Pyramid Trading LLC: Non-Compliance to Humane Livestock Handling in 2025 (USDA)
See the detail of the non-compliance of humane livestock handling that the USDA observed at the Pyramid Trading LLC slaughterhouse establishment in 2025.
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313.16(a)(1),313.16(a)(3)
At approximately 1150 hours, while in the kill room observing slaughter operations, I CSI REDACTED observed employees loading a heifer into the kill box. The employees were having trouble getting the heifer to put its head in the head catch. The heifer was small, which allowed it to easily turn around in the chute because of excess space. The establishment decided to stun the animal by means of 9mm handgun, because they could not properly get the animal orientated in the head catch to perform the ritual cut. Two shots were fired, the heifer was not rendered unconscious and remained standing. One of the employees then jumped into the kill box, cut the neck, and the heifer bled out. The head was skinned and on postmortem inspection two distinct points of penetration were observed in the skull. U.S. Rejected tag B-45 799566 was applied to the kill box and the establishment owner was notified of the noncompliance.
