Food and Farm Animal Welfare
FILE - In this Jan. 30, 2008, file photo, a worker throws a piece of meat among cattle carcass scraps dropped into a truck at the Hallmark Meat Packing slaughterhouse in Chino, Calif. In May 2008, the Agriculture Department banned the slaughter of cows too sick or weak to stand, since so-called "downer" cows pose an increased risk for mad cow disease, E. coli and other infections. That change came in the wake of the nation's largest beef recall, after the Humane Society of the United States released another video in early 2008 showing the abuse of downers at Hallmark Meat Co. (AP Photo/Damian Dovarganes, File)
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