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Video Sting Shuts Down Cruel Slaughterhouse

Hidden camera catches calves being beaten, skinned alive

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(Newser) – The Humane Society released more video yesterday from its hidden camera sting of Bushway Packing, after the USDA shut down the organic veal slaughterhouse on Friday. The footage, shot this summer, isn’t for the queasy; calves too weak to walk are dragged, kicked and shocked repeatedly, among other abuses. “We found even two calves who appeared to be skinned alive while they were still conscious,” says the Humane Society’s COO.

The video also shows an unidentified USDA inspector coaching workers on how to avoid being shut down by other inspectors. Tom Vilsack yesterday called the inspector’s conduct “inexcusable,” but the USDA wouldn’t say more, or identify the culprit. The coaching wasn’t apparently very good either; the slaughterhouse was closed for a day in May, and again in June and July, when an inspector cited it for inhumane treatment.

A calf is abused in this screenshot from a Humane Society video shot at Bushway Packing.
A calf is abused in this screenshot from a Humane Society video shot at Bushway Packing.
Screenshot from a Humane Society video shot at Bushway Packing.
Screenshot from a Humane Society video shot at Bushway Packing.
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Cat-Lover
Nov 3, 09 2:06 PM CST
FINALLY, GOOD NEWS TODAY!!! Reply
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Nov 3, 09 2:12 PM CST
I was going to say, you kookie libs finally have something to be happy about. The rest of the news is B A D for democrats.
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Nov 3, 09 2:40 PM CST
If only this had been a cat farm, cats suck, nothing agianst you cat lover but i had two cats living with me every morning i wished them dead!
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Nov 3, 09 2:13 PM CST
I HATE CATS Reply
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Nov 3, 09 2:24 PM CST
If we weren't treating calves this way, it will be the cows doing this to our kids.
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