"Mark Thorson" > wrote in message
...
> Quoting from:
> http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...903054_pf.html
>
> Video footage being released today shows workers
> at a California slaughterhouse delivering repeated
> electric shocks to cows too sick or weak to stand
> on their own; drivers using forklifts to roll the
> "downer" cows on the ground in efforts to get them to
> stand up for inspection; and even a veterinary version
> of waterboarding in which high-intensity water sprays
> are shot up animals' noses -- all violations of state
> and federal laws designed to prevent animal cruelty
> and to keep unhealthy animals, such as those with
> mad cow disease, out of the food supply.


Employees who excel at this end up working for Blackwater.