Target: Tom Vilsack, United States Secretary of Agriculture
Goal: Strengthen animal welfare standards on farms throughout the U.S. and ban custom-exempt slaughter.
An undercover investigation of three USDA certified, custom-exempt slaughterhouses revealed gross violations of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. Workers at the three slaughterhouses—Operation Orlando Poultry, Operation Ali Meats, and Operation A-Poultry—were reportedly observed dragging animals inhumanely, stabbing them to death, slowing sawing off their heads, and skinning animals while still conscious. Investigators with Animal Recovery Mission allege that workers also failed to use any sort of stunning device to render the victims insensitive to pain and, so, they were fully conscious during the butchering process. Among the species found at the locations were goats, dogs and puppies, cows, donkeys, horses, sheep, rabbits, and many others.
Custom-exempt slaughterhouses, like the ones investigated here, are not uncommon throughout the United States. These facilities are exempt from federal inspection by the USDA and, as a result, can essentially do whatever they please with their animals. In addition to allowing inhumane treatment of animals, this laissez-faire way of slaughtering poses food safety risks for humans who consume the meat, especially in a time where bird flu is contaminating tens of thousands of live poultry.
Sign this petition to demand all slaughterhouses are federally inspected and stop allowing animals to be tortured in custom-exempt facilities.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Secretary Vilsack,
Animal Recovery Mission recently conducted an undercover investigation of three of Orlando’s USDA certified, custom-exempt slaughterhouses, and their reported findings are downright atrocious. According to investigators, animals were inhumanely dragged to slaughter, violently stabbed in the neck and chest, had their heads sawed off, and were skinned alive. And, as none of the three locations seemed to possess a stun gun, animals–including goats, sheep, puppies, dogs, horses, cows, rabbits, and others–remained fully conscious throughout the whole process and literally felt their skin being shredded from their bodies.
Sadly, these three slaughterhouses–namely Operation Orlando Poultry, Operation Ali Meats, and Operation A-Poultry–are only a few of the custom-exempt slaughterhouses that exist in the United States. Federal violations to animal welfare laws are already common on USDA regulated farms and slaughterhouses, so one could only imagine the horrors committed with no regulation at all. This lack of interest in the operations of custom-exempt slaughterhouses might also have dangerous implications for public health–especially in the face of bird flu resurgence–as there are no federal food safety inspections.
We are asking you, Mr. Vilsack, to demand that all slaughterhouses are federally inspected and to stop allowing animals to be tortured in custom-exempt slaughterhouses.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Garrett Ziegler
Dear Secretary Vilsack,
Until when is this country – which prides itself on being the most civilized in the world – is going to allow all these atrocities without giving a ‘just punishment’ to the cowardly soulless offenders?
Don’t you think it’s about time to impose a minimum of 10 years in prison and a $10,000 fine for all of them and the permanent closure of all those places of horror?
Thank you!
Agree with you,this is totally unacceptable and beyond belief that this is actually happening in your country. It takes a certain type of sick evil moron to inflict so much pain and torture on innocent animals, and these scum are living in your neighbourhood. The violence and abuse they are inflicting on helpless animals must not go unpunished. Maximum punishment for all animal abusers, name and shame them as they are a threat to all in society
I agree! Give them the m ax. Hold individual and company accountable. Keep individual humble and companies will start regulating employees better if they are fined heavily too. Employees will be humane if they ate imprisoned. And if company is fined, government gets more money.
Simply barbaric!!!
I am appalled at the gross and rampant cruelty these animals are facing at the hands of citizens of this so called civilised Country. This is out of a horror movie only it is actually happening and moreso the authorities are doing nothing about it.. these are cruel and sadistic people… amazing how your countrymen call out the Asian Countries for their cruelty to animals when it is happening on your own doorstep … you Politicians are worse than these sadistic murderers.
MORTE A TODOS ESSES FILHOS DA PUTA👹☠ DE MERDA, AOS CARNÍVOROS👹☠ FILHOS DA PUTA DE MERDA E AOS FILHOS DA PUTA DE MERDA DOS GOVERNANTES👹☠ QUE NÃO ESTÃO NEM AÍ PARA OS ANIMAIS!!!!!!!
