Did you hear about the Calif.cattle shocking and torturing the cows to make them stand up to pass inspection?

Question

This is on the TV news, and should be enough to make many want to become vegetarians.

Answer 1

okay im officially vegetarian

Answer 2

Yes.  Boycott beef!!!  At least until the USDA shuts these guys down.  

Look at their ridiculous response:

http://www.westlandmeat.com/

Mendel is the owner.

Jacket22 - Give us more info on that incident please.  Website or news account would be helpful.

Answer 3

When beef plants have cows that are 'down' cows, it means that there is something wrong with them. The company does have to provide a vet to inspect them so they can know what to do with the cow. With this story in California, no vet was ever provided. That's still no excuse to mistreat cows for being down or just plain tired. I know this because I use to work at a beef plant where I live. There has to be an inspector when cows are being slaughtered in the plant.

Where's the beef??!

Answer 4

Yeah I did hear about that.. It made me cry! it is so horrible in so many ways..

Answer 5

This news episode where they were poking cows, and pushing them along with a forklift, was because the cows were sick and couldn't stand up.  If a cow is that sick, it should not even be considered for inspection!  The inspector was stamping all the meat hanging in the locker............BUT, not once did I see him "inspect" the meat!

Answer 6

one of the s****t things i have seen in a long time,that plant should be closed down for good. they are repeat offenders.the employees should be ashamed of them selves,every single one of them....

that is animal cruelty and they should be arrested.

and to process meat from sick cows, wow what in the heck are they thinking????

years ago there was a special on 20/20 about meat processing plants i wish they would show that again it was also one of the sickest things i have ever seen.

Answer 7

yes I heard about it.  Did you also hear about the one in CA that were putting injured dogs or dead dogs in the meat grinder and sending them off to school lunch programs?  pretty sick world we live in!