Comment from jean public

this is an industry cost and it is time that you stop gouging american general taxpayers to pay all the costs of industry. you lie when you say you protect animals - that is the last thing you do. you allow a system where these animals are raised in the most abusive, brutal, violence filled situations. look at the videos on line and they are all part of this comment. these farm animals deserve respect and decent conditions. instead they are beaten, drowned in antibiotics, and live in the most squalid conditions going. this agency must be filled with human slime to allow this greed filled industry to continue like this. dairy calves are taken from their mothers immediately upon birth which is horrific for their health and fed crap poison instead of their mothers milk. diseases come from the brutal violent filled conditions these animals are kept under. <iframe width="560" height="349" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/gYTkM1OHFQg" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe> The lives of chickens raised for meat and eggs end with a grueling trip to the slaughterhouse. Before the terrifying journey, chickens are caught by workers and placed into crates. One reporter at a Delmarva chicken farm described the “catching” process as “a half-dozen men … grabbing [chickens] by their feet, shoving them into the drawers of 6-foot-high crates. The men can catch more than 6,000 birds in an hour.”(18) One industry study of catching practices concluded that “[t]he number of freshly broken bones found in live birds prior to slaughter and the number of old healed breaks found at slaughter are unacceptably high.”(19) Once at the slaughterhouse, the birds are dumped from their crates and hung upside down in shackles, further injuring their legs, which are already tender and often broken. Their throats are cut open by machines, and they are immersed in scalding-hot water for feather removal. They are often conscious throughout the entire process. Because hens’ bones are so brittl