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Humane Treatment of Livestock Brought into Question with Damning Video from HSUS.
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Video footage has been released by the Humane Society of the United States showing workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection; and even a veterinary version of waterboarding in which high-intensity water sprays are shot up animals' noses. The Humane Society points out that these are all violations of state and federal laws designed to prevent animal cruelty and to keep unhealthy animals out of the food supply.
The President of the Humane Society of the United States, Wayne Pacelle, says the footage was taken at Hallmark Meat Packing in Chino, California. Hallmark's operations manager, Steve Mendell, expressed disbelief that employees used stun guns to get sick or injured animals on their feet for inspection. He said - that's impossible - electrical prods are not allowed on the property. As for other actions seen in the video, Mendell used such words as - I can't imagine that - that's absolutely not true - and impossible.
The American Meat Institute says the practices shown in the just-released video are disturbing and stand in sharp contrast to animal handling practices in the meat industry broadly. AMI Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, Janet Riley, says the video is - simply not typical of animal handling at U.S. meat plants.
New Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer quickly issued a statement saying that USDA will be investigating the facts behind this video and that as a result of the investigation, any violations of food safety or humane handling laws will be immediately acted upon.
One question that begs to be answered (and was raised by Schafer) is if you had such video footage- why would you not release it immediately? What's the agenda of the Humane Society by holding it? Secreatry Schafer said it is unfortunate that the Humane Society of the United States did not present this information to us when these alleged violations occurred in the fall of 2007. He adds - had we known at the time the alleged violations occurred, we would have initiated our investigation sooner and taken appropriate actions at that time.
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/CA_2008_investigation?qp_source=gaba89
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Video footage has been released by the Humane Society of the United States showing workers at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to stand up for inspection; and even a veterinary version of waterboarding in which high-intensity water sprays are shot up animals' noses. The Humane Society points out that these are all violations of state and federal laws designed to prevent animal cruelty and to keep unhealthy animals out of the food supply.
The President of the Humane Society of the United States, Wayne Pacelle, says the footage was taken at Hallmark Meat Packing in Chino, California. Hallmark's operations manager, Steve Mendell, expressed disbelief that employees used stun guns to get sick or injured animals on their feet for inspection. He said - that's impossible - electrical prods are not allowed on the property. As for other actions seen in the video, Mendell used such words as - I can't imagine that - that's absolutely not true - and impossible.
The American Meat Institute says the practices shown in the just-released video are disturbing and stand in sharp contrast to animal handling practices in the meat industry broadly. AMI Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, Janet Riley, says the video is - simply not typical of animal handling at U.S. meat plants.
New Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer quickly issued a statement saying that USDA will be investigating the facts behind this video and that as a result of the investigation, any violations of food safety or humane handling laws will be immediately acted upon.
One question that begs to be answered (and was raised by Schafer) is if you had such video footage- why would you not release it immediately? What's the agenda of the Humane Society by holding it? Secreatry Schafer said it is unfortunate that the Humane Society of the United States did not present this information to us when these alleged violations occurred in the fall of 2007. He adds - had we known at the time the alleged violations occurred, we would have initiated our investigation sooner and taken appropriate actions at that time.
https://community.hsus.org/campaign/CA_2008_investigation?qp_source=gaba89