PETA is calling for independent inspections to make sure Rubashkin is following Humane Slaughter regulations:
The group vowed to appeal to the U.S. Attorney’s Office that declined to prosecute the case, call on the Agriculture Department to fire investigators who failed to enforce kosher standards and intensify calls on the Orthodox Union, which oversees kosher operations at the plant, to allow what PETA calls “legitimate animal welfare experts” into the plant to monitor the process.
“This is the least the O.U. should be doing if it takes its own claims about kosher being humane seriously,” a PETA spokesman, Bruce Friedrich, said in a e-mail.
It's hard to argue with PETA's demand. Of course, I'm sure the OU, KAJ, and Rubashkin will.