Owner of Slaughterhouse to be Subpeonaed

Members of the U.S. House oversight committee are expected to order the owner of the Southern California slaughterhouse involved in the largest beef recall in the nation's history to testify on Capitol Hill. Member of the Committee on Energy and Commerce's Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations were expected to vote today7 to subpoena Hallmark/Westland Meat Co. owner, Steve Mendell. Rep. John Dingell, Democrat from Michigan, said Monday that Mendell would be required to testify on March 12. Mendell was a no-show at a meeting of the subcommittee last week. Federal officials recalled 143 million pounds of beef last month after the Humane Society of the United States released undercover video that showed workers at the Chino slaughterhouse shoving sick and crippled cows with forklifts and stunning them with electric prods to get them to stand.