Word: slaughtered
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...Industrial Revolution, they had simple expectations and were content to survive as nomadic hunters and shepherds. Nowhere else in the British Empire, says Boyce, "did the British adapt so quickly to the environment." Their dealings with Aborigines swung between cordial and violent, but there was little of the slaughter that was to come...
...Society of the United States, after a six-week long undercover investigation at the Hallmark/Westland slaughterhouse in Chino, California. The video, available on YouTube, shows “downers,” crippled cows too sick to even walk, being shoved by forklifts and dragged by chains towards the slaughter floor. Federal law bans slaughtering downers because of the health risks of eating diseased animals...
...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...
...half a century of federal neglect and localized cruelty have undermined that law’s intent. The USDA now argues that the Humane Slaughter Act does not apply to poultry at all—meaning that 90 percent of the nation’s farm animals, or nine billion birds, are killed every year with no federal oversight. The Humane Society is contesting that interpretation, but in the meantime anything is allowed—as workers at a West Virginia Pilgrim’s Pride Slaughterhouse demonstrated when undercover footage revealed them stomping on live chickens and slamming others...
...Congress must act to stem these abuses. As a first step, it should pass the Downed Animal and Food Safety Protection Act, a bill that would ban the slaughter of any downed animal—including pigs, sheep, and other livestock currently sold diseased into the food supply. Next, it should take on Rep. Chris Shays’ (R-Conn.) Farm Animal Stewardship Purchasing Act, which would ensure basic humane standards on the farm, in transport, and in slaughter...