Report finds kosher slaughterhouse in the US violated rules
13 March 2006
March 13, 2006
A kosher slaughterhouse in the US state of Iowa has violated animal cruelty laws, according to an internal report by the US Department of Agriculture. Government inspectors also were criticized for sleeping on the job as well as playing video games, making faulty inspections, taking gifts of meat and failing to rectify sanitation issues at the AgriProcessors plant, reports the "New York Times". The plant raised the hackles of animal rights activists in 2004 when a videotape by the radical animal rights group PETA showed workers pulling out animals’ tracheas after their throats had been cut, leaving them staggering around as they tried to bellow in pain. The plant later changed its practices. The Agriculture Department suspended one of its inspectors for two weeks and issued warning letters to two others, a spokesman told the "New York Times", but Iowa state officials did not find prosecutable offenses.
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