Meat Stinks! Foul Smell from Ogden Meat Facility Prompts Pro-Vegan Appeal from PETA

For Immediate Release:
July 25, 2025

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Nicole Perreira 202-483-7382

Following reports that a putrid odor in Ogden has been traced to an abandoned butcher shop called Mountain West Meats, PETA plans to place a billboard near the foul-smelling facility, encouraging everyone to help prevent the stench of decomposing flesh in their own barbecue grill pans by going vegan.

The offensive odor has apparently sent residents scrambling indoors to seek relief from the stench, and HAZMAT teams have been called in to help with the literal bloody mess of a cleanup process. Reports indicate the butcher shop also has mold growing on the ceiling and other structural issues, and the whereabouts of the shop’s owner remain unknown.

“The stench of death emanating from this filthy facility and from backyard cookouts is enough to make anyone lose their lunch, but nothing is more stomach-churning than the living nightmare animals experience every day at the slaughterhouse,” says PETA Founder Ingrid Newkirk. “PETA urges everyone to go vegan, sparing pigs, cows, and other animals from being turned from curious, living individuals into rotting flesh.”

PETA points out that pigs are soothed by music, and cows mourn when a loved one dies or when they’re separated from each other. Yet in the meat industry, they’re crammed into filthy sheds or kept on crowded feedlots and subjected to tail docking, castration, and other mutilations with no pain relief. Eventually, they’re forced onto transport trucks for a terrifying journey to a slaughterhouse, where workers slit their throats—often while they’re still conscious.

Each person who goes vegan spares nearly 200 animals every year, dramatically shrinks their food-related carbon footprint, and slashes their risk of suffering from cancer, heart disease, strokes, diabetes, and obesity. PETA’s free vegan starter kit is filled with tips to help anyone looking to make the switch.

PETA—whose motto reads, in part, that “animals are not ours to eat”—points out that Every Animal Is Someone and offers free Empathy Kits for people who need a lesson in kindness. For more information, please visit PETA.org or follow PETA on X, Facebook, or Instagram.