Thursday, May 28, 2009

Would you know if you were served CAT?







Ever wonder what yo may be eating when out at a restaurant?
I am sure this is not an isolated case.
Most restaurants I am sure are great, but how many are just like this.

Would you know if your chicken dinner was really cat and who's cat?
Of course when you listen to the inspector in the video, the restaurant is a "Good" restaurant that had a "Bad" day. The skinned cat of course... we don't know nothing about that!

YEAH... Right! Like the Peanut Company that had poisoned people with salmonella and after looking at the companies manufacturing facilities they were in atrocious conditions and inspectors as usual asleep at the wheel for years. If you trust what your meat, food or restaurant inspections say... GOOD LUCK! If you ever read "The Jungle" and think that things have changed... no they haven't! Especially in the meat industry and restaurants come in 2nd!

Just more reason I am glad to be a vegetarian who used very little processed foods!





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DORAVILLE, Ga. -- A local restaurant with a loyal following and rave reviews is under the microscope.

Doraville Police took pictures a few months ago of a skinned cat and raw meat stacked in the back of Ming's BBQ on Buford Highway.

The pictures, taken on January 23, forced Ming's to make big changes.

They showed grease traps overflowing, pigs stacked in buckets, boxes of raw meat sitting outside and pieces of raw meat hanging from a fence.

"One of the employees was taking, we don't know what kind of meat it was, but he was tossing it over a fence, and we did get pictures of that," said Officer Rosemary Martin.

There's also a picture of what police and the city solicitor describe as a dead skinned cat.

That obviously was the most disturbing thing we saw," said Lee Perkins, Doraville City Solicitor. "The cat appeared to be, it was the head and tail and skin of the cat. As the pictures show, it was right in back of the restaurant."

Police immediately called out DeKalb county health inspectors.

"There was a picture taken by police of a dead skinned cat. Did you inspectors see that?" 11Alive's Jennifer Leslie asked Ryan Cira, DeKalb County Environmental Health Manager.

"No we did not see what you're referring to," Cira said. "We were told Doraville code inspectors were handling that."

But county inspectors did take action.

They shut down Ming's for a short time that day over concerns about the temperature of the meat that was left outside.

"Did you consider closing it for good?" Leslie asked.

"That is a last resort," Cira said. "We do not begin any inspection with that in mind."

Instead, inspectors returned six times over the next two weeks.

On january 28, Ming's scored a failing 59.

But by february 10, the score jumped to 96.

"That's pretty dramatic. How did they do that?" Leslie asked.

"They took good directions and good instructions from us," Cira said. "They've been in business for 15 years, and I believe the average score over the years has been a B."

One the owners of Ming's, Jack Cheng, declined our request for an interview, but he did agree to talk off-camera.

He insisted the meat in the police photos wasn't outside for very long and was in the process of being moved to refrigerators.

Since then, he said Ming's has stopped ordering so much food, changed food suppliers and put food safety managers on duty at all hours.

As for the skinned cat, Cheng said he didn't know anything about it and was offended that police tried to connect it to the restaurant.

"I had a concern that people would be eating at that restaurant," Perkiness, the city solicitor, said.

In municipal court last month, the owners of Mine's were found guilty of having too much trash in the back and letting grease pour down a storm drain.

The judge ordered them to pay a $5000 fine, serve 60 hours of community service and submit to weekly inspections by police.

The restaurant's also due for another routine inspection by the county.

"Is this a good restaurant that had a bad day?" Leslie asked Cirri.

"I would say so, yes," Cirri said. "I think they're on the right track."

Ming's is one of eight restaurants temporarily shut down by DeKalb county health inspectors in the last year.


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Sunday, May 24, 2009

Miniature Cows.. Human cruelty continues...I'm getting sader by the day!



Farms downsize with miniature cows

Quote:"Aren't they sweet?" asked Ali, 52, shooing Half-Pint, Buttercup and a dozen other cattle across a holding pen. "They're my babies, every little one of them."

