Help a Meat Inspector Punished for Reporting Inhumane Conditions!

[Omaha Steve]

https://www.change.org/petitions/help-a-meat-inspector-punished-for-reporting-inhumane-conditions?utm_source=action_alert&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=30503&alert_


My husband Jim Schrier and I both worked as USDA meat inspectors at a Tyson Foods slaughter plant near our home in Columbus Junction, Iowa. Now Jim, who has been dutifully serving as a USDA meat inspector for 29 years, is being forced to work over 100 miles away from his family simply for doing his job and enforcing humane slaughtering laws.



Under the federal law, pigs are required to be completely unconscious and unable to feel pain prior to shackling. At the Tyson Foods slaughter plant, Jim witnessed that pigs being shackled for slaughter were kicking and thrashing violently, a direct violation of federal regulations. He also witnessed that many pigs were having to be stunned after being shackled, indicating that the animals had not been stunned properly beforehand.

Jim couldn’t remain silent and allow pigs to suffer needlessly. He raised these concerns immediately to his supervisors. But they don’t share his conviction or support him when he tries to enforce the law. In fact, it’s just the opposite.

After Jim blew the whistle on wrongdoing the agency sent him to work at another facility 120 miles away as a means of whistleblower retaliation. Now the USDA has unfairly decided to reassign him permanently to a facility in another state. To keep his job, he will have to leave his family, friends, and home.

Other USDA inspectors at the Tyson plant had concerns over humane handling, too. But for now, Jim was the only one who has come forward to speak out. Others fear retaliation and keep quiet so they don't face the same dire consequences that Jim has endured. But nobody should be punished for being honest on the job.

Please join me in asking the USDA to stop penalizing Jim for speaking the truth and to bring my husband back home to Columbus Junction!

Petition and more at link.

[newfie11]

1. Anyone that can mistreat an animal

Is pond scum. Yes I will sign it.

[pinboy3niner]

2. Jim Schrier is represented by the Government Accountability Project in his whistleblower case

More at link, including links to news reports on the case:
http://www.foodwhistleblower.org/the-lifecycle-of-food/life-on-the-farm/inhumane-handling/jim-schrier

K&R

[matthews]

3. 89,938 signers so far I believe (counting myself). nt

[veness]

4. Signed. K & R! n/t

[think]

5. 93,689 supporters when I signed.

[OffWithTheirHeads]

6. done!

[HiPointDem]

7. kr

[sulphurdunn]

8. The message is being broadcast

loud and clear: Whistleblowers will be punished. I know personally of three people who blew the whistle on supervisors who had falsified scientific data. The whistleblowers have been retaliated against and the supervisors have been promoted. It happens in government everyday.

[savannah43]

11. It also happens in the corporate world, too.

The world needs a concerted effort to grow food organically. We are assisting the murder of Earth. Stop now.

[Catherina]

9. Signed. I wish I could go out there. FIRE those supervisors. 102,116 signatures n/t

[savannah43]

10. Boycott all Tyson foods.

Even better, boycott all meat products. Do this until Tyson and all other corporations obey the laws as written--not the laws that they feel like obeying. The USDA is virtually useless, as is the FDA. Why are we paying taxes for them if they work only for corporations? They all need to know who butters their bread.

[DirkGently]

12. Jesus. Signed. n/t

[Omaha Steve]

13. Kick

[Heidi]

14. Kick!