Re: Waterboarding...Cows?

On Jan 30, 5:39 pm, "Blue" <rainbowblue_rf...@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
(more on this story found here...)http://www.reuters.com/article/domesticNews/idUSN3021948220080130

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Humane Society said on Wednesday a California
slaughterhouse was using a range of torture including waterboarding to prod
unfit animals into the slaughterhouse so they could be processed into food
that may have ultimately ended up in school lunch programs.

The Humane Society displayed a video from its own undercover investigation
that it said showed abuse by workers at the Hallmark Meat Packing Co of
Chino, California. However, the name of the plant was not visible in the
video.

The video showed workers kicking cows, ramming them with forklift blades,
applying electric shocks and even using a hose to simulate the feeling of
drowning so the animals would revive long enough to pass federal inspection.

"The attempt was to make them so distressed and to cause them so much
suffering that these animals would get up and walk into the slaughterhouse,"
Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, told
reporters,

The company was not immediately available for comment.

Pacelle said the plant supplies meat to the Westland Meat Co, which is the
second-largest supplier of beef to the USDA Commodity Procurement Program
Branch. This branch distributes beef to needy families, the elderly and to
the national school lunch program.

He said the plant's use of injured and sick cows was not an isolated
incident in the United States and he called on the USDA to tighten
regulations regarding the ban on processing of "downer" cows.

Westland said in a statement that it had received the video from the Humane
Society that showed two of its employees "acting in disregard" of the
company's standards. It said operations have been suspended and the two
employees fired. The supervisor was also suspended.











See , the new "AlbertoGonzalles" dude said that there were certain
instances where waterboarding was appropriate. Time to get all the
high-muckidies of Hallmark Meat Packing Co. and put 'em to the test.
(we can't allow their carcasses to be used as part of the school lunch
program though, even if they do walk into the slaughterhouse of their
own accord).
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