Enjoy your lunch, readers -- those of you that eat beef, anyway.
:-(
"SoCal slaughterhouse at center of recall"
"by Greg Risling, Associated Press Writer | February 18, 2008
LOS ANGELES -- The U.S. Department of Agriculture on Sunday ordered the recall of 143 million pounds of beef from a California slaughterhouse, the subject of an animal-abuse investigation that provided meat to school lunch programs.
How come the link is different than the paper?
And AmeriKa LUVS its KIDS, huh?
Just enough to give 'em BAD BURGER and POISON 'em, right?
Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer said his department has evidence that Westland did not routinely contact its veterinarian when cattle became non-ambulatory after passing inspection, violating health regulations....
Sounds like MAD-COW!!
Industry just IGNORES, right?
The company provided meat to various federal programs.... Officials estimate that about 37 million pounds of the recalled beef went to school programs, but they believe most of the meat probably has already been eaten.
Excuse me (as author runs to toilet)!!!!!!!
Federal officials suspended operations at Westland/Hallmark after an undercover video from the Humane Society of the United States surfaced showing crippled and sick animals being shoved with forklifts....
The video showed workers kicking, shocking and otherwise abusing "downer" animals that were apparently too sick or injured to walk into the slaughterhouse. Some animals had water forced down their throats, San Bernardino County prosecutor Michael Ramos said....
Federal regulations call for keeping downed cattle out of the food supply because they may pose a higher risk of contamination from E. coli, salmonella or mad cow disease since they typically wallow in feces and their immune systems are often weak.
Take another bite of that SHIT-BURGER, kiddo!
Taste good?
About 150 school districts around the nation have stopped using ground beef from Hallmark Meat Packing Co., which is associated with Westland."
AmeriKa:
Where OUR CHILDREN are FED SHIT -- LITERALLY!!!!!!!!!
