Whistleblower: Local Slaughterhouse Workers Beat Pigs; PETA Wants Investigation
PETA’s legal counsel sent a letter this morning to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS) humane handling PETA’s legal counsel sent a letter this morning to the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service’s (FSIS) humane handling ombudsperson, Dr. Kurt Schulz, questioning why the agency has failed to take any action following a whistleblower’s allegations of abuse and violations of the Humane Methods of Slaughter Act occurring at Smithfield Packaged Meats Corp. in Sioux Falls. The group is pushing for the agency to...