Sentences with phrase «slaughter plants»

Horse slaughter plants do not want the old, skinny and lame horses, but are looking for the fat and healthy animals for a higher quality of meat.

Horse slaughter plants are notorious polluters.

Through social networking, Ellen discovered horse slaughter plants in Mexico and Canada and set out to dedicate her life to speaking for these gentle creatures.

In order for horse slaughter to be considered humane, slaughter plants and government regulators must provide evidence that the facilities and methods used are appropriate for horses, causing at most, a minimal amount of momentary pain or stress, as measured by legitimate monitoring of welfare indicators such as vocalizations, instances of slipping or falling and stun efficacy.

On Friday we learned that the U.S. Department of Agriculture approved an application for horse slaughter inspections at a plant in Roswell, New Mexico, and grant inspections at horse slaughter plants in Missouri and Iowa this Monday, July 1.

On Nov. 1, a federal court issued a ruling that clears the way for horse slaughter plants to open in the U.S..

If their budget is large enough to support placing inspectors in horse slaughter plants, possibly they have more money than they need.

Slaughter is NOT humane euthanasia and you do not want USDA inspectors put into horse slaughter plants.

Over 530,000 cattle are shipped to slaughter plants each week, making the transport of cattle a vitally important part of the beef and dairy industries.

Their heads will be drawn through an electrified water bath to stun them unconscious (some slaughter plants now use a gas immersion killing system) before an automatic knife cuts their throat.

Lengthy transport: Rembrandt does not kill «spent» hens on site but rather trucks them to a Minnesota slaughter plant.

New Jersey calf slaughter plant shut down California's foie gras ban upheld Dangerous amendment stripped from federal Farm Bill

So far, this hasn't been an issue because the USDA had not yet approved China's slaughtering plants for this purpose.

(Reuters)- New Mexico's attorney general sued on Thursday to block a horse slaughter plant scheduled to open next month from becoming the first facility of its kind to operate in the United States in more than five years.

That committee is expected to pass the bill to allow a horse slaughter plant to operate in our state as they have already voted to pass SB 375, a senate bill which would repeal Oklahoma's ban on horse meat consumption.

If a slaughter plant opens, horses will be trucked into our state.

«Then again last October, undercover investigators of the Humane Society caught employees at the Bushway Packing slaughter plant in Vermont on tape committing extreme abuse of veal calves.

Click here for more on the Court's decision upholding a Texas law banning horse slaughter for human consumption and here for information about the fight in the legislature and the courts in Illinois to shut down the horse slaughter plant in DeKalb.   Â

After two public meetings in which residents loudly expressed their opposition, Unified Equine and Chevideco announced they would withdraw plans to put a horse slaughter plant in Mountain Grove, Mo., and look for another location in southwest Missouri.

The Dallas Crown horse slaughter plant in Kaufman, Texas was ordered closed by the town's Board of Adjustments in March of 2006, but managed to tie the process up with appeals until it was closed under an unrelated state law in 2007.

Bacon said a community would be better off with a «lead smeltering plant or a sexually oriented business than a horse slaughter plant».

That proposal was overwhelmingly defeated, and a local attorney has accused UE of possible fraud in solicitations to investors in the proposed horse slaughter plant.

Not exact matches

Between 2006 and 2008, Maple Leaf closed a hog processing plant in Saskatoon, sold one in Burlington, Ont., and consolidated all slaughtering and packing operations into one mega-plant in Brandon, Man.

GFI seeks out entrepreneurs and scientists to join or form start - ups in the plant - based and cultured1 meat (i.e. meat grown in a culture without animal slaughter) market sectors.

GFI seeks out entrepreneurs and scientists to join or form startups in the plant - based and cultured1 meat (i.e., meat grown in a culture without animal slaughter) market sectors.

When demand increased, he hired a local plant to slaughter hogs for him, which he sold to top health food stores and to the top hotels in Dallas, Houston and Austin, Texas.

The plant is not equipped for slaughtering animals as this is done at the other Utah plants.

JUST's mission statement of providing plant based meats and eggs to prevent the slaughter of farm animals and its inherent large scale ecological damage also implies a future of genetically engineered meat products created in laboratores.

This means our plant does not slaughter chickens in the manner required to be halal certified and we do not pay any money to a halal endorsing body for the halal certification mark.

GFI seeks out entrepreneurs and scientists to join or form startups in the plant - based and cultured1 meat (i.e., meat grown in a culture without animal slaughter) market sectors.

This scenario is even more troubling from a food safety perspective: In addition to potential hygiene violations in Chinese slaughtering and processing plants, chickens raised on China's polluted soil, air and water could well be adversely affected by that nation's severe environmental degradation.

At the Butterball plant, workers slaughter, pluck, parcook, and package 30,000 turkeys each workday, filling the air with the distinctive tang of boiling bird.

Grandin's battles in the slaughter industry have nearly all been waged with higher management, not with workers or floor managers, simply because they're office bound, their thinking determined more by the paper that surrounds them than by living animals and working plants.

Congress effectively banned horse slaughter in 2006 by saying the USDA could not spend any money to inspect the plants.

Although the birds are checked for visible fecal matter, large processing plants can slaughter more than a million birds per week, 30,000 chickens per hour, or 140 birds per minute, which provides minimal time for inspectors to visually inspect every bird.

The food, somehow, makes it into the food waste processing plant, gets turned into cow feed, is digested by a cow that is then slaughtered and ends up on the very same researcher's plate three days later while he's on a blind date.

Milott and Murnion open in a small chicken processing plant where a worker, angry that the bird he chooses to slaughter is fighting him, wrings the creature's neck.

They planted seeds, collected the materials to make paper and ink, and to address the protein, raised day - old chicks for eventual slaughter.

An Internet video that shows a meat company employee swearing at animal activists before shooting a horse in the head underscores the increasing emotional intensity of the national debate over whether a southeastern New Mexico plant should be allowed to resume domestic horse slaughter.

They also look after slaughtering and processing plants.

An Internet video that shows a meat company employee swearing at animal activists before shooting a horse in the head highlights the increasing emotional intensity of the national debate over whether a New Mexico plant should be allowed to resume domestic horse slaughter.

But the horse slaughter industry is not merely a betrayal of our horses and a blight on our collective conscience; it is often devastating to horse owners, to the communities where the plants are located and a serious health risk to the very people who consume the meat.

Carbon dioxide is used as a refrigerant, in fire extinguishers, for inflating life rafts and life jackets, blasting coal, foaming rubber and plastics, promoting the growth of plants in greenhouses, immobilizing animals before slaughter, and in carbonated beverages.

Beginning in 1994, a local NGO called Bio-tech pioneered the development of their «integrated waste recycling plant,» where large amounts of organic waste generated by the markets, slaughter houses, and restaurant kitchens are treated and converted into methane (cooking gas) and fertilizer.

As discussed in this prior post, the Humane Society of the United States and a variety of other groups and individuals brought suit to permanently enjoin the slaughter of horses at two plants that had been granted Food Safety Inspection Service permits.