Slaughter-Sentenced
Working in a slaughterhouse can get you hard time. Well, if your caught red-handed on undercover video abusing sick and injured cows. Consequently leading up to the largest beef recall in U.S. history. Daniel Ugarte Navarro was sentenced to two felony counts of animal cruelty and two misdemeanor counts of cruelty to downed animals.
The video was shot by the Humane Society and led to a federal investigation and the recall of 143 million pounds of beef in February. It was pretty gruesome. Workers were seen dragging sick cows with metal chains and forklifts, shocking them with electric prods and shooting streams of water in their noses and faces. Navarro claimed he was overcharged by prosecutors and was just following orders. Was he a scapegoat? Discuss.
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I’m one block away from that slaughterhouse. It was a great business that spent millions cleaning up the site mess left by the previous owner. Blood used to run down the street and cows were hauled in to the plant in open trucks. the sounds, sights and smells were awful! When the new owners were finished refurbishing the plant, you would never know from the outside that it was a meat packing plant. Neat clean and odor free. The cattle were brought into the loading bays in 40′ enclosed trailers which backed right inside the loading bays.
This is a place where they kill animals for food, not a kennels! Once again the animal rights terrorists and their media pals have bludgeoned the public with their mantra that “people are bad, animals are good”. A good business that provided secure, but extremely strenuous and often depressing jobs for blue collar working men and women has been driven under by a self-professed “Vegan” who was “shocked on a daily basis” (no kidding…YOU’RE A VEGAN! YOU”RE THE ABNORMAL ONE!) and the once rational Humane Society seeking to increase their power over us and our legislators.
Thow the book at him! I’m not a tree hugger or Pita member. I eat meat daily and have great respect for the meat industry. An Employer who asks an individual to do something immoral as an adult, you have the ability to walk off the job.
What’s the difference if your boss tell you to kill your competitor or you will lose your job? It’s the same thing, We all have our price and we need to be accoutable for our actions.