Our Government Officials Need To Make Strict Regulations Of The USDA!

I believe our government needs to increase the regulations of the USDA'S (United States Department Of Agriculture) transportation of livestock going to the slaughterhouse, because the ways that livestock are treated in transport and at the slaughterhouse, are very cruel. Most of the livestock are raised for showing for FFA or 4-H projects, and are taken care of for 5-6 months or so then taken to the show by the FFA or 4-H member and shown, and immediately after that they take your animal away and load it onto a big trailer. Most of the livestock are left on the trailer without food or water until they arrive at the slaughterhouse.

If our government officials would force stricter regulations of the USDA animals would be treated better than they are right now. By the time that the livestock arrive at the slaughterhouse, the majority of them are either very ill, can't get up, or already dead. The livestock workers put ropes or chains around their legs so that they can drag the animals off the truck. The animals that arrive at the slaughterhouse that are still able to walk, a lot of them are scared and don't want to get off the trailer, so in result they are shocked repeatedly with electric prods, or dragged off with chains. Once they are unloaded from the trailer they are put through a chute, and shot in the head with a captive-bolt gun to stun them, then they are hung upside down by their back legs before they have their throats cut and their heads, skin, and feet removed by scolding hot water.

The slaughterhouse industry makes more money off of the more animals that it kills, if a worker stops the process to alert officials of abuse at the slaughterhouse they would lose their job. That’s why I believe that it’s the responsibility of our elected governmental officials to help change the treatment of livestock.