Re: Re: Re: O.T. Mad Cow

Posted by Dick in Ore. on January 01, 2004 at 22:02:03 from (216.239.184.212):

In Reply to: Re: Re: O.T. Mad Cow posted by Paul in Mich on January 01, 2004 at 13:30:47:

Paul,

Thanks for your response. Maybe I didn't explain myself very well. In reference the story about the slaughterhouse dilema.
If my memory serves me correctly. There was a high percentage of employee turn over at this plant, somewhere over 50%. I guess they just couldn't take the grusome work day after day and some employees were disgusted with the way the operation was being ran. With managment pushing the kill floor crews to work faster, things were happening on the kill floor that, in anybodys book would not be correct, unless of course you were managment.
Apparently an employee contacted someone who they thought would care about the problems. The employees must have thought, what better group to contact but an animal rights group for something like this. Afer all, managment only wanted more production and complaining to them would be like talking to the wall. So apparently when the employees were asked to plant a camera on the kill floor and get some proof, the media was ready to listen, even if was from an animal rights group. The film footage showed it all and it was very evident that what the employees stated was true. As I remember no credit was given to the activist group who set the whole thing up, but with the video being shown on the nightly news, the public was outraged and rightly so. What this did, was bring to light that what was going on in that plant was not only cruel but didn't allow the workers to do a good job. We all know that when you have to work too fast, you can't do a good job. As I mentioned earlier, this happened during the big ECOLI scare. This was when feces from the animal was left on the meat and then infected the meat with ECOLI. This whole thing kind of showed that even under the FSIS watchful eye, production was more important than public health.
I'm not saying I agree with the stand of any animal rights group but when it comes to the health and safety of the consumer, this time they may have been right. And, none of us can say it's right to actually rip the hide off of an animal while it's still alive, even those who work on a kill floor everyday.

Dick

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