Results tagged “slaughter”

I don't know if I've gotten even nerdier, or if documentaries have gotten even better, but half the films I've seen or wanted to see this year are non-fictional in nature. Which is why I'm stoked for DocuWeeks 2009, playing through the end of August at the Arclight. Sponsored by the International Documentary Association, the festival features compelling characters & stranger-than-fiction stories in first-look Academy-qualifying runs. Each week is a different program; this week features a look at ecology from the ground up, Up With People, the uphill struggle of Congolese & Nepalese refugees, and the uppest of the up, His Holiness the Dalai Lama.

Milk prices plunged early last month leaving it more affordable for California farmers to send hundreds of dairy cows to a slaughter house. "I don't ever remember being able to produce milk at that price," dairyman Ray Souza told the Associated Press. Farmers were receiving 80-cents a gallon which is less than $1.65, the estimated amount it costs to produce a gallon, according to the California Department of Food and Agriculture. A gallon of Von's store brand milk is selling for $2.99 right now.

In late January a video documenting the mistreatment of cattle at the Hallmark/Westland Meat Packing Co. in Chino was released the Humane Society. The media (LAist included) was sensitive enough to leave this video on the rack but that didn't keep government officials from investigating and announcing the largest beef recall -- nearly 150 million pounds -- in U.S. history this weekend.