Former slaughterhouse worker pleads no contest to animal cruelty charges

The Associated Press reports that a former Southern California slaughterhouse worker has pleaded no contest to animal cruelty charges after being caught on undercover video abusing sick and injured cows.

The footage prompted the largest beef recall in U.S. history. Daniel Ugarte Navarro entered the plea Friday in San Bernardino County Superior Court in Chino to two felony counts of animal cruelty and two misdemeanor counts of cruelty to downed animals.

He could get up to a year in jail when he is sentenced on Aug. 25. Another worker, Rafael Sanchez Herrera, pleaded guilty in March to three misdemeanor counts of illegal movement of a non-ambulatory animal and was sentenced to six months in jail.

Comments

[Happy about the sentence]

Good. About time people are made accountable to how animals are treated in a slaughter house. Look I know the animals are there to be killed for food, and I do eat meat, but the human race has to start treating these animals with a little more dignity before they are killed. Circle of life, yadda yadda, I agree, but do we really have to make them suffer their whole lives before putting them down?

[andrea]

This is good: but remember that until the animals are "products" and not "individuals" there will be no chance for them of not suffering.
The only thing we can do is stop eating animals.
And the "circle of life", "natural laws" are nothing more than falsities: humans do not neccessitate to eat meat in the present times, there are many alternatives and supplements. The only reason is that many humans like the taste of meat and they do not care about the sufference of the animals killed to "produce" that meat.