Meat Organization Exposed For Unlawful Slaughter And Sale To Colleges Of Downer Cattle

by Lengthy Island Attorney Paul A. Lauto, Esq./www.liattorney.comThe Humane Society of the United States (HSUS) has exposed the Westland Meat Co., one of the nation’s top suppliers of the school lunch system, for the illegal slaughter and sale of sick and downer cattle.  The USDA forbids the sale of sick or downer cattle, due to the fact they exhibit a higher price of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) or mad cow condition.  The HSUS revelation, resulted in the largest BSE connected beef recall in U.S. historical past.  The USDA failed to detect this unlawful exercise notwithstanding obtaining a reported 8 on web site inspectors.

The HSUS brought a False Claim Act (FCA) suit towards Westland Meat Co., reportedly resulting in a treble damages judgment of roughly 500 million.  A settlement agreement diminished the now bankrupt company’s liability to approximately 155 million, of which around 3 million will be paid out of most of the remaining assets of the company’s owners and investors.

The HSUS substantiated the unlawful acts with the under undercover video (also see video at www.liattorney.com/scales-of-justice.html or http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhlhSQ5z4V4), showing slaughterhouse workers beating and dragging ill and downer cattle to the slaughter.  Please be recommended that the below video is graphic in nature and is for mature audiences only.  Once again a governmental agency designed to shield our households and kids, has failed to fulfill its objective.  Thankfully, in this a single situation, we had the HSUS to do the occupation of the USDA.

Prolonged Island Lawyer
Paul A. Lauto, Esq.

www.liattorney.com

Meat Organization Exposed For Unlawful Slaughter And Sale To Colleges Of Downer Cattle