the FAST super 45 'IT's LIKE LOVE', see page 7 for a video review
IAN NORTH formed NEO in '78 after MILK and COOKIES broke up in the mid 70's, see page 5 for a small review and a writeup sent in by MARTIN GORDON !
On May 24, 2000, King5.com new service in Seattle, WA, broke a story about undercover footage taken at a nearby IBP slaughterhouse. According to their report, “The video shows fallen cows being trampled and dragged, others are tortured with electric prods. One cow has fallen and workers stick an electric prod on its head, then place the prod down its mouth. Still other cows are hung on chains, fully conscious, blinking and kicking. The worker who shot the tape said one cow was already at a station where legs are removed. ‘It would be horrible if someone were to cut off your leg without anesthesia.’”(7)
According to Steve Cockerham, a USDA inspector at Nebraska slaughterhouses, and former USDA veterinarian Lester Friedlander, some U.S. slaughterhouses routinely skin live cattle, immerse squealing pigs in scalding water, and abuse still-conscious animals in other ways to keep production lines moving quickly. The men stated that the federal law requiring slaughterhouses to kill animals humanely has been increasingly ignored as meat plants grow bigger. Cockerham said that he often saw plant workers cut the feet, ears, and udders off cattle that were conscious on the production line after stun guns failed to work properly. "They were still blinking and moving. It's a sickening thing to see," he said.(8)
Investigator Gail Eisnitz writes about widespread violations of the Humane Slaughter Act in her 1997 book Slaughterhouse.(9) One of many such stories: “It was a plant where squealing hogs were left straddling the restrainer and dangling live by one leg when workers left the stick pit for their half-hour lunch breaks; where stunners were shocking hogs three and four times…where thousands of squealing hogs were immersed in the plant’s scalding tank alive.”
In Slaughterhouse, an anonymous veteran USDA meat inspector from Texas describes what he has seen: “Cattle dragged and choked…Knocking ‘em four, five, ten times. Every now and then when they’re stunned they come back to life, and they’re up there agonizing. They’re supposed to be restunned but sometimes they aren’t and they’ll go through the skinning process alive. I’ve worked in four large [slaughterhouses] and a bunch of small ones. They’re all the same. If people were to see this, they’d probably feel really bad about it. But in a packing house everybody gets so used to it that it doesn’t mean anything.”
Dave Carney, 1997 Chairman, National Joint Council of Food Inspection Locals, states, “These large slaughtering operations are primarily concerned with productivity and profit. They don’t care about the effects on the animals. It’s as if they’re not even killing animals. They’re “disassembling” them, processing raw materials in a manufacturing operation.”(9)
Birds Common birds slaughtering methods:
No stunning -- Farm Sanctuary has videotaped fully-conscious chickens having their throats cut and being stuffed into canisters to bleed. Some chickens escape and walk around while bleeding to death.(10)
Electrical stunning -- Although the slaughter of birds is exempt from federal law, electric stunning is normally used to induce paralysis for ease of handling. There is considerable debate as to whether stunning renders the birds unconscious, or merely paralyzed.(11) The shock may be an "intensely painful experience".(12) (Visit United Poultry Concerns for more information on electrical stunning of birds).
Each year, large numbers of chickens, turkeys, ducks, and geese reach the scalding tank alive and are either scalded to death or drowned.(13) (14)
Animals are God's creatures, not human property, nor utilities, nor resources, nor commodities, but precious beings in God's sight. Rev. Andrew Linzey Oxford University, Animal Theology, 1995
NASTY POP a rare pop lp from '75, does anyone know how this sounds ?
