Human remains may have been among farm meat

It's stories like this that make me glad I'm a veggietarian.

For those outside of Canada, let me give you a bit of a rundown. A little over two years ago, police in the lower mainland of British Columbia (i.e. Vancouver and area) began investigating the disappearance of women dating back some 20 years. Most were prostitutes, which apparently don't rate too high up on the human scale with the authorities. Initially it was thought these women may have been victims of the Green River killer, Gary Ridgway, in Washington state. (Washington and British Columbia being border buddies and all.) But that wasn't the case. Police soon discovered bodies buried on a pig farm near Port Coquitlam, B.C. after doing a search of the property. (Place looked more like a pig factory to me than an actual farm. But I digress.) DNA testing proved these women to be among those missing.

Yesterday, B.C.'s provincial health officer said he couldn't "rule out the possibility that human remains were among meat processed" at the pig farm, owned in part by the accused, Robert Pickton. Thankfully this meat didn't make it into the commercial market, but it had been distributed to friends and neighbours for free and during barbecues.

Just another horrible discovery for the victims' families to endure.

I dunno about anyone else, but if I had meat in my freezer from this guy and found out about all the bodies being found on his property, I wouldn't even want to keep it. Anything associated with the place would conjure up vile images.

http://www.cbc.ca/stories/2004/03/10/canada/pigfarm031004