N.Y. Agriculture & Markets Law § 96-a: Declaration of policy and purpose

§ 96-a. Declaration of policy and purpose. Whereas unsanitary

conditions in the slaughtering of animals and fowl for food have been

found to exist in this state, and whereas such conditions endanger the

health and welfare of the people of the state, it is hereby declared to

be a matter of legislative determination that the supervision of the

slaughtering of animals and fowl is in the public interest, and that

this article is enacted in the exercise of the police power of the state

and its purposes are the protection of the public health.