In another Texan plant with about 2 dozen violations, Federal officials found nine live cattle dangling from an overhead chain. Secret videos from an Iowa pork plant show hogs squealing and kicking as they are being lowered into boiling water . . . In the United States, CLA is the third main cause of carcass condemnation at slaughter. It is spread through flock movements. There was a major under-reporting of the disease between 1997 and 1998, when the outbreaks doubled.
Vets paid by the hauliers, that's who.
It was from the same farm from which over 100 sheep had perished in the heat on a lorry August 1999 in the Italian port of Bari. They had all been exported on 'further fattening' certificates. It was built with the aid of a New Zealand company. The processing capacity is 10 times greater than the biggest slaughterhouse in New Zealand, and has the ability to slaughter 200,000 sheep in 14 hours, with a total of 400,000 sheep in three days. The slaughterhouse will only operate for 3 days a year when the Haj Muslim festival takes place.