CRIMES WITHOUT CONSEQUENCES - gpvec

Stagno’s Meat Co (Modesto, Calif.) a
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1. Plant was issued an NR on January 3, 2003 for unloading a nonambualtory cow by
pulling on a chain secured to one of the animal’s legs.
2. Inspection was suspended at the plant on March 6, 2003 for excessive use of force in
driving, as described below:
At approximately 1120 hrs…I happened to see the unloading of calf operation in calf pen.
I saw the truck driver was pulling the live calves from the trailer, slamming the calves on
the ground, then supporting the calves to get up by excessive use of hot shot (some of the
calves were falling down again in circles) then walking them towards the brim of the calf
pen and kicking them to fly over and land in the pen.
3. Inspection was suspended at the plant on September 18, 2003 for pushing a
nonambulatory cow with a forklift.
4. Plant was issued an NOIE on May 17, 2007 and a suspension on May 24, 2007 for
food safety and humane slaughter violations. On September 12, 2007, the FSIS filed a
complaint to withdraw inspection service based on the company’s failure to remove,
segregate, and dispose of Specified Risk Materials (SRMs) and “failure to implement
food safety system controls to ensure production of wholesome unadulterated meat
products.”
The Meat Shop (benson, Vt.)
1. Inspection was suspended at the plant on August 15, 2005 for failure to provide water
to animals in holding pens.
The Pork Company (Warsaw, N.C.)
1. Plant was issued an NR on November 2, 2002 for failure to provide water to 57 hogs
held in the receiving barn overnight. Similar violations had been recorded at the plant on
January 31, 2002 and February 11, 2002.
2. Plant was issued an NR on April 10, 2003 for repeated violation of failure to provide
animals in holding areas with access to water.
3. Plant was issued an NR on May 3, 2005 for an “egregious humane handling
noncompliance.” Inspection was suspended at the plant on May 9, 2006 for another
serious incident of inhumane handling, described below:
Food Inspector observed a plant employee hook the head (a hand held meat hook was
drove into the meat above the eye) of a fully conscious hog that had escaped the stunning
system and entered the evisceration department. The employee then pulled the hog out
from under the head table (the animal was drug across the floor) and then carried the
hog back into the kill area.
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