Shocking Findings Over Some Organic Meats

January 13, 2010

DailyMail.co.uk

By Danny Penman

The Vale of Ashburton has long been regarded as an idyllic corner of rural Devon. Groups of ramblers clamber over muddy stiles, while farmers round up their cattle ready for the afternoon’s milking.

The view from the slopes of nearby Rippon Tor is perfect – so perfect in fact, that local artists do a thriving trade in watercolours of the vale.

The serenity is only enhanced by the sound of sheep calling to each other across the hillsides as they chew on the lush grass.

But every now and again, if you listen carefully, you can hear other animal sounds, ones that shatter this bucolic vision. The sounds are of terrified animals as they are herded into an abattoir in the valley below before being systematically killed.

The owner of the slaughterhouse in question is a man named Tom Lang, and he is proud of the fact his establishment is certified by the Soil Association for the ‘humane slaughter’ of organically reared animals.

But thanks to a Mail investigation, that certificate was suspended last month, after staff at the abattoir were filmed inflicting appalling cruelty on pigs and sheep.

We obtained video footage that shows workers routinely flouting both the Soil Association’s organic rules and The Welfare of Animals (Slaughter and Killing) Regulations 1995. We discovered pigs and sheep being beaten and, even more horrifyingly, animals having their throats slit without being adequately stunned first.

Animal Aid, a national welfare group, planted secret cameras inside the slaughterhouse and shot 40 hours of footage over a two-week period.

This particular slaughterhouse was chosen not because it was one of the worst in Britain, but because it was assumed to be one of the best – certified with the gold standard of the organic industry that sets so much store by the way animals are raised and killed.

The camera footage shows trailer-loads of cattle, sheep and pigs arriving throughout the day at Tom Lang’s abattoir near Ashburton.

Scores of animals are crammed into these trucks, and on their arrival they are chased out of the vans by men wielding sticks. To strike the animals causes them undue stress and is against the regulations for organically reared animals.

Once inside the abattoir, our pictures show pigs being beaten as they’re herded around the complex. We also found several cases of animals having their throats slit without adequate stunning, again against regulations.

In one scene, a group of terrified pigs are herded into a ‘knocking pen’ where they are kicked and beaten by a slaughterman before being stunned with electric tongs.

One pig tries to escape, running hither and thither, frantically trying to climb the walls of the pen.

One shaven-headed man stands out for his brutality. He kicks, punches, knees and bashes a pig with steel stunning tongs no fewer than 20 times. The creature can be heard screaming as the blows rain down upon it.

At one stage, a slaughterman appears bored of stunning the animals with the electric tongs and reaches for a bolt gun instead. This is a different method of stunning the animals.

He shoots a sheep in the head. The animal falls on to its side and struggles to get up – its legs frantically pawing at the air.

Welfare rules state that an animal should be killed or ’stuck’ – by having its throat slit – within 15 seconds of being stunned.

If there is any delay before the animal is ’stuck’ it will start regaining consciousness. On countless occasions, these rules were flouted. One sheep was stunned and left hanging upside down for at least 50 seconds.

The creature was left dangling by a hind leg, and can be seen gradually starting to move again. First, its front legs start twitching, then the animal becomes increasingly frantic before the slaughterman stabs it in the neck.

Jason Aldiss, President of the Veterinary Public Health Association, says: ‘Every animal should be stuck within 15 seconds. After this time, there’s a great risk that an animal will start to regain consciousness.’

In fact, one of the sheep there was left for more than 50 seconds.

Stephen Wotton, a vet from Bristol University specialising in the welfare of animals at slaughter, says such scenes are wholly unacceptable.

‘After 50 seconds the animal is very likely to have regained consciousness.’

Sure enough, on the video from Tom Lang’s abattoir, on many occasions sheep can be seen pawing at the air after they are ’stuck’, suggesting they are conscious as they bleed out (the technical term for slitting the throat).

Mr Wotton says: ‘If an animal starts to regain consciousness, then you should immediately re-stun it. It’s an important part of the slaughtering procedure and should be standard practice in any slaughterhouse.’

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Diseased African Monkeys Used to Make Swine Flu Vaccines; Private Military Contractor Holds Key Patents

August 5, 2009

Natural News

by:  Mike Adams

To most people, vaccines sound medically harmless. “They’re good for you!” say the doctors and drug companies, but they never really talk about what’s in those vaccines. There’s a good reason for that: If people knew what was really in those vaccines, they would never allow themselves to be injected with them.

