Video Reveals Violations of Laws, Abuse of Cows at Slaughter

[Sandhusker]

:roll: OOH, OT you are so witty :roll: NOT. OT be in denial that there is Spongiform encepalopathy in endeginous US animals. The animals in the videos looked very similar to the early videos from britian when their major out break happened. How many animals from the video were tested? none . How many made it into the human foodchain? ALL. And you want to make some smartass comment about canadian cattle. None of then had the c upside down v then n brand so all the animals were american born and bred boy just doesn't that inspire confidence is the high quality of US beef. Not so smart now.

What brands did those cows have on them, Q?

 

[QUESTION]

Sh why are you trying to shift the topic of this thread away from something important. But i understand how bad it is for US beef to have the US consumer see the videos of those maggies flipping /flopping and unable to rise. Then realize this meat is being fed to school kids knowing that the meat comes from cows showing clinical signs of BSE/BASE which are not being tested. :roll: Couldn't find brands on the maggies is there anyway to tell where they came from? No need for an Id program or BSE/BASE testing of high risk cattle they are in the US. SH don't try to confuse the issue here it is animal cruelty and foodsafety. The fact is that there is evidence on tape of downers being used for human consumption :shock: this is banned . Are you and OT going to defend this ?

 

[flounder]

Release No. 0025.08
Contact:
Office of Communications (202) 720-4623


STATEMENT BY AGRICULTURE SECRETARY ED SCHAFER REGARDING THE HUMANE SOCIETY
OF THE UNITED STATES' HANDLING ALLEGATIONS

January 30, 2008

"I am deeply concerned about the allegations made regarding inhumane
handling of non-ambulatory disabled cattle in a federally inspected
slaughter establishment.

"We are confident in our inspection system and the food safety regulations
that ensure the safety and wholesomeness of the food supply. Among the
federal safeguards in place, the U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA)
Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) prohibits non-ambulatory disabled
cattle and cattle tissue identified as specified risk materials for use in
human food.

"I have called on the Office of the Inspector General to work with FSIS and
the USDA's Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) to conduct an investigation
into this matter. As a result of the investigation, any violations of food
safety or humane handling laws will be immediately acted upon.

"While we are conducting our investigation, today, USDA has indefinitely
suspended Westland Meat Company as a supplier to Federal food and nutrition
programs. Westland Meat Company will not be permitted to produce or deliver
any products currently under contract. Under the suspension, no further
contracts will be awarded to Westland Meat Company. The suspension will
remain in effect until all investigations are complete and appropriate
action is taken by the Department. An administrative hold has been placed on
all Westland Meat Products that are in, or destined for Federal food and
nutrition programs.

"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. Had we known at the time the alleged violations occurred, we
would have initiated our investigation sooner, and taken appropriate actions
at that time."


http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usdahome?contentidonly=true&contentid=2008/01/0025.xml


like i said, closing the barn door after the mad cows got loose.

how many more facilities just like this one are around ???

how many of our children and or elderly are now needlessly exposed ???

i know of one slaughter facility in Texas just like it. can't say to much
about it though due to my relations with one of the workers on the kill floor. he retired last year anyway. but i would bet my last dollar that there are many more slaughtering facilities out there that are just like this one. ...


TSS

Video Reveals Violations of Laws, Abuse of Cows at Slaughterhouse

By Rick Weiss

Washington Post Staff Writer

Wednesday, January 30, 2008; A04

Video footage being released today shows 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 -- all violations of state and federal laws designed to prevent animal cruelty and to keep unhealthy animals, such as those with mad cow disease, out of the food supply.

Moreover, the companies where these practices allegedly occurred are major suppliers of meat for the nation's school lunch programs, including in Maryland, according to a company official and federal documents.
The footage was taken by an undercover investigator for an animal welfare group, who wore a customized video camera under his clothes while working at the facility last year. It is evidence that anti-cruelty and food safety rules are inadequate, and that Agriculture Department inspection and enforcement need to be enhanced, said officials with the Humane Society of the United States, which coordinated the project.

"These were not rogue employees secretly doing these things," the investigator said in a telephone interview on the condition of anonymity because he hopes to infiltrate other slaughterhouses. "This is the pen manager and his assistant doing this right in the open."

The investigator and Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society, said the footage was taken at Hallmark Meat Packing in Chino, Calif. Hallmark sells meat for processing to Westland Meat Co. in Chino, according to Westland President Steve Mendell, who is also Hallmark's operations manager.

