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...Having initially criticized the Humane Society’s undercover investigation, the USDA was left scrambling. On Feb. 5 it closed the Hallmark/Westland plant, and last weekend it issued the recall. But in the same breath the USDA downplayed the event’s broader significance, calling this “an isolated incident of egregious violations,” and noting that USDA inspectors stand guard in America’s 6,200 slaughterhouses...
...USDA inspectors were also present at Hallmark/Westland, and the cruelty occurred on their watch. The Hallmark/Westland plant had already been cited on several occasions in 2005 for humane handling violations—the same year that the Westland Meat Company was awarded the “Supplier of the Year Award” for the national school lunch program...
...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...
...enough, Cunningham says, calling it little more than a "paper trail." He says, "that's not adequate. The only way you can be sure is if you put the DNA of these clones into an independent database," pointing out that a single cow can enter a packing plant and come out the other side in as many as 1,000 different products...
Boston, which scored a 22.7 on Popular Science’s 30-point scale, was commended for its proposed plan to build a plant that will turn leaves and grass into electricity...