“The animal was then stunned adequately,” the inspector wrote in a memorandum describing the incident, noting that “the timeframe from observing the apparent egregious action to the final euthanizing stun was approximately 2 to 3 minutes.” Someone brought over another gun to finish the job. But when one of them pulled the trigger on a handheld bolt gun, it misfired. Department of Agriculture, told employees in the stack to stop the moving overhead chain to which the cattle were attached and “reknock” the steer. The only sign he wasn’t exhibiting was “vocalization.” And he was trying to right himself, which the animals commonly do by arching their back. He was showing what is known in the euphemistic language of the American beef industry as “signs of sensibility.” His breathing was “rhythmic.” His eyes were open and moving. The steer was hanging upside down by a steel chain shackled to one of his rear legs. Either way, this wasn’t supposed to happen. In an area of the plant called the stack, a Hereford steer had, after being shot in the forehead with a bolt gun, regained consciousness. O n the morning of May 25, 2019, a food-safety inspector at a Cargill meatpacking plant in Dodge City, Kansas, came across a disturbing sight. This article was published online on June 14, 2021.
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