The deplorable conditions uncovered at Conklin Dairy Farms highlight the reality that animal agriculture is incapable of self-regulation and that meaningful federal and state laws must be implemented and strengthened to prevent egregious cruelty to farmed animals.
Something about this whole story/episode doesn't add up, IMHO...
Cleveland paper reported this a.m. that the owner of the farm also was seen on video abusing the cows...so it's not a case of one random psychopath committing horrendous acts of cruelty, unless the paper got the story wrong...
So, we have a whole group of psycho dairy farm workers inflicting (or at least complicit in) terrible abuse on innocent livestock, despite being within 25 miles of the state capitol, within easy range of Farm Bureau inspectors, and probably involved with customers, neighbors, delivery people, etc...
Not to mention, it really is critical right now to avoid even the slightest appearance of animal abuse, with the state poised to impose stringent animal rights regulations at the first hint of an excuse for it...
and this 4th generation dairy farm business is either ignorant or unconcerned about that, as well as all being unspeakably, inhumanly cruel across the board?
Did not watch the video, and if these accusations are true, then the perpetrators should be taken out and shot, after first being subjected for a few hours to the same treatment they gave the animals...
But the whole sordid story just doesn't make sense to me...