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.


http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/C_... schools.shtml

The Humane Society of the United States released
a videotape today on Jan 30, 2008 suggesting that
poor families, elderly people and school children
participating in the school luncheon program
sponsored by the U.S. government may have eaten
sick and abused cow meat and may be at high risk
of mad cow disease.

In the video, cows that are too sick to pass the
United States Department of Agriculture inspection
are subject to a range of tortures to stimulate
them to walk through the inspection.

The downers are not supposed to be processed into
any meat intended for human consumption.

"Sqwertz" > wrote in message
...
> On Wed, 30 Jan 2008 19:55:18 -0800, Mark Thorson wrote:
>
>> 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
>
> Maybe they were suffering from severe depression.
>
> -sw
>
>
You and the cows need a course of Prozac!

"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.

Mark Thorson wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> http://foodconsumer.org/7777/8888/C_... schools.shtml
>
> The Humane Society of the United States released
> a videotape today on Jan 30, 2008 suggesting that
> poor families, elderly people and school children
> participating in the school luncheon program
> sponsored by the U.S. government may have eaten
> sick and abused cow meat and may be at high risk
> of mad cow disease.
>
> In the video, cows that are too sick to pass the
> United States Department of Agriculture inspection
> are subject to a range of tortures to stimulate
> them to walk through the inspection.
>
> The downers are not supposed to be processed into
> any meat intended for human consumption.

But how else can we maintain those "everyday low prices" at the big box
mart?

George > wrote in
:

> even a veterinary version
>> of waterboarding in which high-intensity water sprays
>> are shot up animals' noses

I must try that to see if it'll get my teenage kid outa bed in the morning.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

On Jan 31, 10:41*am, hahabogus > wrote:
> George > wrote m:
>
> > even a veterinary version
> >> of waterboarding in which high-intensity water sprays
> >> are shot up animals' noses
>
> I must try that to see if it'll get my teenage kid outa bed in the morning..
>
> --
>
> The house of the burning beet-Alan
>
> It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
> Elbonian Folklore

An electric cattle prod can be your friend. LOL.

N.

Nancy2 > wrote in news:a928a807-844d-4d04-9ef0-
:

> An electric cattle prod can be your friend. LOL.
>
> N.
>

I tried it and it only make 1 eye open.

--

The house of the burning beet-Alan

It'll be a sunny day in August, when the Moon will shine that night-
Elbonian Folklore

hahabogus wrote:
>
> Nancy2 > wrote in news:a928a807-844d-4d04-9ef0-
> :
>
> > An electric cattle prod can be your friend. LOL.
>
> I tried it and it only make 1 eye open.

Squirt pepper spray into the open eye.

"hahabogus" > wrote in message
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> Nancy2 > wrote in news:a928a807-844d-4d04-9ef0-
> :
>
>> An electric cattle prod can be your friend. LOL.
>>
>> N.
>>
>
> I tried it and it only make 1 eye open.
>

A Tazer could help, possibly.
Dee Dee