But, Our Meat Supply is Safe!

...or so I've been told by people who should know better...

the Cosmic Iguana:

January 30, 2008

SICK COWS FED TO SCHOOL KIDS, AND TORTURED TO BOOT

Yet another example of atrocities you couldn't make up during the age of Bush. RAW STORY:

The Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has released footage taken by an undercover investigator which reveals horrifying abuse of cows at a California slaughterhouse which reportedly supplies meat to American school lunch programs.

Cows too sick or lame to walk are shown being shocked, prodded, shoved with forklifts, and even blasted with hoses in what the head of the HSUS describes as "torture ... right out of the waterboarding manual." Such "downer" animals normally would not be led to slaughter out of fear of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (i.e., "mad cow" disease) entering the food supply.... [*]

Two years ago, as posted here, BushCo eliminated most Mad Cow testing [*]. The obvious reason was fear of finding any, since they also forbid ranchers to test their own [*].

So the net result will probably be a Mad Cow epidemic here in about another ten years. But, hey, since it's gonna happen anyway why not squeeze out a little extra profit by feeding it to school kids? After all, they're probably juvenile delinquents anyway.