Take action: Tweet to USDA Secretary Sonny Perdue today! This week, Perdue toured the new Clemens Food Group plant in Coldwater, Michigan, which quietly (without opportunity for public comment) became the latest facility participating in the USDA’s dangerous high-speed slaughter pilot program known as HIMP. Afterwards, he boasted about the plant, tweeting that it “process[es] about 8,000 [pigs] per day now, with plans to expand”--yet he didn’t mention that this same slaughterhouse recently had to slow down its kill speed after it lost “process control.” Help us stop the dangerous pilot program from spreading nationwide: Tweet @SecretarySonny TODAY (http://bit.ly/2uMoqpw)! Before the opening of the Clemens plant, which was given a waiver last fall to operate under the USDA’s high-speed pilot program without opportunity for public comment, industry publications projected that the plant could kill as many as 12,000 pigs each day--or 1,500 every hour--a much faster pace than the current federal limit of 1,106 pigs per hour. New documents obtained by consumer protection group Food & Water Watch via Freedom of Information Act requests reveal that in December, not even two weeks after the waiver program was implemented, the plant’s high line speed led to a loss of “process control,” and it had to slow down. The government redacted the speed at which this occurred--and didn’t identify the reason. The expansion of the HIMP program through the USDA’s misleadingly titled Modernization of Swine Slaughter Inspection rule would threaten the welfare of consumers, pigs, and workers nationwide--yet Secretary Perdue was happy to tout his tour of Clemens, a model plant for this program. Make sure he hears the quarter million voices opposing high-speed slaughter loud and clear by tweeting at him TODAY! Use our sample below or click this link: http://bit.ly/2uMoqpw! SAMPLE TWEET: Not so fast, @USDA! @SecretarySonny, please listen to the quarter million consumers opposing dangerous high-speed slaughter and end, rather than expand, this dangerous pilot program! bit.ly/stopHIMP #NotSoFastUSDA