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Companies like T.F. Kinnealey, she wrote, are specifically assigned a USDA inspector...
...investigation by the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) found that Westland/Hallmark did not enlist veterinary aid for cows that could not walk...
...USDA requirements and rely on those inspections to ensure the quality, safety, and humane methods of slaughter for our meats,” Martin wrote. “All our beef products, for example, are ‘choice,’” the USDA’s designation for high-quality but relatively un-marbled beef...
...Sunday evening, the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced the recall of 143 million pounds of beef due to fears of infection by E. coli, salmonella, and mad cow disease. It was the biggest meat recall in US history, four times larger than the previous record. More alarmingly, the recall affected over 37 million pounds of hamburgers, tacos, and sandwiches served through America’s school lunch program, with the USDA sheepishly admitting that most of that total had already been consumed by the nation’s youngsters...
...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...