The calf broke out of the Saba Live Poultry store and ran behind the store across the street. When employees of the butchery finally did wrestle the calf the ground they cut HIS throat.
CHRIS EHRMANN: ‘The slaughter in a Home Depot parking lot of a calf that escaped a butcher shop and led employees on a chase has sparked outrage by animal lovers and elicited racist messages online. The calf broke out of the Saba Live Poultry store in Bloomfield, Connecticut, on July 13 and ran behind the store across the street. A contractor who was doing construction work on the butcher shop even tried to shoot the animal with a bow and arrow, to no avail.
Dashboard camera footage from a Bloomfield Police officer who briefly followed the animal by car shows the animal eluding several people who tried to corral it. When employees of the butchery finally did wrestle the calf the ground, Badr Musaed, who works in the shop, cut HIS throat…
Animal activists are decrying the public slaughter. That the butcher shop was halal — which means it slaughters animals using knives in accordance with Islamic dietary laws — has led to a stream of racist comments posted on webpages associated with the store. Police have cited Musaed for public disturbance, and the state Department of Agriculture briefly shut it down…
Capt. Stephen Hajdasz, a public information officer with the police department, said police are considering an animal cruelty charge for Musaed and a disorderly conduct charge for the contractor who tried to stop the animal with an arrow.
The state Department of Agriculture investigated the shop after all of the attention and sent a cease-and-desist order, citing conditions at the facility that would result “in imminent and substantial harm to health of the animals.” The order has since been lifted after the shop agreed to comply with regulations regarding the treatment of livestock…
But animal rights activists said this slaughter provides an insight into the cruel treatment of animals that are used for food. About 40 people held a vigil Sunday on the spot where the animal was killed and then crossed the street to hold a protest outside the shop, said Brandy Petrone, one of the organizers of the events.
Amber Canavan, a spokeswoman for People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, said that anyone who is horrified with what happened to this animal would be equally horrified at what happens at dairy farms or slaughterhouses around the country. The group is looking to put up a billboard near where the animal was killed, saying, “I’m me, not meat. See the individual. Go Vegan”.’ SOURCE…
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