http://www.waitingforthestorm.com/en/taxonomy/term/29/feed The taxonomy view with a depth of 0. en http://www.waitingforthestorm.com/en/slaughterhouse-washington <p>by Joby Warrick Washington Post Staff Writer<br /> (<a href="/files/pdf/wash_post.pdf">click here to view pdf of original article</a>)</p> <p> PASCO, Wash. </p> <p> <img src="/files/gandharva/images/meat-industry/blink.jpg" alt="slaughter house investigation cattle" height="88" width="377" /> </p> <p> It takes 25 minutes to turn a live steer into steak at the modern slaughterhouse where Ramon Moreno works. For 20 years, his post was “second-legger,” a job that entails cutting hocks off carcasses as they whirl past at a rate of 309 an hour. </p> <p> The cattle were supposed to be dead before they got to Moreno. But too often they weren’t. </p> <p><a href="http://www.waitingforthestorm.com/en/slaughterhouse-washington">read more</a></p> http://www.waitingforthestorm.com/en/slaughterhouse-washington#comments Animal Rights animal rights articles articles cruelty Meat Industry veganism vegetarianism Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:59:31 -0700 Gandharva 137 at http://www.waitingforthestorm.com