FOXSYLVANIA

—Most people don’t really want to see what goes on in slaughterhouses; it’s not pretty, muchless apetizing.  Hamburger is not harvested in the sterile, bloodless styrofoam containers you buy in supermarkets.  Beyond the usual butchery, however, is the treatment of “downer” cows as videotaped by humane society agents in a California slaughterhouse.  These animals, too ill and weak to move, are shown in the videos as being kicked, jabbed in the eyes, and even rammed with forklifts by some workers in an effort to get them to move to their own slaughter!  The inclusion of clearly sick cattle in the meat supply has caused the biggest recall of beef in the nation’s history, and much of it has already been eaten…some in school lunch programs!

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