Rudy Canoza wrote:
> Cruelty charges filed against slaughterhouse boss
>
> A video taken at the Chino facility prompted schools nationwide to pull
> beef from their menus.
>
> By Victoria Kim, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
> 2:32 PM PST, February 15, 2008
>
> San Bernardino County prosecutors today filed felony charges against a
> former Chino slaughterhouse manager who allegedly used cruel methods to
> force at-risk cattle into the slaughter box. A videotape taken at the
> facility has led to schools nationwide pulling beef from cafeterias.
>
> In what prosecutors called unprecedented charges, 49-year-old Daniel
> Ugarte Navarro of Pomona faces up to eight years and eight months in
> prison if convicted of five felony counts of animal cruelty and three
> misdemeanor counts of illegal movement of a non-ambulatory animal.
> Navarro, who was a head pen manager at Hallmark Meat Packing, was fired
> last month after the release of the video by the Humane Society of the
> United States.
>
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>
>
> These charges have been brought not because animals have rights - they
> do not; they *cannot* - but because right-thinking people care about
> animal welfare, and don't want animals to be abused.

Perhaps breeding animals and processing them for food is abuse.

http://video.hsus.org/index.jsp?fr_s...3b3 0d049b3b7