Grand Island, Neb. – PETA has received a whistleblower complaint alleging that transport trucks arriving at JBS Grand Island slaughterhouse are made to wait as long as six or more hours before unloading, leaving cows trapped in hot metal trailers and causing many of them to collapse. In response, PETA today sent a letter to Grand Island Chief of Police Kevin Denney urging him to assign law enforcement personnel to monitor the trucks for animals showing signs of heat stress and file charges if any violations of Nebraska’s Livestock Animal Welfare Act are found.
PETA previously contacted JBS directly and filed complaints with the U.S. Department of Agriculture after reports from other whistleblowers indicated animals were suffering as long as 10 hours or more on trucks in all weather extremes at this slaughterhouse. Despite these notices, reports continue to indicate that cows are being left to suffer for hours on parked trucks in extreme weather.
“Terrified, miserable cows have reportedly been dropping from extreme heat and cold at JBS for years,” says PETA Senior Vice President Daphna Nachminovitch. “PETA is calling on Grand Island officials to put a stop to this egregious torment and urges everyone to please go vegan to spare cows from suffering in slaughterhouses in the first place.”
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