The Assembly Agriculture Committee this week scuttled SB 200, by Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter. The bill would have required slaughterhouses to install video cameras to track how plants handle livestock. Florez vowed to introduce the bill again next year, but California should not have to wait for this common-sense safeguard.
A camera caught abuse that inspectors missed. The video, and succeeding videos of abuses at other locations, demonstrated that the current inspection system has large gaps. Inspectors cannot be everywhere at once, but cameras can maintain a…
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