Friday, May 28, 2010

Got Milk?

This is a video that the dairy industry doesn't want shown.



This is not normal for dairy farms. Here's a bit from the GreenMuze site that provides some background:
A recently released undercover video of sadistic abuse at the Conklin Dairy Farms Inc. in Plain City, Ohio is generating colossal shock waves in the media and farming communities across North America. The undercover video, filmed by Mercy For Animals during roughly a one month period in late April to May, 2010, shows diary farm workers beating cows with crowbars, punching calves in the face, stabbing animals with pitchforks, holding down newborn calves and stomping on their heads. The video is extremely graphic and goes far beyond rough handling into sadistic criminal violence against animals.

One Conklin Dairy Farms Inc. worker identified in the video, Billy Joe Gregg Jr., was quickly fired from the dairy and has been charged with 12 counts of cruelty. The Conklin Dairy Farms released a statement that explained “We will not condone animal abuse on our farm. We have launched our own internal investigation into this matter and will be conducting interviews with everyone on our farm who works with our animals."
This site wants to milk (pun intended) this video for dollars and sell you their "vegan" philosophy. I'm glad that they made this video public, but Their use this to paint the whole industry as cruel is reprehensible. Maybe not as vicious as the dairy farmer, but along the same line of self-serving "morality".

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