date:Jan 18, 2016
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During a six-month period in 2013, the USDA cited Brooksville at least 10 times for serious violations of humane handling and slaughter regulations. Almost all concerned the plants failure to accurately stun animals in order to render them insensible to pain before slaughter.
Aware of Brooksvilles record, the Animal Welfare Institute, which monitors federal and state humane slaughter enforcement, urged the USDA to withdraw federal inspection from the plant.
In November 2013, the USDAs