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Flaxbee

(13,661 posts)
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 05:12 PM Nov 2015

Petition if you are interested: Stop the Unhealthy and Inhumane High-Speed Slaughter of Pigs

https://www.change.org/p/tom-vilsack-alfred-v-almanza-james-snee-jeff-ettinger-stop-the-unhealthy-and-inhumane-high-speed-slaughter-of-pigs?mc_cid=a9216a51df&mc_eid=ce50f74e9a

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is working to expand a flawed pilot program that allows select slaughterhouses to dramatically speed up their slaughter lines, while simultaneously pulling back on government oversight. I recently worked undercover at one of these pilot facilities, and captured on video the shocking ways this program fails to protect animal welfare--and American food safety.

Please join me in telling USDA and Hormel it’s time to stop this high-speed, reduced-inspection pilot program, known as HIMP. By shifting key inspection responsibilities to the slaughterhouses themselves, this program is allowing animal abuse and food safety problems to increasingly go unchecked. Consumers deserve more, not less, oversight in food production.
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Petition if you are interested: Stop the Unhealthy and Inhumane High-Speed Slaughter of Pigs (Original Post) Flaxbee Nov 2015 OP
I already boycott pork and pork products because of the living conditions in factory farms Warpy Nov 2015 #1
Signing the petition is the very least we can do. Enthusiast Nov 2015 #2
Seems like we're going the exact WRONG direction on this. stillwaiting Nov 2015 #3

Warpy

(113,093 posts)
1. I already boycott pork and pork products because of the living conditions in factory farms
Wed Nov 11, 2015, 06:14 PM
Nov 2015

Pigs are intelligent and sensitive creatures and left to their own devices, clean enough that they won't sleep in their own mess.

This is not going to do anything to end my one person boycott.

Enthusiast

(50,983 posts)
2. Signing the petition is the very least we can do.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 08:18 AM
Nov 2015

The nation and consumers need far more corporate oversight, not less.

Urge your representatives to vote against the TPP and TTIP so we won't lose even the inadequate oversight as it exists today.

stillwaiting

(3,795 posts)
3. Seems like we're going the exact WRONG direction on this.
Thu Nov 12, 2015, 09:29 AM
Nov 2015

This trend to allow businesses to supervise and regulate themselves is fucking outrageous. Neoliberal bullshit.

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