PG-13 Blog

This article in the Record Searchlight confirmed my decision not to eat red meat for the rest of my life. The sad thing is that they happened to capture this on video and prove that this goes on, but you know that this sort of abuse is happening all the time in many different slaughter houses. -----------"A Southern California meat-packing company was barred from supplying school lunch and other programs Wednesday while federal investigators look into videotapes that showed workers mistreating sick dairy cows. These practices are not only inhumane, but can also cause food borne illnesses that can endanger public health," the letters said. "Downed cattle are 58 times more likely to carry mad cow disease than other cattle. Downed cattle also are more likely to carry other food-borne illnesses like E. coli and Salmonella, which kill hundreds of Americans every year," the letters said. The video, released Wednesday by The Humane Society of the United States after a six-week undercover investigation, workers at a California slaughterhouse repeatedly kicking cows and ramming them with the blades of a forklift as the animals squealed in pain. It also showed plant workers jabbing in the eyes and applying electrical shocks to cows. In one scene, the workers shoot high-intensity water sprays up the cows' noses in what The Humane Society described as a form of animal "waterboarding," or torture that simulates drowning." ---------- see what I mean? Horrible.