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September 26, 2023
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Middlesex County, N.J. – As of late, PETA despatched a letter to Middlesex County Prosecutor Yolanda Ciccone calling on her to analyze and document suitable prison fees towards the Carteret Abattoir employee liable for beating a lamb with a crowbar on the corporate’s slaughterhouse at 2 Roosevelt Ave.
As printed in a just-released U.S. Division of Agriculture record, a federal inspector witnessed the worker “hitting a lamb at the again with a crowbar” on September 8. The employee lifted the crowbar above his head and struck the animal so onerous that the agent may just listen the have an effect on of the strike.
“Lambs in slaughterhouses revel in such terror and ache when their throats are slit, but for this little lamb, the revel in was once made much more horrific through a slaughterhouse employee who beat her with a crowbar,” says PETA Vice President of Proof Research Daniel Paden. “PETA is asking for a prison investigation on behalf of this lamb and urges everybody to lend a hand save you all slaughterhouse violence through going vegan.”
PETA—whose motto reads, partly, that “animals aren’t ours to consume” and which opposes speciesism, a human-supremacist worldview—issues out that sheep, pigs, cows, chickens, turkeys, and different animals really feel ache and concern and price their lives, simply as people do. The crowd is pursuing fees underneath state regulation as a result of federal officers haven’t prosecuted any inspected slaughterhouses for acts of abuse since no less than 2007.
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PETA’s letter to Ciccone follows.
September 26, 2023
The Honorable Yolanda Ciccone
Middlesex County Prosecutor
Expensive Ms. Ciccone:
I am hoping this letter unearths you neatly. I wish to request that your workplace (and the right kind native law-enforcement company, as you deem suitable) examine and document appropriate prison fees towards the Carteret Abattoir employee liable for beating a lamb with a crowbar on September 8 at its slaughterhouse situated at 2 Roosevelt Ave. in Carteret. The U.S. Division of Agriculture’s Meals Protection and Inspection Provider (FSIS) documented the incident within the hooked up record, which states the next:
[T]he Shopper Protection Inspector (CSI) seen an worker riding lambs to the pens. … [H]e noticed the worker hitting a lamb at the again with a crowbar. The worker raised the crowbar above his head ahead of hanging the animal. When the crowbar struck the animal, the CSI may just listen the have an effect on of the strike.
This behavior seems to violate N.J.S.A. § 4:22-17. Importantly, FSIS’ motion carries no prison or civil consequences and does no longer preempt prison legal responsibility underneath state regulation for slaughterhouse staff who perpetrate acts of cruelty to animals. For the reason that the FSIS has no longer initiated a prison prosecution of a certified slaughterhouse for inhumane dealing with since no less than 2007, fees underneath state regulation are this sufferer’s handiest probability at a measure of justice.
Please tell us if we will be able to do the rest to lend a hand you. Thanks to your attention and for the tough paintings that you simply do.
Sincerely,
Colin Henstock
Investigations Mission Supervisor