Aside from the dangerous ingredients many people already know about (like squalene or thimerosal), one of the key ingredients used in flu vaccines (including the vaccines being prepared for the swine flu pandemic) is the diseased flesh of African Green Monkeys. This is revealed in U.S. patent No. 5911998 – Method of producing a virus vaccine from an African green monkey kidney cell line.

As this patent readily explains, ingredients used in the vaccine are derived from the kidneys of African Green Monkeys who are first infected with the virus, then allowed to fester the disease, and then are killed so that their diseased organs can be used make vaccine ingredients. This is done in a cruel, inhumane “flesh factory” environment where the monkeys are subjected to a process that includes “incubating said inoculated cell line to permit proliferation of said virus.” Then: “harvesting the virus resulting from step (c); and… (ii) preparing a vaccine from the harvested virus.”

Aside from the outrageous cruelty taking place with all this (“incubating” the virus in the kidneys of living monkeys, for example), there’s another disturbing fact that has surfaced in all this: The patent for this process is held not just by the National Institutes of Health, but by another private corporation known as DynCorp.

This, of course, brings up the obvious question: Who is Dyncorp? And why do they hold a patent on live attenuated vaccine production using African Green Monkeys?

DynCorp, it turns out, is a one of the top private military contractors working for the U.S. government. In addition to allegedly trafficking in under-age sex slaves in Bosnia and poisoning rural farmers in Ecuador with its aerial spraying of Colombian coca crops , Dyncorp just happens to be paid big dollars by the U.S. government to patrol the U.S. / Mexico border, near where the H1N1 first swine flu virus was originally detected.

DynCorp also happens to be in a position to receive tremendous financial rewards from its patents covering attenuated live viral vaccine harvesting methods, as described in four key patents jointly held by DynCorp and the National Institutes of Health:

(6025182) Method for producing a virus from an African green monkey kidney cell line

(6117667) Method for producing an adapted virus population from an African green monkey kidney cell line

(5911998) Method of producing a virus vaccine from an African green monkey kidney cell line

(5646033) African green monkey kidney cell lines useful for maintaining viruses and for preparation of viral vaccines

One of the key inventors in these patents now held by DynCorp was Dr. Robert H. Purcell. Who is Dr. Robert Purcell? He’s one of the co-chiefs of the Laboratory of Infectious Diseases of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases operating under the National Institutes of Health of the U.S. government.

That office, located at 50 South Drive, Bethesda, MD 20892, is less than 15 miles away from the headquarters of DynCorp.

It’s not too many more miles to Washington D.C., where U.S. government health authorities awarded over $1 billion in swine flu vaccine contracts to pharmaceutical companies. Can you guess which company received one of the largest vaccine manufacturing contracts? Baxter Pharmaceuticals, the very same company using ingredients derived from African Green Monkeys in precisely the way described in the patents held jointly by DynCorp and the NIH. Remember, Baxter is the company that was caught inserting live viruses into vaccine materials distributed to 18 different countries.

Are you following all this?

So far, we have the U.S. government awarding swine flu vaccine manufacturing contracts to a major U.S. vaccine manufacturer (Baxter) that uses vaccine ingredients from African Green Monkeys (sick!), derived from a process covered in a patent invented by U.S. government NIH researchers (Dr. Purcell and others) and now held jointly by the NIH and a private military contractor named DynCorp — the very same company that’s paid to monitor the U.S. / Mexico border where H1N1 swine flu first appeared.

And just today, there’s yet another development in all this: A Tamiflu-resistant strain of swine flu has just been discovered. Care to guess where? On the U.S.-Mexico border.

Once you understand all this, some obvious questions come to mind: Could H1N1 swine flu have been intentionally created and released into the wild (in Mexico) in order to create a windfall of vaccine profits that would financially benefit both the drug companies and the vaccine production patent holders? Because it certainly appears that a grand conspiracy between the NIH, the vaccine makers and private military contractors could have pulled this off.

But wait: Would a private military contractor really resort to such tactics just to make money?

Decide for yourself. Dyncorp has already been accused of crimes against humanity and genocide .

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