Dangerous meats in school lunches?
Filed under: Eating, Whining and Dining
Yesterday, ParentDish received a rather disturbing email from the Humane Society of the United States. They suspected we might be interested in an undercover study they'd recently conducted that resulted in extremely disturbing footage of a slaughter house in California. The footage shows workers at the plant abusing weak cattle with prods, jabbing them in the eyes, shackling and dragging them, and spraying high-pressure water up their noses and into their mouths in an attempt to get the weak animals to their feet.The company featured in the video is the Hallmark Meat Packing Co,, a major supplier of the US National School Lunch program. The Humane Society wants you to know about the abuse that takes place there not only because it's sickening, but it's dangerous. By processing downed cattle, the slaughterhouse is endangering the health of people who end up eating its meat, as the link between downed cattle and mad cow disease has been confirmed.
The Humane society is now demanding tighter regulations on the slaughter of down cattle, but if I were a parent of a meat-eating kid in the school system, I think I'd be doing more than that: writing letters, finding out about "humane" meat processing companies and buying from them, and making changes to ensure my family didn't ever eat meat that came out of such horror. Shudder.
There is video footage available here, but a warning to all those of you who like to eat meat and who have children who do,too: this video is horrifically disturbing. if I weren't already a vegetarian, this video would have converted me.Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments