Comments on: Undercover Video Shows Abuse Of Sick Cows

USDA Begins Investigation To Discover If "Downer Cows" May Have Ended Up In School Lunches

[incog-nito]

Who knows,if you get sick after eating a big, fat juicy steak, it would very well be because it''s from a downer cow.

[jess4678]

rakuda, the kosher slaughterhouses have some similar problems!

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[dwest7274-2009]

I was so sick at the way those cows were being treated. I just wonder how those guys would feel if they was sick and couldn''t get up and someone smacked them around like that or ran into them with a forklift and threw them in bed or made them walk on broken legs. Those guys should all be fired no questions asked, The Supervisors should also be fired because they shouldn''t have let that happen. They was probably one of the people doing it. Lets just pray they all get punished and fired and it stops. I will never eat meat again!!!!!

[Netterz]

I am always amazed at how people react to these things, so SHOCKED. It seems not to matter anymore, because everything is packaged so pretty and perfect in the store, to appear healthy, & as far as what we are supplied via our Gov''t by means of mass industrial slaughterhouses, factories, even the ground our vegetation is grown in, because what we are told is ''safe food'', be it animal or vegetable. Steroids, antibiotics, pesticides, & other poisons, that you or I cant even pronounce because if what man isnt adding to the plants & animal foodlines, the ground & nature is, by what THEY consume from the poisoned ground & air we have made, eventually makes its way into our bodies as well, and makes EVERYTHING SICK, from the ground, to the seed, to the animals, including us humans who eat it. The Native Americans, the animals, the plants, even our own Fore Fathers tried and continue to teach us hundreds of years ago, not to waste, dont take more than you can use or need from the land, be it animal or vegetable. We have stolen it all. Gigantic Cities, factories, all while nodding our heads and agreeing, that bigger is better and how the greedy can make the most $$, that this is some how OUR RIGHT. Con''t

[Netterz]

We steal the land from the plants & animals, kill them off, because they got in OUR way of industrialization, and modernization. Why? to feed our greed. The fact that we all dying of diseases that was never even heard of 100 yrs ago, all while being told we are living longer, healthier lives, on chemicals our bodies dont naturally make or we arent getting from out industrialized diets? People live to be over 100 in non-modern nations ALL THE TIME. Do yourselves and your neighboring farmers a bigger favor. Buy direct. Go to the farmers markets or ''pick your own'' places to buy your fruit & vegetables, and buy local raised meat. Heres a thought....take your kids camping, go fishing, catch your own fish from a river or lake in the country. Farmers are even being forced into the industrial world, to grow fuel here in America. Soon, there will no longer be farmers markets, or road side stands. Mass production is forcing them out of growing to feed us, they are being forced to feed our cars. Animals NEVER suffered the types of disease that they are dying from either. They are being poisoned by OUR LIFE STYLE, not the other way around.

[christiane3]

I cried when I watched this video. How can people be so cruel to one of Gods creatures? It doesn''t matter if they are about to be killed or not. That is all the more reason to make their last few minutes on earth good ones. Remember that they are on the way to be nourishment for many peoples families. For that we should be thankful. As far as I''m concerned karma is a BIT-- and what goes around comes around. Those people doing that are going to get what they have coming to them!!!!!

[jobdiajan]

Good God Almighty!!! Can''t people care!!! These animals should be tended to before they are entered into the slaughter houses, so that at least a healthy animal is so called "processed" How would those people like to be treated they way they are treating those animals when they are sick and expect to have the animal respond. Now, if an animal had attacked one''s person that was hurting the animals, then they would have something else to say -- I swear people are just to shameless and to be called a person -- May God have mercy on their soles and shame on Executive Management for not having proper control of what happens in these matters -- so easy for someone to turn their head, until they get caught -- SICK PEOPLE, makes one want to turn to not eat meat at all -- Eat nothing with eyes!! KUDOS to CBS !!! Go get''em CBS

[rockymtnfay]

Upton Sinclair wrote "The Jungle" in the early 1900''s. This book dealt with the deplorable working conditions and the disgusting inhumane treatment of cattle and human beings at the Chicago stockyard, among other things. "Fast Food Nation" took a look at how the beef industry operates today. One of the biggest changes is the assembly line attitude that does not care about the humane treatment of animals or people for that matter. It''s all about the money. Shocking! I hope CBS will follow up on this. This needs to be cleaned up,not just for us, but for generations to come.

