Stop Skinning Animals Alive

Target: Tom Vilsack, United States Secretary of Agriculture

Goal: Demand the USDA strengthen animal welfare standards on farms throughout the U.S. and ban custom-exempt slaughter.

An undercover investigation of three USDA certified, custom-exempt slaughterhouses revealed gross violations of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act. Workers at the three slaughterhouses—Operation Orlando Poultry, Operation Ali Meats, and Operation A-Poultry—were reportedly observed dragging animals inhumanely, stabbing them to death, slowing sawing off their heads, and skinning animals while still conscious. Investigators with Animal Recovery Mission allege that workers also failed to use any sort of stunning device to render the victims insensitive to pain and, so, they were fully conscious during the butchering process. Among the species found at the locations were goats, dogs and puppies, cows, donkeys, horses, sheep, rabbits, and many others.

Custom-exempt slaughterhouses, like the ones investigated here, are not uncommon throughout the United States. These facilities are exempt from federal inspection by the USDA and, as a result, can essentially do whatever they please with their animals. In addition to allowing inhumane treatment of animals, this laissez-faire way of slaughtering poses food safety risks for humans who consume the meat, especially in a time where bird flu is contaminating tens of thousands of live poultry.

Sign this petition to demand all slaughterhouses are federally inspected and stop allowing animals to be tortured in custom-exempt facilities.

PETITION LETTER:

Dear Secretary Vilsack,

Animal Recovery Mission recently conducted an undercover investigation of three of Orlando’s USDA certified, custom-exempt slaughterhouses, and their reported findings are downright atrocious. According to investigators, animals were inhumanely dragged to slaughter, violently stabbed in the neck and chest, had their heads sawed off, and were skinned alive. And, as none of the three locations seemed to possess a stun gun, animals–including goats, sheep, puppies, dogs, horses, cows, rabbits, and others–remained fully conscious throughout the whole process and literally felt their skin being shredded from their bodies.

Sadly, these three slaughterhouses–namely Operation Orlando Poultry, Operation Ali Meats, and Operation A-Poultry–are only a few of the custom-exempt slaughterhouses that exist in the United States. Federal violations to animal welfare laws are already common on USDA regulated farms and slaughterhouses, so one could only imagine the horrors committed with no regulation at all. This lack of interest in the operations of custom-exempt slaughterhouses might also have dangerous implications for public health–especially in the face of bird flu resurgence–as there are no federal food safety inspections.

We are asking you, Mr. Vilsack, to demand that all slaughterhouses are federally inspected and to stop allowing animals to be tortured in custom-exempt slaughterhouses.

Sincerely,

[Your Name Here]

Photo Credit: Garrett Ziegler


68 Comments

  1. Julia Edinger says:

    THIS PURE EVIL TREATMENT TO POOR HELPLESS INNOCENT ANIMALS,,,, MUST STOP!!! KARMA TO ALL THOSE EVIL BEING’S must be severely punished!!!ASAP!!!

  2. People like that need to be shot and given a one way lotto ticket to a 6 by 2 plot of land. But that applies to all animal “agriculture” as well. These are not much better.

  3. Shirley Lemieux says:

    It really does not make any sense that custom exempt slaughterhouses exist. By having no Federal Inspections for these facilities just opens up the door for cruel and vicious torture to these animals. The torture will continue as long as these custom exempt slaughterhouses exist.

  4. Rose-Marie Storm Grobbelaar says:

    The USA are no better than any other 3rd world country. They treat their animals the same, are just as savage and brutal and are without compassion. The horrific treatment of all animals in the USA is well known and it is terrible shame.

    • Thank I keep telling the that the USA I’d no better but some people tell me to mind my own business I’m a US citizen and I have a right to say dont I

  5. This is disgusting and needs to be stopped. No animal should suffer like this.

  6. Manitou Calmstorm says:

    This is unacceptable in the highest means! What comes around, goes around. What you bastards do to these animals, let the same happen to you.

    And, why are they slaughtering dogs and cats? They are not good animals, they are pets, to be loved and cherished.

    For every animal you abuse, you prove to God how utterly evil you are. He will get you.

  7. And Trump shouldn’t even be allowed on the united States cause he’s not an American cause he was born in Canada his sick ass mother and father had his birth certificate change to to the USA when they walk across the border in New York

  8. Charleen Murphy says:

    This is so bad, terrible, I don’t know how they could do that, horrendous, evil.
    Hope they close it down soon! There must be something very wrong with these people

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