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Animal abuse closes Vermont slaughter plant
Animal abuse caught on video tape during another undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has closed Bushway Packing, Inc. of Grand Isle, Vermont.
The action was taken by USDA Secretary Tom Visack and Vermont Agriculture Secretary Roger Allbee based on information provided by HSUS that showed veal calves being kicked, slapped and repeatedly shocked. Animal scientists Dr. Temple Grandin and Kurt Vogel said after viewing the video, “the practices and attention to insensibility at this plant are unacceptable and must improve.”
An investigation of the plant continues.
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Lets try this one more time – they need to hire a responsible person to get rid of the idiots to stop the abuse in turn to stop the undercover work as there would be nothing to film in turn the plants would stay open – but noooo- the plants try to skimp and not have a responsible person watching over the employees and – wow guess what, “it” hits the fan again! this will continue to happen until the plants do this. P.S. I don’t even charge a $500,000 consulting fee to tell them that.
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You hear about animal abuse at slaughter houses and factory farms constantly.
These workers view animals as objects which are at our disposal. One meat
packer at my local supermarket stated “Who cares? They are all going to be
eaten anyway.” This was his response when I asked if any of their products
were local since there are some very large slaughter houses who practice
cost saving techniques like speeding up the line so 400 cattle must be
slaughtered inhumanely just to keep up with the pace. I personally think
that a television should be placed in the meat dept. so customers can see
what they are supporting. Most people are decent and would be appalled to
know the truth. As Linda McCartney once said “If slaughter houses were made of
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I’d like to see video cameras in place at every slaughter plant. Cameras can really help to discourage bad employee behavior. No matter how much they would like to be cruel and take short cuts that cause suffering, they will probably want to keep their jobs more.
I’d really like to see an end to the veal industry all together, but in the mean time…cameras could really help I think.
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They should go in and kick there (*rear end) and feed them to the cows what kind of sick people are they no heart at all,they should go to jail until they die.
Seriously, there’s not enough to eat that we have to torture & beat infant cows to re-shape them into veal.
Think about it.
Please, think about it.