Over the past five years, Westland has sold about 100 million pounds of frozen beef, valued at $146 million, to the Agriculture Department's commodities program, which supplies food for school lunches and programs for the needy, according to federal documents.

In the 2004-05 school year, the Agriculture Department honored Westland with its Supplier of the Year award for the National School Lunch Program.

In an interview, Mendell expressed disbelief that employees used stun guns to get sick or injured animals on their feet for inspection.

"That's impossible," he said, adding that "electrical prods are not allowed on the property."

Asked whether his employees use fork lifts to get moribund animals off the ground, he said: "I can't imagine that."

Asked whether water was sprayed up animals' noses to get them to stand up, he said: "That's absolutely not true."

"We have a massive humane treatment program here that we follow to the n{+t}{+h} degree, so this doesn't even sound possible," Mendell said. "I don't stand out there all day, but to me it would be next to impossible."

California law and USDA regulations do not allow disabled animals to be dragged by chains, lifted with forklifts, or, with few exceptions, to enter the food supply, all of which happened at Hallmark during the investigator's time there last fall, he said.

Video images show those activities, as well as a trailer with Hallmark's name on it.
One reason that regulations call for keeping downers -- cows that cannot stand up -- out of the food supply is that they may harbor bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease. It is caused by a virus-like infectious particle that can cause a fatal brain disease in people.

Another is because such animals have, in many cases, been wallowing in feces, posing added risks of E. coli and salmonella contamination.

The Humane Society and other groups have for years urged Congress to pass legislation that would tighten oversight at slaughterhouses.

Kenneth Petersen, assistant administrator of the Food Safety and Inspection Service's Office of Field Operations, whose 7,600 inspectors monitor the nation's 6,200 slaughterhouses and meat-processing plants for the Agriculture Department, said he had not seen the video. He added that he would have preferred that the Humane Society contacted the agency directly.

But he said use of a Hot Shot -- a brand-name electric device used to get dawdling cows to move along -- is "not allowed" as a means of getting a downer on its feet.

In the video, handlers repeatedly apply powerful shocks to the heads, necks, spines and rectums of immobile cows.

"That's certainly not a way to have them stand up or a correct way to move them," Petersen said.
Raising a cow on the prongs of a forklift is also not allowed, he said.

"We've made it clear that mechanical means to try to elevate an animal is not considered humane," Petersen said.
If he had evidence that the practices in the video were going on at a slaughterhouse, "I would immediately suspend them as an establishment," he said. "You're done. You're suspended. Everything stops. That's what we call an egregiously inhumane handling violation."

Temple Grandin, a professor of animal science at Colorado State University and an expert in slaughter practices, called the Humane Society footage "one of the worst animal-abuse videos I have ever viewed."
The investigator said a USDA inspector appeared twice a day, at 6:30 a.m. and about 12:30 p.m., to look at each cow to be slaughtered that day. The practices occurred before the inspector's appearance, he said, with the goal of getting the animals on their feet for the short time the inspector was there.

"Every day, I would see downed cattle too sick or injured to stand or walk arriving at the slaughterhouse," he said. "Workers would do anything to get the cows to stand on their feet."

USDA regulations say that if an animal goes down after it is inspected but before it is slaughtered, then it must be reinspected. But that rarely, if ever, happened, according to the Humane Society.

"They wanted to do whatever they could to get them into the kill box, including jabbing them in the eye, slamming into them with a forklift and simulating drowning or waterboarding the animals," Pacelle said -- all practices that can be seen in the video.

Mad cow disease is extremely rare in the United States, but of the 15 cases documented in North America -- most of them in Canada -- the vast majority have been traced to downer cattle. When the United States had its first case a few years ago, 44 nations closed their borders to U.S. beef, Pacelle said, costing the nation billions of dollars.
To sneak downers past inspectors, Pacelle said, is "penny-wise and pound-foolish."


You can watch the footage at http://tinyurl.com/yul2lw . The Washington Post story is below.

*******

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/29/AR2008012903054.html



[Docket No. 03-025IFA] FSIS Prohibition of the Use of Specified Risk Materials for Human Food and Requirement for the Disposition of Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle

9/13/2005

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/03-025IFA/03-025IFA-2.pdf


tss

 

[Anonymous]

Sh why are you trying to shift the topic of this thread away from something important. But i understand how bad it is for US beef to have the US consumer see the videos of those maggies flipping /flopping and unable to rise.

