Biggest U.S. Beef Recall May Be Tip Of Animal Abuse Iceberg (Tyson Foods is next?)

[Omaha Steve]

http://www.laborradio.org/node/7942

The largest beef recall in U.S. history could just be the tip of the iceberg concerning the way animals are treated before being processed. Jesse Russell reports:

After videos surfaced of two workers at a Westland/Hallmark Meat Company plant in California inhumanely handling cattle the company voluntarily fired the two workers and recalled 143 million pounds of ground beef – the largest beef recall in United States history. Meanwhile, Tyson Foods is currently facing similar issues after the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals inserted a mole at two of their plants who captured video of chickens being mishandled. After a USDA investigation Tyson has fired a number of workers. The USDA found that there were “issues” and the plants that were not “good commercial practices.” However, because the issues were out of the organizations jurisdiction the charges are being passed on to the appropriate state authorities. Meanwhile, Tyson conducted its own investigation of the videotaped incidents and found that some of the incidents “warranted corrective action” the alleged that PETA “misrepresented” other incidents.

[Double T]

1. The american corporate criminals are capable of EVERYTHING.

Mercury tuna, lead toys, melamine dog food, inhuman treatment of animals, contaminated salad fixings.......WHEN the HELL are the F-king people in charge going to be hung by their GD balls?

[Quantess]

2. People need to be conscious of what they eat.

[Lisa0825]

3. I am not a vegetarian, but like most people I know,

I want the animals bred for food to be treated humanely. I have been trying to do that by researching local ranchers, but it would be great if all corporate producers felt the pressure to treat livestick humanely, so the average consumers' purchases could be humane as well.

[Dhalgren]

4. This isn't about mistreatment of animals -

it is about MAD COW Disease. The news and government just won't say it, but the "downer" cattle that the handlers were "mistreating"? They were cattle suffering from Mad Cow and the meat was sold without caveat until these videos got out. It's Mad Cow and we should all be very concerned...

[David Zephyr]

5. This horror happened in Chino. Right here in Southern California.

It is really big news here. As it should be.

[Omega3]

6. this stuff about downer cows getting into the food supply happens EVERY day in America, it's about

profits, pure and simple, and to all those who want their animals treated humanely, it's not going to happen in todays facory farm environment. This never would have come to light had it not been for the US Humane Soc. undercover operation, and just think, this is 1 of hundreds of slaughterhouses across the US. We've seen this before re: chickens at Tyson, this is par for the course.

I just watched a documentary on Sundance called "our daily bread" by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, here's a not-for-the-sqeemish link preview about the video on you tube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QzSq0AdvAbE

really makes you think about our modern food production.

[flvegan]

7. People should know that chickens (poultry) is NOT covered by the Animal Welfare Act.

THAT is why the Tyson issue is "out of the jurisdiction" of the USDA/APHIS. Chickens are the most abused, least cared about animals in the industry. And there's more coming. There is a LOT of video out there that folks ain't seen yet.

Fuck you, Hallmark and fuck you Tyson, you inhumane shits. Thank you HSUS and PETA for bringing this shitass treatment of animals to the forefront.

Hate PETA all you want. If you eat meat, you support cruelty. That's it, that's all.

Flame away.