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Dear John,
Some U.S. slaughterhouses were recently given permission to operate at higher slaughter-line speeds for pigs and birds and with reduced federal oversight. This means more suffering for animals and greater risks for workers.
Intensified animal cruelty is consistently documented at slaughterhouses with faster line speeds. When line speeds increase and oversight decreases, more animals are stunned improperly. As a result, animals can move through the slaughter line fully conscious and aware, often facing agonizing deaths when they drown in tanks of scalding water or are dismembered alive.
Now, the Food Safety and Inspection Service wants to make these reckless changes permanent. We must act.
Join us in urging Congress to pass the Industrial Agriculture Accountability Act (IAA)—a critical bill that would ban high-speed slaughter and self-regulated slaughterhouse inspections.
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