From Reuters.

At first I thought this headline was a joke or a satire. I imagined a dandelion or a sunflower spitting seeds at cows in a field that were deemed unfit mothers. Feminist cows who decided not to have little cows so they could pursue their careers or something.

And when I got into the article it was still hard to tell what it was, because they were talking about waterboarding cows and making them get up to walk to the slaughterhouse.

I’ve heard about how they treat chickens…so this isn’t coming as much of a surprise…from a PETA-like perspective.

Except for the fact that we’re being TOLD that we’re eating healthy beef…and now it’s coming out that we’re probably eating tainted sick beef from sick cows …which leads me to believe that there’s probably some of that mad cow disease out there and the government is - as usual - lying to us.

Oh wait, this is for elderly people, needy families and school lunches! Well, it’s probably okay then.

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Humane Society said on Wednesday a California slaughterhouse was using a range of torture including waterboarding to prod unfit animals into the slaughterhouse so they could be processed into food that may have ultimately ended up in school lunch programs.

That’s a weird sentence.

The Humane Society displayed a video from its own undercover investigation that it said showed abuse by workers at the Hallmark Meat Packing Co of Chino, California. However, the name of the plant was not visible in the video.

The video showed workers kicking cows, ramming them with forklift blades, applying electric shocks and even using a hose to simulate the feeling of drowning so the animals would revive long enough to pass federal inspection.

What kind of inspection is that? Do they keep the inspectors in a closed office with no windows until the cow stumbles to its feet, or is the ‘inspector’ helping? I can’t figure out how this works.

“The attempt was to make them so distressed and to cause them so much suffering that these animals would get up and walk into the slaughterhouse,” Wayne Pacelle, president of the Humane Society of the United States, told reporters, [sic]

With the way greens feel about animals, it’s just hard to tell what’s going on here.

This is one of the weirdest damned articles I’ve ever read.

He said the plant’s use of injured and sick cows was not an isolated incident in the United States and he called on the USDA to tighten regulations regarding the ban on processing of “downer” cows.

Give us more government! Government is our savior!

SHEESH.

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