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Wednesday, February 28, 2001

Slaughterhouse: ridiculously primitive, poorly designed, horrifically unsanitary

"The concept of security and money laundering would be the least of the consumerŐs worries given the un-hygienic conditions in which the cattle and sheep are slaughtered. It is these uncontrolled and un-monitored conditions and practices that create grounds for alarm. Unlike most legitimate slaughterhouses around the world, where the workers wear gloves, hair nets, and uniforms while skinning, slaughtering, and gutting the herds, the Lebanese slaughterhouse has no such standards. The site of bare hands reaching into the insides of cattle is stomach-churning. It is then those same hands that pick up a perfectly clean slaughtered carcass and lay it on the counter to be sold."

Lebanon Daily Star. The Star breaks open a story of incredibly disgusting and unhealthy conditions in a Lebanese government slaughterhouse. "The slaughterhouse is just a large one-room hangar. No divisions, no temperature control, and no separate storage area for the carcasses that are ready to be sold. As wind and rain blow through the hangar, filthy hair and fur lie only a few meters away from the left-over organs put aside for disposal and the meat displayed for sale."'

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