Supreme Court skeptical of California's slaughterhouse rule

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Source: McClatchy

WASHINGTON — Supreme Court justices carved into California's ban on the commercial slaughter of lame livestock Wednesday, leaving the state law's future in doubt.

In a case that pits state vs. federal power, justices repeatedly suggested that California went too far with protecting animals already regulated by federal law and overseen by the U.S. Agriculture Department.


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The California law that's being challenged passed after a graphic Humane Society of the United States video was released in January 2008. The video depicted brutal treatment of livestock at Hallmark Meat Packing Co. and Westland Meat Co. Inc., in Chino, Calif.

The video showed non-ambulatory cattle being kicked, electrocuted, dragged with chains and rammed with forklifts. In some cases, workers motivated cattle by spraying pressurized water into their nostrils.






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1. I grew up on a farm

I've been a part of the slaughter of a lot of animals and I'm constantly stunned at the ability of people to be so outrageously cruel. I have no idea how someone could get their sorry ass to sleep at night after taking part in something like this.

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2. I hear you.

Factory farms need to be banned altogether.

[SoapBox]

3. What happened to all that States RIGHTS stuff?

...the Five Activist Judges, that hate government interference, by being a huge part OF government, want to interfere with a states rights (doing the correct thing mind you).

If they over turn it, take them to see it face up...make them kick, hit and drag the animals.

See how fast their tune changes.

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4. What fresh corruption is this? nt

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5. I'm telling you those

fucking judges are FUCKING SADISTS! They enjoy cruelty.

I hope an animal gets each one of them and bites something off of them...like their dicks. I'm just sick.

I don't eat lambs anymore. I just can't do it.

This SCOTUS is thoroughly corrupted. Johnny Bob Taliban. I-Lie-Too. Scalia...mr. mafia and that turd Thomas....Kennedy should be required to change his name to Raygun or Nixon.

Shit.