this is an isolated incident, you are smoking something. I have done extensive work in the area of agriculture for over twenty five years, and that has included cattle ranches, feedlots and rendering plants.

I have seen the way these things work, and I can tell you I have not eaten beef in over 20 years. Don't even miss it. I won't even bother to go into it, but at every level of these operations the treatment, drugs, hormones, stress that these animals are subjected to is incomprehensible.

So at one location someone got a bit of the entire industry on film.

the local Butcher in the English village where I lived, killed the animals to get the meat he sold.

I remember watching him kill a cow (bullock probably), and some pigs, and saw them butchered on the spot. I also remember him washing out pig intestines to make the skins for sausages (OK, for those of you not brought up in the country, you can go & vomit now).

I knew his meat was fresh, and he was very unlikely to buy a sick cow or pig for slaughter, as he lived in the village, drank beer at the local pub, and could not afford to make his customers ill.

Management (or ownership) remote from customers is an unhealthy trend.

There is an almost billion-dollar hole in the Minnesota state budget and the governor is going to cut a bovine tuberculosis program - i forget what the focus of the program was exactly. But that... and also the financial crimes unit. Tpaw for Veep!
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big government faciitated this mess with idiotic rules favoring large corporations. Was not a USDA inspector at the plant? Of course he was.

Probably hiding in his federally mandated private bathroom. (Which by defintion makes it impossible for a small butcher shop to operate. You know--the one that sells to people he knows and respects...)

Integrity can't be bought by throwing money at people. They have it or they don't.

I did inhale.