AR-News: (CA) Video paints vivid picture of slaughterhouse cruelty

[Animalara2003 at aol.com]

Cow appears conscious as it's hoisted up by leg

Film to be shown at launch of meat inspection review

ROBERT CRIBB
STAFF REPORTER

Pigs limping out of transport trucks on their way to slaughter, cattle 
crammed together for a 67-hour journey across the country and a cow being hoisted by 
its back leg without being properly stunned. 
These images, recorded on video by a Canadian animal rights activist, are 
slated for public showing at the launch of the much-anticipated review into the 
province's meat inspection system tomorrow in Peterborough. 
The Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals is planning to play 
sometimes-dramatic footage of animal sickness and mistreatment for Mr. Justice Roland Haines, 
the judge conducting the review into the safety of the province's meat 
products. 
"You see these injured, sick animals in trucks and slaughterhouses all over 
Canada," says Lesley Moffat, who shot the video footage last summer. 
"Customers shouldn't have to risk eating animals that are sick or injured." 
Ontarians are expected to hear other tales of mismanagement, abuse and 
political bungling from those who come forward to speak at the review. 


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