Questionable---Did you ever realize that the damage done to the US demand affects Canadian producers just as much or more--since you're still tied to the teat of the US markets with your generic beef and your so called cattlemans organizations CCA/ABP/SSGA that are tied to the hip of the Multinational Packers have been unable to/refused to open any outside markets :???: :wink:

Last I looked Canadian fats were still bringing $100- $200 less than what the comparable US animal brought- and cull cows were less than that....

And now your jumping for joy that something happened that might cut demand more :???: What a ding-dong.....

 

[Red Robin]

I'm not for mistreating cattle in any form. Those downers should have been shot then drug to the rendering pen. That aside, it is beyond comprehension that the mistreatment of any animal ever makes the news with the way so many humans are mistreated. Amazing. Get a grip on what's newsworthy.

 

[Manitoba_Rancher]

Why would anyone take anything like that to market??? They should be humanely put down and not have to go thru that stress of being bounced around with a forklift. Someone can only hope the guys that did that to those cows come back as downer cows someday.

 

[RobertMac]

Why would anyone take anything like that to market??? They should be humanely put down and not have to go thru that stress of being bounced around with a forklift. Someone can only hope the guys that did that to those cows come back as downer cows someday.

:agree:
If you wouldn't butcher the animal and put it in your freezer to feed to your family, don't take it to town!!!!!!!!!

 

[QUESTION]

OT i am not jumping for joy quite the opposite. Again you are trying to mislead :roll: The same cows are not even allowed in the canadian packing plants. Not to mention the fines that would be levied against the the trucker, owner for trying to do this type of thing. All those cows are high risk thus have to be tested in Canada. And would not be allowed in the human food chain. You are totally missing the point. This has to :stop: - BAN means NOT ALLOWED. What is so hard to understand about that ? Again the issues are animal cruelty and food safety. Why on earth would a producer and a packer even try to get away with crap like this. Obviously these people do not realize the implications of their actions. Nor do they take the threat BSE/BASE seriously. More name calling OT :roll: nothing new there. I am astounded that you seem to think that this is not a huge issue. Again you are trying to make this a canadian /american thing when it is not. It is bad for the whole cattle industry world wide. How many school kids are going to see this thru out the world and be told by animal activists that this is how every cow is treated. Maybe for once in your life look at how this might impact the beef producers of the world. How do you think the footage will help US producers get acess to the asian markets. Do you honestly think that some of your competators for these markets will not use it to their advantage? Dude you need to seriously change your focus.

 

[Anonymous]

OT i am not jumping for joy quite the opposite. Again you are trying to mislead :roll: The same cows are not even allowed in the canadian packing plants. Not to mention the fines that would be levied against the the trucker, owner for trying to do this type of thing..

The same here Questionable-- the stockyards won't even let you unload a crippled cow- or one that looks weak- or anything they think could go down in a truck because the Packers/truckers both don't want to fool with hauling downers away...The Packers won't even let them unload a down cow that eventually gets up-because they don't want the chance of it going down again.....

This is a rogue outfit- not the standard....And from the PM's I got from Canadians apologizing for/commenting about your post/actions- I don't buy your not jumping for joy horse puckey......
Your comments on cattletoday criticising a young Canadian girls news article and Bullards working with Cam and Rkaisers group pretty much shows that all you want to do is continue blaming the Evil American- and not work toward anything positive....I felt it didn't deserve comment- but saw some others did and felt much like I did.....

 

[QUESTION]

OT you just want to keep on changing the subject :roll: So let us go there . As far as me jumping for joy about seeing crap like animal abuse going on. Give me a break. Do you actually think i take pleasure in seeing animals abused. My thoughts are the people doing to abuse need to do some time in a penatentury. I am sure you jump for joy when someonelses stupidity causes more work and higher expenses for you. Get your head out of where ever you have it.
Maybe check my past posts but since you never want to do that i will restate my position DO WHAT EVER NEEDS TO BE DONE TO GET RID OF BSE/BASE. Starting with - Test every animal (UTM/OTM) that is going for human consumption. Have a chain of custody record to follow an animal from birth to death so doing a trace out is easy. Stenghten feedbans and make international standards. If that does not work mass kill for every animal born before 2003 in north america and test every animal in the mass kill. Overkill for sure but drastic times demand drastic measures. You seem conveinently forget my position.
About my comments on BB interview, the first on granted to a canadian new outlet in 3 years. I did not criticize SM's article but questioned what BB is saying.I have a hard time beleiving he is concerned about the canadian cattle producer when he has had the steadfast position he believes the US cattle producer is his prime concern. I have no problem with keeping all the value in the production of beef up here and selling the final product else where. As you KNOW i am involved in producer owned plants up here. Hey if consumers want BSE tested beef let's test every thing but not let foreign countries remove our labels and repackage it. As for COOL it will only be applied to retail meat. Do you realize most comsumer eat out 3 to 4 times a week where COOL isn't required, Too bad you guys like loopholes so much. I belive if allowed to compete on a level playing feild canadian beef will be recognized as some of the best beef produced anywhere in the world. Keep on trying to mislead others as to my beliefs and intentions, if others have a problem with me or my posts they can PM me anytime.Actually i invite them to contact myself. For some reason you constantly want to attack me but i am being proactive what are you doing other than complaining.

