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Ensure the Welfare of Farm Animals and the Safety of Our Children!
Target: U.S. Government Accountability OfficeSponsored by: Care2
In the end of January, the Humane Society of the United States released a horrific undercover video of gross mistreatment of cows at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Company in California.
The video showed non-ambulatory (or "downer") cows being shoved, shocked and forced to stand up in order to pass federal slaughterhouse inspection. Meat from these "downer" cows presents a higher risk of E. coli and salmonella and is banned from entering the food supply under federal law.
Shockingly, this company is one of the top suppliers of beef to the National School Lunch Program! This potentially unsafe meat that comes from abused animals could have gone to feed our children at school.
U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), George Miller (D-CA), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) have submitted a letter to the Government Accountability Office, asking for thorough examination of three main areas:
Please sign the petition today to ensure the welfare of our farm animals and the safety of our children.
The video showed non-ambulatory (or "downer") cows being shoved, shocked and forced to stand up in order to pass federal slaughterhouse inspection. Meat from these "downer" cows presents a higher risk of E. coli and salmonella and is banned from entering the food supply under federal law.
Shockingly, this company is one of the top suppliers of beef to the National School Lunch Program! This potentially unsafe meat that comes from abused animals could have gone to feed our children at school.
U.S. Reps. Rosa DeLauro (D-CT), George Miller (D-CA), Carolyn McCarthy (D-NY) and Senator Dick Durbin (D-IL) have submitted a letter to the Government Accountability Office, asking for thorough examination of three main areas:
- The process for protecting our students from dangerous food,
- How quickly and accurately schools can assess and pull potentially contaminated products, and
- The information, guidance and resources about inspections, suppliers' histories, and safe handling practices the USDA provides to local authorities.
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We signed the “Ensure the Welfare of Farm Animals and the Safety of Our Children!” petition!
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I looked at this news in horror!!! I was in total shock how this was let to happen!! How could they get away with this for so long??? I think the inspectors should go up on charges!! Because they could not have hidden that kind of abuse every time the inspectors came!! I would charge them as well!!
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I find it very hard to believe people are willing to risk the life of a child all for a few dollars profit. Not to mention the crulety exhibited towards these obviously sick animals. Just when you think you've seen all the bad the world has to offer, someone does something like this, and I want to throw my hands in the air and scream. Our country is in very bad shape morally and it scares me, I can't imagine how much worse it will get before my two grandchildren grow up. I can only hope that things will change, and the world will become a safer place to live for them.
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There is no excuse and no justfication for this. We need a zero-tolerance policy in effect with these types of things. If we can't monitor the treatment and quality of life of these animals, then we are clearly consuming far too many of them.
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I saw the horrid video of the abuse these cows endured. It sickens me. If we are going to raise and slaughter these innocent animals for our own benefit, they deserve the best treatment possible. This is the reason I'm a vegetarian...I refuse to contribute to the abuse of innocent animals!
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Well well well... Aren't we a wonderful country? We TORTURE animals and feed them, diseased, to kids at school! It's a lose-lose. The animals lose. The kids lose.
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DISCUSTING
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The abuses we all think could not happen because inspectors are around clearly do in fact happen. The undercover gentleman chose that plant at random, which suggests to me that had he chosen another, he would have been equally likely to capture such abuses. The horror those cattle endured by being shocked in the face, having water blasted in their faces and forced down their throats, being repeatedly rolled by forklifts and dragged, is beyond comprehension and yet it surely goes on daily, while the government chooses to look away. There is no excuse for a lack of scrutiny of these plants where animals' lives end. I hope the airing of the video from that plant motivates the government to place inspectors at these plants around the clock. Clearly, some of these workers were not only doing what they did to get the cows to their place of slaughter, but also out of obscene cruelty. Anyone who could do any of those overt acts is without a conscience and should be removed from society. What about all the incidents that have gone undetected for decades?
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