A Slaughterhouse Meth Lab

May 12, 2008

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Earlier today, there was a huge immigration sweep at America’s biggest kosher slaughterhouse. More than 300 of the plant’s 1000 workers were arrested. A few years back, this same company was the focus of a PETA investigation that yielded the most graphic cruelty video I’ve ever seen.

But here’s where the story takes a bizarre twist. A former supervisor at the plant says employees had been operating a methamphetamine lab inside the slaughterhouse. I had to reread this ten times before writing this up, and I still can’t believe it.

Now seems the perfect time to quote the company’s website, cuz, you know, they’re really a swell group of people devoted to their religious principles. Right. According to USA Today, the company’s website reads:

As a producer of kosher meat products, we approach our business in the context of a deep religious tradition. The nine rabbinic authorities that use Agriprocessors to serve the needs to their congregations define the requirements for kosher meat production at our plant, and train and supervise the rabbis who conduct the religious rituals. The values expressed in the kosher rituals and requirements are a part of the values shared by our employees, regardless of their religious beliefs.

I had no idea that crystal meth was part of a deep religious tradition. The truth really is stranger than fiction. Link.

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