 

[Anonymous]

As for COOL it will only be applied to retail meat. Do you realize most comsumer eat out 3 to 4 times a week where COOL isn't required,

You babble like an old woman- so I usually only answer one of your babbles :roll:

In this part of the country once M-COOL goes into effect and folks can distinquish between the origins of their meat- it will be the same as a 100% M-COOL- because only those eating establishments that can show and advertise they are using only Made in USA BEEF will be those that will remain open.....

 

[QUESTION]

Oh i see when i make my position known again it is babble. :roll: Or so you say. As for all restaurants not using 100% US born,bred and raised beef closing that is a good one, i am not laughing with you but at you :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: . I am sure BK, MacD, and wendys are going to switch over just for montana. Get real there are less than 1 million people in montana and over 300 million in the US acchording to the US census bureau. Do you honestly think these companies are going to only use ground beef that is m-cool USA they may add a m-cool burger to the list. But that is where it will end. As for the uspscale restaurants people if there are any in montana they are more concerned about eating quality food not where it comes from unless it is some exotic dish. And i am not talking about a resaurant where you get a knife, fork and spoon :roll: but where you get a full place setting with linens, where they don't have daily specials, salad bars and pie. And you have to make resevations a month ahead of dining at the best of times. You know the type of place that serves authentic KOBI beef. But i am sure you are right everyone will change just to satisfy r-calf just like they have so far. :lol: :lol: :lol: :lol: I just couldn't help myself :cowboy:

 

[Bill]

As for COOL it will only be applied to retail meat. Do you realize most comsumer eat out 3 to 4 times a week where COOL isn't required,

You babble like an old woman- so I usually only answer one of your babbles :roll:

In this part of the country once M-COOL goes into effect and folks can distinquish between the origins of their meat- it will be the same as a 100% M-COOL- because only those eating establishments that can show and advertise they are using only Made in USA BEEF will be those that will remain open.....

Babble like an old WOMAN? Better prop a mirror up by your keyboard.

You can have your local Montana market and we"ll even throw in SD, ND and Wyoming. We will focus on California and states where there is abtually population and far removed from rural roots. You know the folks and their kids driving the Beemers, Jags, Hondas, Toyotas, Mercedes, etc. They seem more concened about quality and value than what country it came from.

Its a damned shame what happened at that plant and again raises the question of what is the US really hiding.

 

[Anonymous]

You can have your local Montana market and we"ll even throw in SD, ND and Wyoming. We will focus on California and states where there is abtually population and far removed from rural roots. You know the folks and their kids driving the Beemers, Jags, Hondas, Toyotas, Mercedes, etc. They seem more concened about quality and value than what country it came from.

Its a damned shame what happened at that plant and again raises the question of what is the US really hiding.

Well, really those areas are the ones I'm most concerned about- as thats where my kids and grandkids live...I want to give them the ability to eat Product of USA Beef- and not have to worry about them eating product from a higher risk country.....And I'm pretty sure most good eating establishments in most those areas will have to provide USA beef if they want to stay open....

One thing to keep in mind tho-- with the recession we are in/going into- money is getting a lot tighter- and the first thing that goes when money gets tight is eating out.....We won't need as much of those cheap unlabeled products....

And I agree with you its a shame whats happening in that plant-and some folks should get strung up--- altho like I said I believe it must be a rogue incident, because all the buyers I've dealt with don't even want anything that looks the slight bit unhealthy or crippled...Truckers won't even take them....