[pnmili]

Thank you CBS for airing this segment on farm animal abuse. I''ve seen a horrible video in the past on pig farm abuse. I was so disgusted that I could no longer eat pork.

It''s a sad truth but Americans need to be aware of what''s behind the scene of the nice/prepackaged meat we see at the grocery store. The only way for the abused to be stopped or any actions to be taken to change the way they treat farm animals is to continue to expose the truth. Consumers should band together and boycott buying their products because that''s the only way that will force change. You have to hit them in the pocket.

[wenatchee11]

I was in tears all night. The evil that was poured out on those poor creatures is unforgiveable- So what will be done? Is CBS going to continue coverage of this story or does it just die and go away like all the others. I hope that place is shut down forever and every person who had anything to do with the suffering of those animals burns in you know where.

[hbevis]

I LIVE ON A FARM AND OWN TWO FARMS. IF I HAD EVER SEEN A WORKER DO SOMETHING LIKE THIS TO AN ANIMAL THAT I OWN, THINK THAT I WOULD HAVE HIT THEM WITH SOMETHING. AT ANY RATE THEY WOULD BE OFF MY CLOCK.

[rakuda-2009]

I for one have eaten meat all my life, but I will never use anything but a Kosher Meat soource ever again. This is hideous! Anyone who argues that it doesn''t matter how they die I pity for their lack of humaneness.

[gce65]

"Open up, Johnny and Janie! Swallow your daily dose of fear and death!"
But come on! The USDA is going to do an investigation? Yea, right--just like the FDA investigates drug companies who put out unsafe drugs all the time until a few hundred people die from them and then they recall the drug and the consumer lawsuits follow.
The USDA and FDA don''t exist to protect the public (like they should). They exist to support the big corporations who do these kinds of things all the time.
This will follow a script:
Investigation to follow.
A few low level employees are fired.
Investigation turns up no corporate wrongdoing.
(Or if so, they pay a token fine and admit no wrongdoing)
And everything''s back to original in a few months.

[cicc333]

what are you going tell the cow lie down and die ...of course had to be killed to eat.how they die dos not matters,since AD..

[incog-nito]

This is one more reason to cook your meat thoroughly, all the way through. You never know what kind of diseases these downer cows carry, you know.

[jimbo554]

You can''t tell me the management of that company didn''t know that was going on. I hope they all get fired.

[gasheriff]

"INHUMANE" just flat "INHUMANE" People like that are scum of the Earth and need to be in a good ole jail cell for a long time. When you can mistreat animals like that, people need to watch you like the no good trash that you are because you do that and the next thing is you mistreating some child or old person. Seeing the action in that video makes you wonder what really goes on and for how long.

[slbecker1]

I was very saddened to see this program. I quit eating pork years ago after realizing they were 5 x''s smarter than our pet dogs and I wouldn''t eat my dogs. I recently gave up consuming beef. I do believe that we are what we eat and I believe in the unseen " energy " that surrounds these poor mistreated animals. I have a difficult time wrapping my mind around a person that could carry out these acts against another living being... Has our species stooped so low as to conduct ourselves in such a dispiteous manner?? If the majority of people would give up consuming meat products and demand decent treatment for these animals only then will things change or would they??? I am doing my part by not purchasing or consuming these meat products. Why don''t you start doing the same???

[jess4678]

And you see Rick Berman and CCF''s people coming HERE to discredit humane groups that expose this criminal abuse and activity.

That''s how this sleazy industry operates.

[valentine112]

The sight of cows being tortured prior to slaughter was the most cruel treatment of animal abuse I''ve ever witnessed.
As consumers of meat, we pick up a ''sterile'' package of meat which is dressed and cut according to our preferences. Their suffering has become a packaged product sealed in celophane... We simply bypass the horror of a slaughter house while we consume our meat products; be it pork, beef or other meat preferences.

We are hypocrits in denial where indifference toward meat is concerned...
The pain and torture can only be by products of a cruel system unwilling to look at slaugter ''head on'' and provide humane safe guards in order to make the business of killing as kind as possible.
It has been said that the way a society treats the vulnerable is indeed a reflection if it''s values as a whole.

One would think that sacrificing it''s life in order to feed the masses would be enough...
The incredible suffering of our animals in order to obtain thier meat is a pathetic amd dark statement about our complete lack of empathy or respect toward life too vulnerable to defend itself.

So much for meat in my diet.