If you can always ask, you can always ask again. And asking again is the tactic the Animal Welfare Institute is taking with USDA’s Food Safety and Inspection Service (FSIS). In May 2023, the Animal Welfare Institute, Compassion in World Farming, the Humane Society of the United States, Humane Society Legislative Fund, Humane Society Veterinary Medical Association, and World Animal Protection filed a petition requesting that FSIS conduct rule-making to require swine slaughter establishments that use carbon dioxide stunning to install video cameras inside their stunning areas.
The petition was assigned to the FSIS Office of Policy and Program Development for review. It was given petition number 23-05. It also gained some endorsements but only silence from FSIS.
So, with the passage of a full year, the Animal Welfare Institute decided to try again to persuade FSIS for a favorable outcome. “Please grant the petition (#23-05) filed by the Animal Welfare Institute and other animal protection organizations more than a year ago on May 16, 2023. It asks FSIS to require pig slaughter plants to install cameras inside the gondolas used to stun or kill more than 100 million pigs with carbon dioxide (CO2) gas each year.
” The May 31, 2024, request from the Animal Welfare Institute continues by making the following points: — This would be an essential yet relatively small step for slaughter plants, particularly those that already use video monitoring equipment in other areas of their.
