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Vilsack calls for IG investigation of USDA inspectors, Vermont slaughtering abuses

By Lynda Waddington 10/30/09

A slaughtering company was ordered to immediately suspend operations today by the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Vermont Department of Agriculture following the results of an undercover investigation by the Humane Society of the United States that appears to have documented animal abuse that federal inspectors did not correct.

Slaughter expert calls Agriprocessors ’sloppy’

By Lynda Waddington 9/11/08

One of the nation’s leading authorities on humane livestock slaughtering told Iowa Independent in a phone interview today that the problems at Agriprocessors, a kosher meatpacking plant in Postville, could be summed up in one word: “Sloppy.”

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