But this incident comes nowhere near the undercover investigation and films that MSNBC did in 'several" of the Mexican slaughter plants- and that meat is still being shipped north and passed off as US with a USDA label...The reason both the US and Canada need M-COOL now.....

 

[flounder]

Hallmark, based in Chino, Calif., supplies Westland Meat Co., a major supplier to a USDA program that distributes beef to needy families, the elderly and to schools through the National School Lunch Program. Westland was named a USDA "supplier of the year" for 2004-2005 and has delivered beef to schools in 36 states.


http://www.katu.com/news/medicalalert/15077511.html


A list was released Thursday afternoon of the schools in Oregon that were told to hold ground beef they received from Westland. Officials are waiting for exact lot numbers to determine which schools might have received tainted meat.



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[Docket No. 03-025IFA] FSIS Prohibition of the Use of Specified Risk Materials for Human Food and Requirement for the Disposition of Non-Ambulatory Disabled Cattle

03-025IFA
03-025IFA-2
Terry S. Singeltary

Page 1 of 17

9/13/2005

http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/03-025IFA/03-025IFA-2.pdf


[Docket No. FSIS-2006-0011] FSIS Harvard Risk Assessment of Bovine
Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE)


http://www.fsis.usda.gov/OPPDE/Comments/2006-0011/2006-0011-1.pdf


APHIS-2006-0041-0006 TSE advisory committee for the meeting December 15,
2006


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Attachment to Singletary comment

January 28, 2007




Greetings APHIS,


I would kindly like to submit the following to ;


BSE; MRR; IMPORTATION OF LIVE BOVINES AND PRODUCTS DERIVED FROM BOVINES
[Docket No. APHIS-2006-0041] RIN 0579-AC01


[Federal Register: January 9, 2007 (Volume 72, Number 5)]
[Proposed Rules]
[Page 1101-1129]
From the Federal Register Online via GPO Access [wais.access.gpo.gov]
[DOCID:fr09ja07-21]


http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064801f8152


BSE; MRR; IMPORTATION OF LIVE BOVINES AND PRODUCTS
DERIVED FROM BOVINES [Docket No. APHIS-2006-0041] RIN 0579-AC01
Date: January 9, 2007 at 9:08 am PST


http://www.regulations.gov/fdmspublic/component/main?main=DocumentDetail&o=09000064801f3412



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Evaluation of the Human Transmission Risk of an Atypical Bovine Spongiform
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J. Virol. doi:10.1128/JVI.02561-07
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Evaluation of the Human Transmission Risk of an Atypical Bovine Spongiform
Encephalopathy Prion Strain

Qingzhong Kong*, Mengjie Zheng, Cristina Casalone, Liuting Qing, Shenghai
Huang, Bikram Chakraborty, Ping Wang, Fusong Chen, Ignazio Cali, Cristiano
Corona, Francesca Martucci, Barbara Iulini, Pierluigi Acutis, Lan Wang,
Jingjing Liang, Meiling Wang, Xinyi Li, Salvatore Monaco, Gianluigi Zanusso,
Wen-Quan Zou, Maria Caramelli, and Pierluigi Gambetti*
Department of Pathology, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH
44106, USA; CEA, Istituto Zooprofilattico Sperimentale, 10154 Torino, Italy;
Department of Neurological and Visual Sciences, University of Verona, 37134
Verona, Italy



* To whom correspondence should be addressed. Email: [email protected].
[email protected].


Abstract


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These results suggest that, in humans, BASE is a more virulent BSE strain
and likely lymphotropic.

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SEE FULL TEXT ;


http://jvi.asm.org/cgi/content/abstract/JVI.02561-07v1?papetoc

http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/01/evaluation-of-human-transmission-risk.html

http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/



Thursday, January 31, 2008

SPONGIFORM ENCEPHALOPATHY ADVISORY COMMITTEE Draft minutes of the 99th
meeting held on 14th December 2007


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ITEM 8 – PUBLIC QUESTION AND ANSWER SESSION


40. The Chair explained that the purpose of the question and answer
session was to give members of the public an opportunity to ask
questions related to the work of SEAC. Mr Terry Singeltary
(Texas, USA) had submitted a question prior to the meeting,
asking: "With the Nor-98 now documented in five different states so
far in the USA in 2007, and with the two atypical BSE H-base


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cases in Texas and Alabama, with both scrapie and chronic
wasting disease (CWD) running rampant in the USA, is there any
concern from SEAC with the rise of sporadic CJD in the USA from
''unknown phenotype'', and what concerns if any, in relations to
blood donations, surgery, optical, and dental treatment, do you
have with these unknown atypical phenotypes in both humans and
animals in the USA? Does it concern SEAC, or is it of no concern
to SEAC? Should it concern USA animal and human health
officials?"


