeña said this would be another way to streamline the city government’s…

Cebu City eyes slaughterhouse closure

07/12/2016

Left with several concerns including millions in unpaid real property taxes, the Cebu City government is now looking at the possibility of closing the city slaughterhouse located in Barangay Subangdaku in Mandaue City. An option is to…

Mandaue City threatens to close abattoir anew

Jose Santino S. Bunachita 08/20/2015

Mandaue City is again going after Cebu City’s slaughterhouse which is located within Mandaue City. Mandaue City Treasurer Regal Oliva sent a final demand letter, asking Cebu City to secure a mayor’s business permit for the slaughterhouse.…

Cebu City lawyers prepare to parry off Mandaue

Doris C. Bongcac 10/26/2014

CEBU City Mayor Michael Rama called for a meeting with City Hall lawyers together with the head of the city’s slaughterhouse  on Monday to prepare their response to the Mandaue city government’s claim that  the  slaughterhouse in…

Mandaue red flags ‘dirty’ Subangdaku slaughterhouse

Anie M. Paujana 10/24/2014

The Mandaue City government yesterday pressed on with its offensive against its counterpart in Cebu City, this time releasing a laundry list of violations of the controversial abattoir in barangay Subangdaku. Giovanni Y. Tianero, the city legal…

Abattoir may halt operations if bridge gets demolished

Doris C. Bongcac 10/19/2014

Cebu City’s slaughterhouse won’t be accessible to anyone if the Mandaue City government makes good its threat to demolish the concrete bridge leading to the facility. Dr. Alice Utlang, former City Veterinarian and head of slaughterhouse operations,…

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