CALIFORNIA: Calif. meat worker: I was following orders - (Associated Press/USA Today)
March 10, 2008 – 6:08 pmhttp://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/food/2008-03-08-slaughterhouse-abuse_N.htm
ADELANTO, Calif. A former slaughterhouse worker who was videotaped abusing ailing cattle in a case that led to the largest beef recall in U.S. history was cited as saying in this story during a jailhouse interview that he was only following orders.
Luis Sanchez was cited as saying he felt bad when he saw how the cows were treated at Chino-based Westland/Hallmark Meat Co., and insisted his boss taught him to use a forklift to move so-called downer cows along the slaughter line.
“That’s how I was taught. He taught me to do the work. I didn’t know it was a serious crime,” Sanchez was cited as telling the San Bernardino Sun.
Sanchez, an illegal immigrant from Mexico, was being held at the Adelanto Detention Center on immigration charges. He was charged with animal cruelty in the slaughterhouse case, but he also faced charges in two unrelated drug cases.
Sanchez’s ex-boss, Daniel Ugarte […]
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