A New Mexico man is accused of a despicable act of cruelty that claimed the life of an innocent, nine-week-old kitten. According to the Bloomfield Police Department, Joseph Weaver, a Jicarilla Game and Fish Officer used a pocketknife to decapitate his family's young gray kitten.
Weaver is charged with Extreme Cruelty to Animals, a 4th Degree Felony, and he was booked at the San Juan County Detention Center for the January 10 incident.
Please sign the petition today - Weaver must receive the maximum sentence for this felony charge! A plea deal would only diminish the horror of his actions.
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Published August 17, 2020 by Zachary Toliver. Last Updated August 18, 2020.
As if going to the grocery store during a pandemic weren’t stressful enough, certain food choices may be increasing your risk of catching COVID-19.
Imported chicken from Brazil and packaging of imported shrimp from Ecuador, both contaminated with the novel coronavirus, have found their way into China. As the world scrambles to deal with the danger of this deadly new pathogen, guess which country isn’t testing meat for it?
Even though our country leads the world in coronavirus cases and deaths and there have been report after report of COVID-19 outbreaks in slaughterhouses, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is failing to take the pandemic seriously (yet again) by not testing meat for the virus.
The U.S. imports billions of pounds of meat per year, including from Latin American countries that have reported similar COVID-19 outbreaks in slaughterhouses.
The Physicians Committee for Responsible Medicine (PCRM) filed a lawsuit against the USDA after authorities rejected a petition that requested new requirements to test meat for the novel coronavirus as well as labels to warn shoppers that meat could carry it. The nonprofit organization is asking federal courts to mandate coronavirus testing in slaughterhouses and to make those findings publicly available.
Our country’s lack of testing meat for the virus affects not only Americans but also the entire rest of the planet. The U.S. is one of the world’s top exporters of chicken flesh and body parts.
“The agency didn’t test a thing and it doesn’t seem to care,” Mark Kennedy, attorney for PCRM, told Yahoo Finance. “This is the agency that’s in charge of protecting this part of the food chain and they just said no.
PETA has called for immediate slaughterhouse closures and has led numerous protests over the reopening of facilities that have had high infection rates. Over 40,000 slaughterhouse workers across the nation have contracted COVID-19, and at least 189 of them have died.
While food handling isn’t believed to be the main way COVID-19 is spread, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention stated, “It may be possible that a person can get COVID-19 by touching a surface or object that has the virus on it and then touching their own mouth, nose, or possibly their eyes.”
Eating animals puts the whole world at risk of contracting dangerous viruses.
Deadly outbreaks of mad cow disease, swine flu, and other zoonotic diseases have stemmed from capturing or farming animals. The novel coronavirus may have originated in a live-animal market in China—but when it comes to spawning dangerous pathogens, animal markets and slaughterhouses around the world all pose a danger.
"" MURDER US MURDER"""
IF HE WOULD DO THIS TO A POOR LITTLE INNOCENT CAT JUST WHAT WOULDN’T HE DO ???
AUTHORITIES NEEDS TO DO THEIR JOBS AND PUT THIS MONSTER AWAY!!