US: A case of abuse, heightened - (New York Times)
March 8, 2008 – 5:16 pmWe are playing Russian roulette with the American food supply, thundered Wayne Pacelle.
It was a week ago Thursday, writes Nocera in this story, and Mr. Pacelle, the president of the Humane Society of the United States, was testifying before the Senate appropriations subcommittee on agriculture. The hearing was the culmination of an incredible month for the Humane Society. On Jan. 30, the animal rights organization had released a graphic and sickening video of so-called downer cows being horribly abused at a slaughterhouse in Chico, Calif. leaking the video first to The Washington Post, to reap the maximum publicity (of course!), and then posting it on its Web site. The video, showing weak, emaciated cows being manhandled with fork lifts and repeatedly shocked, among other things, had been made by a Humane Society investigator who had infiltrated the plant. He shot the video over a six-week period in October and […]
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