Posted on 05/26/2010 3:09:05 AM PDT by ResistorSister
Edited on 05/26/2010 4:35:29 AM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
An animal welfare group said Tuesday that a graphic video it secretly recorded shows workers at a dairy farm beating cows with crowbars, stabbing them with pitchforks and punching them in their heads.
The video was recorded in an undercover investigation at Conklin Dairy Farms Inc., said Mercy For Animals, a not-for-profit group that publicizes what it calls cruel practices in the dairy, meat and egg industries and promotes a vegan diet.
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>>protip: if you don’t want your dairy farm to become “the rallying cry for every Vegan nutjob” in the country, supervise your damn employees. <<
Well, how about if we let the Ohio authorities do their jobs and forget the AP drama?
My niece brings prize winning chickens to an auction near Amish country in Ohio. This auction is clean and well run. You store your animals there through the day and they are auctioned as their time comes. The cages can get nasty but are cleaned.
Animal rights groups have taken slanted pictures there. Luckily the sheriff is a regular attendee and knew what happened. It could have been shut down with a knee jerk reaction.
>> Don’t be obtuse.
Please don’t be obtuse yourself. Twice on this thread, posters have referenced that someone in the video is “alleged” to be the owner of the farm. I don’t see ANYWHERE in the video or on the website that makes that accusation. Where is it? It’s an honest question.
It is possible that a small percentage of farmers might mistreat their animals, but how long can they stay in business doing that?
The AP “drama” is one of the only ways to bring pressure to bear on the authorities. Do you honestly expect that someone can simply call the state Department of Ag. with a complaint that “animals are being mistreated at this or that dairy farm” with any result?
It’s on the video I have watched, now, twice. Aren’t you the expert on it? /s
The Republican leadership did good kicking him out.
I’ve put in decades on a family dairy farm. You are right about the vast majority of farm owners and workers—not because of concerns for milk production, but for the same reason most people don’t abuse their dogs. That said, there are bad apples.
Just my guess from the video: the owner kicking the cow in the head was doing so to get a lame or otherwise injured/ill cow up. Because it hurts the cow in such a circumstance to get up, it may take some sort of aversive action to get her to do so. But it may also save the cow’s life: muscle atrophy for a cow that is down can quickly lead to her end. That said, the owner took a callous and nasty approach to it, suggesting to me that he may have set the tone and had the indifference that made the improper hiring and training of the workers videoed quite possible.
Some of us can walk and chew gum at the same time.
Police raid
Pacheco visited the institute at night and took photographs that showed the monkeys' living conditions.[21] Pacheco arranged for scientists and veterinarians to visit the laboratory secretly, and finally reported the situation to the state police, who raided the laboratory under Maryland's Prevention of Cruelty to Animals law.
Trials
Taub was charged with 119 counts of animal cruelty and failing to provide adequate veterinary care. At the conclusion of the first trail, held without a jury, 113 cruelty charges were dismissed by the judge, largely because a Department of Agriculture veterinarian who had made unannounced visits to the laboratory had testified that he did not find the conditions depicted by Pacheco.[22] Taub was convicted of six misdemeanor charges of failing to provide adequate veterinary care and fined $3,500. Five of these were dismissed at a second trial, this time in front of a jury. The final charge was set aside on appeal, when the court ruled that Maryland's Prevention of Cruelty to Animals law did not apply to researchers.
As you can see, there's nothing in the legal proceedings indicating that Pacheco himself was abusing the animals, at least not in this short description.
There are always a few sick people who take pleasure in such horrors,
I’m a hunter, I eat meat, I’ve worked on farms and butchered my own food. I still don’t like killing things, though. The proper way to kill a cow or calf is for a skilled person to use a specially designed sledgehammer- death is instantaneous. Or else cut the poor creature’s throat- they black out as soon as the brain loses blood flow- seconds, not minutes. You can shoot it in the head, but be advised that a .22LR won’t penetrate a cow’s skull.
Such a painful death as depicted in the videos dumps stress hormones into the critter’s bloodstream, and spoils the flavor of the meat (unless you’re a cat.)
In this case they are trying to get the men on the video prosecuted: for it to be faked just doesn’t make sense.
>>The AP “drama” is one of the only ways to bring pressure to bear on the authorities<<
Do you know any of the authorities in that area?
I do. They get on animal abuse cases quickly. They don’t have much else to do.
Why in God’s name would you get the Department of Ag involved in a single farm incident? Overkill.
>> It’s on the video I have watched, now, twice. Aren’t you the expert on it? /s
Yeah, I finally found it. VERY brief, that’s why I missed it.
Good filmmaking though. Get the owner associated with the abuse by any means necessary, and even if it paints a false picture.
Maybe this case is located somewhere where things are just peachy . . . .
No, it was in the reports in the scientific journals and in later investigative reporting. This is how he had access to the lab. When this little detail gets left out it changes the story.
Taub BTW after he was acquitted packed up his lab and continued his research in another state.
Dude, it's his farm. Abuse on his farm is his fault. That's the law.
I don't care if this group got creative, or not. The animals are being mistreated on this farm, and it's on film.
I grew up on a farm. I’m all about eating animals and such.
That guy is a sadist. He needs to be locked up. No discussion.
>> That’s the law.
OK. What part of “it’s been referred to local prosecutors” did you not get?
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