California had the good sense to pass a law in 2009 which required that “downer” or “nonambulatory” livestock, animals too sick to walk on their own, be euthanized rather than put in your local grocery store’s meat department.
Our great state was moved to make this sensible decision after the Humane Society turned over a video. The video showed that sick animals are shocked, then dragged, then killed along with the healthy ones.
Well guess what? The Supreme Court just unanimously ruled to OVERTURN this law, since, in their view, it is up to the federal government to set standards that all states then have to abide by. They are siding with the National Meat Association.
It seems that our government thinks it’s just dandy for consumers to eat weak, sick livestock. But they insist that this is not the case! Because, as they state “The vast majority of nonambulatory pigs are merely overheated, stressed, fatigued, or stubborn, and if allowed to rest, will stand an walk unassisted.”
I’m not making this stuff up! I guess they have swine psychologists on staff that understand these things, while we do not.
Hmmm. Maybe they should improve the overall conditions that these animals are forced to endure, so that the really sick pigs can be distinguised from the fussy ones. They’re just that pissed off about their heinous living conditions and the fact that they are about to die.
And if the next time you eat ribs they’re from a sick pig, well sorry, that just is not really important enough to the powers that be.
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