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...bureaucracy charged with this particular tally). According to its latest estimate, a child born in 2007 costs $204,060 to watch over, feed, cart around, educate and house from birth to the age of 18. This amounts to a tenfold increase in less than 50 years. According to the USDA, child-rearing costs have soared since the department began its annual study in 1960, when raising a kid cost a mere...
...melamine--which caused kidney failure in more than 100 pets--were pulled from shelves. A SHOCKING DISPLAY A Humane Society video of workers at a Chino, Calif., slaughterhouse forcing unhealthy animals to move by prodding them or using forklifts caused an uproar when it spread online. It prompted a USDA investigation, which found that these "downer" cows--ones that are unable to walk--weren't being properly inspected...
...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...
...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...
...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...