By DOUGLAS QUAN and JANET ZIMMERMAN, The Press-Enterprise

When Michael Markarian watched video of workers at the Westland/Hallmark Meat Co. in Chino, Calif., jabbing cows with forklifts and shooting water up their noses, it wasn't just the images that gave him chills.It was the cows' moans and cries, said Markarian, executive vice president of the Humane Society of the United States."Haunting," he said.