USDA Orders Largest Meat Recall in U.S. History

USDA Largest Recall

Abuses at Hallmark Slaughterhouses Caught on Tape

Not only is this animal abuse, the claim that the US has never had a case of 'Mad Cow Disease' comes into question. When a USDA vet's only inspection of an animal is seeing them quickly walk past them, they somehow "Pass" before going to slaughter. These videos show the extremes (shocking, waterboarding, rolling with forklifts, dragging) that the slaughterhouses go to to get a downer cow to slaughter. There is too great a chance that these downer cows have the disease, but no one is checking and they're being shoved along just to get their money's worth to market. AND THE MARKET IS SHIPPING TO OUR CHILDREN'S SCHOOLS!


Warning: Graphic Animal Abuse


This last video shows how widespread Westland Meat shipments were to schools across the US, including NC schools (brands include Hallmark, Westland, King and Regal)


Humane Society Videos

Make A Choice To Never Buy Factory Farmed Meat
Stop Buying Poultry raised in Battery Cages
Stop Buying Meat raised in Crates





Update:
Thursday, February 21, 2008
Dumping the school beef

Holly Springs may complain about reassignment, but at least its residents won't be stuck with thousands of pounds of recalled beef.

This morning, the state Department of Agriculture will pick up the 900 cases of recalled beef currently sitting in the Wake school system's Child Nutrition Services warehouse. They'll eventually get the 600 cases sitting at the individual Wake schools.

Today's batch of beef will be carted to an Ag Department warehouse in Butner. Gary Gay, director of the Food Distribution Division for the state Ag Department, said the beef will later be carted off for disposal at a landfill in Person County.

This means the new South Wake Landfill near Holly Springs won't be saddled with the frozen beef patties, spaghetti sauce and hot dog chili.

Smaller districts that have fewer than 50 cases of the recalled beef can dispose of it themselves. They just need to dump bleach on the beef before sticking the cases in a dumpster.



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