N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 72-a: Feeding of garbage, offal or carcasses to cattle, swine or poultry prohibited

§ 72-a. Feeding of garbage, offal or carcasses to cattle, swine or

poultry prohibited. 1. Garbage fed to cattle, swine or poultry

contributes to the spread of vesicular exanthema, cholera, erysipelas,

foot and mouth disease, trichinosis and other infectious animal

diseases. Meat from animals so afflicted, when consumed by human beings,

is a primary source of trichinosis and other human sickness. It is

therefore declared to be the public policy of this state to prohibit the

feeding of garbage, offal or carcasses to cattle, swine or poultry to

assist in the eradication of animal diseases and for the protection of

the public health and public welfare.

2. Definitions. When used in this section:

a. "Garbage" means putrescible animal and poultry wastes from the

handling, processing, preparation, cooking and consumption of foods.

b. "Offal" means the waste parts of butchered animals or poultry.

c. "Carcasses" means the dead bodies of animals or poultry.

d. "Person" means any individual, firm, partnership, public or private

corporation, public or private institution, public authority, municipal

corporation and the state.

e. Notwithstanding anything in the preceding paragraphs of this

subdivision to the contrary, animal feeds which have been heat rendered

by a rendering plant at a temperature sufficient to make the product

commercially sterile shall not be considered garbage, offal or carcasses

within the meaning of this section.

3. a. It shall be unlawful for any person to feed garbage, offal, or

carcasses, whether cooked or uncooked, to cattle, swine or poultry.

b. This section shall not apply to any individual who feeds garbage

from his own household only, to cattle, swine or poultry on his own

premises.

c. Violation of this section shall constitute a class A misdemeanor.