Source:http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-miniature-cows24-2009may24,0,7037757.story

...and then the "Babies" Are send off to slaughter houses like this






and we don't stop at cows & pigs... Horse are fair game too



Wednesday, May 20, 2009

Action Alert Miami Date County Florida Serial Killer

People who hurt innocent defenseless beings are the lowest scum. Remember someone who can do this to a helpless animals has no ability for compassion and will eventually move on to hurting or even killing a human,maybe is already doing so. This is serious on so many levels.

Here is an alert. If you live in Florida and know who is doing this to these cats... please contact your local authorities!

Authorities ask anyone with information to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Or they can call Miami-Dade Detective Dominick Columbro at 305-234-4237 or Miami-Dade Animal Services Investigator Fernando J. Casadevall Jr. at 305-884-1102, ext. 240.
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Jennifer Lebovich and Howard Cohen The Miami Herald


MIAMI - Along a quiet street in Cutler Bay, neighbors awoke last week to a startling discovery: mutilated cats left on display in the yards of family homes. Some skinned, others sliced across the stomach -- the bodies were left like talismans in some horror movie.In all, city officials and police say, there have been about 20 cats reported found maimed and killed in Cutler Bay and Palmetto Bay. Miami-Dade police, with the assistance of the county's animal services, are investigating the mystery but have made no arrests."We take a very dim view of this,'' said Detective Bobby Williams, a Miami-Dade police spokesman. "We find it very disturbing an individual would do something like this to defenseless animals.''''We're looking into whether or not these cases are linked,'' he said.

The rash of cat deaths, first reported last week, prompted Palmetto Bay Mayor Eugene Flinn to issue this warning on Monday: "Residents should keep their cats inside their homes until it has been determined who or what has caused these deaths and there is no longer a threat to the feline population of the village.''On Tuesday, the Humane Society of the United States announced a $2,500 reward for information leading to an arrest and conviction in what they said were "serial cat killings.''''This is particularly gruesome and egregious,'' said Jennifer Hobgood, the organization's Florida director. "If you speak to the investigator, the phrase he used is that the cats are being left like `little trophies.' ''


A police report from a woman who found two cats in her yard in the 19700 block of Whispering Pines Road describes two mutilated cats: "Both were sliced open and one was posed.''Such was the case for Chris Quarles, whose 11-year-old cat Jack was found dead last week. A Miami-Dade school counselor, Quarles said it seems as though the killings were methodical.''He was skinned from the belly all the way down and had cut marks on his back leg,'' he said."The police said some cats were missing up to a week and then showed up back at their [owner's] house dismembered and killed. Somebody is thinking about what he's doing.''His cat was found dead Thursday, within a day of about 10 cats being found in the same neighborhood.Said Cutler Bay Mayor Paul Vrooman: "There are human victims in this and families' hearts are broken and they are going through grief as their pets are being killed.''The scene was similar in Palmetto Bay, where Alicia Glatzer's husband found the body of one of the family's cats, Sarah, in the yard.Part of her face was missing, her belly had been skinned and her intestines spilled onto the grass. Though it seemed unlikely, they thought the cat had been struck by a car. Then they heard news reports about the injuries inflicted on other cats nearby.''We have two other cats,'' Alicia Glatzer said. "My concern is every day when I walk out whether I'll find another dead cat outside.''Barbara Wiesinger, 68, said she found the bodies of several cats in her Cutler Bay neighborhood before finding her 15-year-old calico, named Cami, a few houses away. Gone was part of the cat's face.''Your mind can't wrap around the why of it, or even the how,'' she said. "How did they get them and what are they going to do now?''

Authorities ask anyone with information to call Miami-Dade Crime Stoppers at 305-471-TIPS. Or they can call Miami-Dade Detective Dominick Columbro at 305-234-4237 or Miami-Dade Animal Services Investigator Fernando J. Casadevall Jr. at 305-884-1102, ext. 240.

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