Please prosecute IBP Company to the full extent of the law.

It has come to the attention of the Global Animal Rights Internet Community that the IBP slaughterhouse is responsible for extreme Animal cruelty. While we certainly disapprove of slaughterhouses and the consumption of other living species, most activists realize that meat is an accepted and popular food source and is not going away anytime in the near future. Unfortunately for our cause and for the animals themselves, most meat consumers give little or no thought to how an animal becomes a meat product. Since we are assuming that, at the moment, slaughterhouses are necessary, we seek to lessen the doomed animals' suffering by insisting that existing anti-cruelty laws be enforced. Atrocities are happening to thousands of cattle every week in slaughterhouses in Washington State and throughout the US, according to numerous sworn affidavits from meat industry workers. Hidden camera videotape obtained by the Humane Farming Association (HFA) shows, among other atrocities, live cows dangling upside down from a moving conveyor, animals being trampled, and a conscious cow having an electric prod held in her mouth.
It's not just cows that suffer in slaughterhouses. Pigs are subjected to similar abuses. Some who survive stunning are dragged through tanks of scalding water, kicking and squealing until they drown. With animals whizzing by at the rate of one every few seconds, workers report that they cannot ensure that each animal is rendered unconscious. But workers say they'll be fired if they stop the production line. One Washington slaughterhouse worker says "Cows can get ten minutes down the line and still be alive. All the hide is stripped out down to the neck there." According to another, "Workers open the hide on the legs, the stomach, the neck, they cut off the feet while the cow is breathing. It makes noise. It's looking around." Still another says, "Their eyes look like they are popping out. I feel bad that I have to do my job on them." (please refer to : http://www.hfa.org )

IF IBP COMPANY IS NOT PROSECUTED AND PENALIZED, the cruelty will continue. WE WILL HAVE NO CHOICE but to 1. advise all of our friends and family to stop traveling to Washington State; 2. advise all of the friends and family to stop buying any of the commercial products and services made from Washington State; 3. advise our government not to buy your commercial products especially your "Meat and Dairy" products due to the cruelty.
PLEASE PROSECUTE THE IBP COMPANY TO THE FULL EXTENT OF THE LAW AND ENFORCE THE HUMANE SLAUGHTER ACT!!!
Thank you for your time and consideration.

Sincerely,

Please write to:
[email protected] (Attorney General Christine Gregoire) and
[email protected] (Governor Gary Locke) and express your views on this outrage! Thank you.