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...master's in art at Columbia University and was living illegally in an artist's studio in Manhattan. Arnold loved to cook but had only a hidden dorm fridge and a hot plate. When he didn't get caught by the landlord, he amped it up, adding a meat slicer and a deli case. "But nothing is like having a commercial deep fryer," he says. "That's a life changer...
...Moreover, the USDA’s decision to include meat dating back to February 2006 in the recall is a recognition that the cruel practices existed for two years under an inspector’s nose. As Paul Shapiro, Senior Director of the Humane Society’s Factory Farming Campaign, told me, “The USDA inspector was there, this cruelty was overt, it was out in the open—why they didn’t catch it or stop it is mind-boggling...
...nation’s meat inspection system is corrupt and incompetent. Inspectors focus on carcasses, not animals—Shapiro notes that inspectors are typically too far down the kill line to either see the live animal, or witness its death. Moreover, collusion with slaughterhouse workers is common—a 2006 New York Times investigation found inspectors accepting gifts from plant managers and playing computer games on the job. The veterinarian at Hallmark/Westland arrived every day at a pre-announced time—and workers only abused the animals outside of these hours...
...century ago, Upton Sinclair was appalled by the stockyards and slaughterhouses of Chicago. His novel, The Jungle, drew the attention of President Theodore Roosevelt, Class of 1880. and led to the passage of the Meat Inspection Act of 1906, mandating federal inspections of slaughterhouses. In 1958, this law formed the basis for the Humane Slaughter Act—a law with popular support so strong that President Dwight Eisenhower remarked, “if I went by mail, I’d think no one was interested in anything but humane slaughter...
...cruelty at Hallmark/Westland was institutionalized, but its causes were economic. The $133 billion American meat processing and packaging industry has expanded rapidly, as the world’s meat consumption has risen fourfold in the last 50 years. The result is slaughterhouses that mandate a kill every three seconds, and an inspection regime that can’t keep up. Shapiro points out that the simplest way for individuals to stop abuses like those at Hallmark/Westland is to eat less meat. An uncomfortable thought perhaps, but less so than re-watching the video...