41. A member considered that this question ............


snip... please see full text, sources, and comments here ;


http://seac992007.blogspot.com/2008/01/spongiform-encephalopathy-advisory.html


CJD TEXAS

http://cjdtexas.blogspot.com/


Monitoring the occurrence of emerging forms of Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in
the United States

http://cjdusa.blogspot.com/


Creutzfeldt Jakob Disease

http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/


Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease, Prion Protein Gene Codon 129VV, and a Novel PrPSc
Type in a Young British Woman


http://creutzfeldt-jakob-disease.blogspot.com/2008/01/creutzfeldt-jakob-disease-prion-protein.html


CJD QUESTIONNAIRE

http://cjdquestionnaire.blogspot.com/


ANIMAL HEALTH REPORT 2006 (BSE h-BASE EVENT IN ALABAMA, Scrapie, and CWD)

http://animalhealthreport2006.blogspot.com/


CREUTZFELDT JAKOB DISEASE MAD COW BASE UPDATE USA

http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/


Friday, January 11, 2008

CJD HUMAN TSE REPORT UK, USA, CANADA, and Mexico JANUARY 2008


http://cjdmadcowbaseoct2007.blogspot.com/2008/01/cjd-human-tse-report-uk-usa-canada-and.html


Friday, January 25, 2008
January 2008 Update on Feed Enforcement Activities to Limit the Spread of
BSE

http://madcowspontaneousnot.blogspot.com/2008/01/january-2008-update-on-feed-enforcement.html

http://madcowspontaneousnot.blogspot.com/


BSE BASE MAD COW TESTING TEXAS, USA, AND CANADA

http://madcowtesting.blogspot.com/


NOR-98 ATYPICAL SCRAPIE USA UPDATE AS AT OCT 2007

http://nor-98.blogspot.com/

http://scrapie-usa.blogspot.com/


Terry S. Singeltary Sr.
P.O. Box 42
Bacliff, Texas USA 77518

 

[lazy ace]

Treating animals like that is uncalled for, but if he was really concerned for the wellfare of the animals why did he not report it last fall? Is anyone really sure that he taped this at the packing plant and not a feedlot? Either way there is no excuse for treating cattle like that.

have a cold one

lazy ace

 

[Red Robin]

No evidence of downers ever going on the knocking block either.

 

[QUESTION]

Now trying to blame foreigners. :roll: Is there proof the video isn't from the plant in question ? What about the the truckers and owners delivering these cattle are they going to be held accountable? Sorry but if there are no repercussions for the owners and truckers it will happen again at another plant. It sould be easy just check out the brands, tattoos, shipping manifest, recieving receipts and pay slips that correspond to the video date. Or are these things not required in the US. Someone got paid for the cattle and someone got paid to truck the to the plant follow the paperwork. Or was everything done at night on a cash basis? Still don't need a NAIS?

 

[fedup2]

Question writes"As for COOL it will only be applied to retail meat. Do you realize most comsumer eat out 3 to 4 times a week where COOL isn't required"
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Some of these companies are already doing this on their own. Check out an A&W & you will find ads like this on a big sign on the window & on their web sites.

ORIGINAL BACON CHEESEBURGER
An All American classic, made with 100% U.S. Beef.

 

[lazy ace]

Now trying to blame foreigners. :roll: Is there proof the video isn't from the plant in question ? What about the the truckers and owners delivering these cattle are they going to be held accountable? Sorry but if there are no repercussions for the owners and truckers it will happen again at another plant. It sould be easy just check out the brands, tattoos, shipping manifest, recieving receipts and pay slips that correspond to the video date. Or are these things not required in the US. Someone got paid for the cattle and someone got paid to truck the to the plant follow the paperwork. Or was everything done at night on a cash basis? Still don't need a NAIS?

Not trying to blame anybody else. I'm sure you can track all of that stuff you are suggesting. (I don't get the blame the foreigner) I just find it sad that the video was recorded last fall and it is just now showing up. They obviously knew it was wrong so why did it take that long for them to come forward? An organization that is dedicated to ethical treatment of animals waits that long to produce this video???????

have a cold one

lazy ace