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Know Your Meat

Here is how cattle are treated at Hallmark Meat Packing in Chino, California: 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.Whether you want to be complicit in such cruelty is something to consider next time you're at the grocery store.

Full post as published by Crime & Federalism on February 18, 2008 (boomark / email).