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Meat company executive receives probation for illegal sales

By Dan Flynn on February 26, 2018

The USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service reported one criminal action for the last three months of 2017 in a quarterly enforcement report about the first quarter of the government’s 2018 fiscal year.

John Lonczynski,…
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What is a Downer Calf?

By Dr. Richard Raymond on February 21, 2014

What is a downer calf? I will try and answer that question, and, in so doing, hope to better inform the 72 members of Congress who signed a letter to the Secretary of the U.S.
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The Cull Cow Quandry

By Dr. Richard Raymond on April 29, 2013

Some of the most disgusting images of modern agriculture being presented to the American public are those of old cull cows being inhumanely treated and mishandled by workers in the slaughter house pens. The Humane…
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USDA Clears Central Valley Meat to Supply School Food Again

By News Desk on September 10, 2012

The U.S. Department of Agriculture late last week lifted its suspension of Central Valley Meat as a beef supplier for the federal nutrition programs, according to Meatingplace. The moves comes a few weeks after the…
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Food Safety Was Never at Risk at Central Valley Meat

By News Desk on September 1, 2012

Food safety was never at risk at Central Valley Meat, which was shut down for a week for inhumane treatment of animals. But USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS) has concluded that no downer…
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USDA Allows Slaughterhouse Shut Down for Abuse to Resume Operations

By Helena Bottemiller on August 28, 2012

One week after the U.S. Department of Agriculture withdrew inspectors from a California slaughterhouse over alleged animal abuse and inhumane slaughter, the agency gave the plant the green light to resume operations on Monday after…
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USDA Shuts Down CA Beef Plant After Video Shows Inhumane Treatment

By Helena Bottemiller on August 21, 2012

The U.S. Department of Agriculture withdrew inspectors from Central Valley Meat in Hanford, California on Sunday after an undercover video alleged egregious violations of federal humane slaughter laws. The USDA was given footage from Compassion…
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Ban, Testing Helped in Discovery of 4th Mad Cow

By Dan Flynn on April 25, 2012

A six-year span without any bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) cases in the U.S. is over as the prion disease has again been discovered in the nation’s cattle herd.

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Supreme Court Blocks California’s Downer Livestock Law

By Helena Bottemiller on January 24, 2012

In a unanimous decision, the U.S. Supreme Court overturned a California law on Monday that required the euthanization of downer livestock, to promote animal welfare and keep them out of the food supply.

In 2009…

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Bill Seeks Permanent Ban on Downer Slaughter at Meat Plants

By News Desk on January 13, 2012

Congressman Gary Ackerman, D-NY, this week reintroduced a bill to permanently prohibit the slaughter at meat plants of unhealthy livestock that cannot walk because they are diseased, injured or ill, and to require that these…

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