A grandeza de uma nação e seu progresso moral podem ser julgados pela forma como Seus Animais são tratados.”
Mahatma Gandhi
“O HOMEM 👹☠ FEZ DA TERRA UM INFERNO PARA OS ANIMAIS.”
Arthur Schopenhauer
Animais = 👼💖 Seres De Luz
Humanos = 👹☠ ??????? LIXO!!!!!!!
ONLY SICK PHYCOPATHS CAN TORTURE ANIMALS AND THAT’S A PROBLEM FOR ALL OF US NOT TO MENTION THE HELPLESS ANIMALS!!!
I am appalled at the gross and rampant cruelty these animals are facing at the hands of citizens of this so called civilised Country. This is out of a horror movie only it is actually happening and moreso the authorities are doing nothing about it.. these are cruel and sadistic people… amazing how your countrymen call out the Asian Countries for their cruelty to animals when it is happening on your own doorstep … you Politicians are worse than these sadistic murderers. Time to act now. You have become a Country of sadistic murderers
it is incredible to think that in the 21st century the Slaughter Houses are still allowed to martyr the poor animals in that way… and that nobody does anything to abolish those terrible ways of slaughtering them…frankly it is incredible to think that there is not a being human who does not sympathize with this barbarism and who does not decide to take action on the matter.
Every day cases of animal cruelty are reported, but we are never informed about how these cases were resolved: fines, years in prison, how they rescued the poor and defenseless animals, if the places of torture were closed, etc., etc.
I wonder why?
SHAME ON YOU SICK BASTARDS!!!
KARMA FIND YOU.
Omg!!!
Wtf!!!
Off with the human heads!!!
If a country is judged by the way it treats animals….we are in SERIOUS TROUBLE!!! STOP THE DAMN BARBARIC PRACTICES!!! WHAT THE HELL IS WRONG WITH SOME PEOPLE???!!!
If I understand the report dogs and puppies are being scanned and killed for meat? When did we become barbarians and why is this even allowed to happen in this country let alone all the other animals that are being cruel he handled tortured beaten skin alive, these places need to be held accountable. Is this what the human race has come down to acting like barbarians caveman butchering animals alive no morals no ethics? This Has to come to a stop. There’s just no other words that I can say to justify these heinous acts of cruelty. People with money they don’t care at all except how much more money they can get, they even sell their souls. Whatever it takes us has to stop.
This is despicable and needs to stop.
SHAME on anyone that can do these despicable acts! May karma rain down on you a thousand fold you poor excuse of a human. May you feel the terror and pain these animals felt until you draw your last breath.
I am shocked and horrified! In addition to the suffering of the animal victims, these places are basically grooming grounds for psychopaths! How many victims do these monsters have outside these barbaric facilities???
Stop this horror.
This disgusting brutal horror must be stopped now. These monsters deserve jail time and huge fines. People who do this to animals are soulless devils.
IT IS THE HUMAN WASTE THAT POPULATES THE WORLD, PEOPLE LACK OF MORAL FEELINGS – ABORTIONS OF NATURE, EXCREMENT OF THE WORLD THAT SHOULD BE ELIMINATED, HUMAN SCUM THAT SHOULD DISAPPEAR, MONSTERS THAT HAVE NO REASON TO CONTINUE INFESTING THE WORLD IN WHICH WE ARE LIVING AND YET NO ONE HAS THE GUTS TO STOP THEM
How Barbican! We must do better!!
CAN’T BELIEVE THAT THESE ATROCITIES ARE HAPPENING HERE IN THIS COUNTRY AND THAT NO ONE YET, NO ONE, NO AUTHORITY HAS YET DONE ANYTHING TO PENALIZE THEM FROM ABUSING THE ANIMALS.
ALL THOSE HUMAN PIECES OF SHIT SHOULD BE BEHIND BARS, MONSTERS LIKE THEM HAVE NO REASON TO CONTINUE INFESTING THE WORLD – CRIMINALS LIKE THEM SHOULD BE BEHIND BARS FOR THE REST OF THEIR MISERABLE LIVES