Federal regulators who shut down a Hanford slaughterhouse after receiving an animal-welfare video were investigating on Tuesday whether beef from sick cows had reached the human food supply.
Labor has called for an independent office for animal welfare after video footage emerged of animals being bludgeoned to death with sledgehammers in Vietnamese abattoirs.
"I wanted to increase the work requirement," said Romney in January 2012, recalling his efforts at reforming Massachusetts' welfare program (see video above).
Welfare payments, DIY Jackass videos, unhygienic Asian restaurants, illegal parties, drugs, not paying rent.
Abattoirs undergo regular inspections, including from the occasional undercover reporter from a vigilante animal welfare group, armed with a video camera.
For a glimpse of that world, watch recent video of animal welfare campaigners, during a recent heat wave, providing water to truckloads of pigs bound for a Toronto slaughterhouse.
But they find it difficult to reconcile this idea that they love animals, yet if we're going to live the way we live [eating meat], they're [animals] going to need to be killed and we're going to need to manage wildlife populations [to be free of pests and diseases from animals]." Animal welfare group Peta called the video "deranged".
Conservatives bloggers became outraged by this portrayal of the welfare system as the music video made its way around the internet.
Animal welfare groups have clandestinely recorded videos showing poor conditions on farms, and various states have sought to set more humane standards for hens.
Serco's $10 billion portfolio includes many other businesses, from air traffic control and visa processing in the United States, to nuclear weapons maintenance, video surveillance and welfare-to-work programs in Britain, where it also operates several prisons and two "immigration removal centers".
In recent weeks, two videos released by animal welfare groups have spurred US public interest in chicken welfare.
