Sick Cattle Used to Feed School Children
Hidden Camera Investigation Finds Slaughterhouse Used Banned ‘Downed Animals’
BRIAN HARTMAN
ABC News
Editor’s note: Stories of this ilk are included in the blog to inform those in our industry how agriculture is being presented to and perceived by the public.
A hidden camera investigation by an animal rights group has uncovered disturbing treatment of ailing cows at a California slaughterhouse that provides meat for school lunches.
The video, obtained during what the Humane Society of the United States said was a six-week undercover investigation, shows a sickly cow being dragged by a chain before being poked, prodded, rolled and lifted with a forklift. Workers also are seen hosing the faces of cows in a manner that HSUS described as “torture, right out of a waterboarding manual.”
