Posted: Sun Feb 03, 2008 10:48 am By Sandy

Slaughterhouse Scandal

If the video and HSUS reports are true, this indeed is even worse than scandalous. We, as citizens and taxpayers, put our trust in the USDA to do what they were meant to do --they have failed, and not just in this case. However, I have to wonder what HSUS's agenda is --why did they hold this for four months? Four months is a long time to allow this cruelty and suffering to go on. I cannot help but think that stopping the torture would have been a primary concern ---unless, of course, there was a different agenda
Sandy


http://www.consumerfreedom.com/news_det ... dline/3549
The animal-rights Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) came out with its first-ever grisly “undercover” slaughterhouse video this week, and it’s scandalous all around. Scandalous that employees of the plant (now fired) were behaving so unforgivably. Scandalous that appropriate government oversight was apparently lacking. And equally scandalous that HSUS waited around four months to share its footage with anyone.

Four months? U.S. Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer made the point on Wednesday in a press release:

It is unfortunate that the Humane Society of the United States did not present this information to us when these alleged violations occurred in the fall of 2007. Had we known at the time the alleged violations occurred, we would have initiated our investigation sooner, and taken appropriate actions at that time.

An organization truly interested in protecting the welfare of farm animals would have held a press conference a day or two after its undercover mole witnessed such atrocities.....................................