Posted on 11/12/2017 11:33:37 AM PST by 4Runner
A Florida dairy farm is under criminal investigation after an undercover video from an animal rights group revealed workers kicking cows in the head and beating them with metal rods.
Warning: The following video includes footage that viewers may find disturbing.
The video was shot by a member of Animal Recovery Mission who went undercover in August as a farm worker at Larson Dairy in Okeechobee County. The footage shows men brutally abusing cows as the bovines cower and duck their heads. In some cases, the cows are unable to get away because they are confined by bars meant to restrain them for the milking process.
Larson Dairy was a supplier of Publix Super Markets, which has announced it suspended deliveries from the farm in the wake of the video....
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Have you price any lately?
Yep, I’m right there with you.
As far as hunting goes, I support the killing of any animal for food needs, or for other such needs as culling herds, or dangerous animals.
I personally would hunt anything up to and including a deer, but nothing after. I do not support big game hunting at all, such as those people who go to Africa to kill animals. I’m not interested in killing great cats and elephants, however if there was a self defense situation that made such necessary, then yes.
Above all other things, I am an animal lover, a dog lover in particular, and a German Shepherd lover specifically.
However, I show all of God’s animals mercy and love.
Except for human animal abusers. They don’t want to meet me. Those ones shall receive from me what they give to animals, and they won’t like it.
That’s not what I was saying either FRiend.
Tx,
All around the big lake are whole towns of illegals where ICE, NEVER go.
South Bay, Pahoke, LaBelle, Okeechobee, and many others are filled with illegal that work cheep.
Big sugar, big cattle, big citrus. Illegals.
Lefties don't care about murders and rapes of people by our Mexican Betters... but they WOULD care about animal abuse. We should use these videos as a weapon for deportation advocacy. Let's see the Libs argue for keeping animal abusers.
Why is it taking so long to deport illegals esp those doing illegal activities? It has everything to do with big business. I think may be it is time to deport the companies. Leave the really sweet animals** here and deport the people who run the companies and their henchmen.
Most dairy cows are truly nice animals...the bulls are another story. However, there is never, ever any excuse to beat up dairy cows or any other animal, not really. If they are so mean or crazy they have to be put down, then do that but humanely.
There are no inhumane practices in the industry. No farmer would ever do those things, or tolerate them being done on their farms. These are either human scum harming both the animals and the employer's bottom line, or they are plants being paid by those taking the videos. Beating your livestock makes as much sense as smashing your own farm equipment.
I had an opportunity to spend part of a week at a Vermont dairy farm with several hundred cows.
They treated the animals with respect, and the animals seemed quite docile and happy to me.
Who the hell would mistreat a cow? Cows are one of the most even tempered animals out there, what on earth besides simple sadism would prompt it?
Shameful.
There are no doubt operations that tolerate an endless system of birth-to-death exploitation and cruelty. But even those that aren’t overtly sadistic the death rate of dairy cows is very high. Exhausted and prematurely aged by what ?
Constant lactation ? Frequent disease ? The bottom line is that all farmers need to have their cows produce a large amount of milk in order for their dairies to remain competitive which doesn’t necessarily align with the natural needs and practices of the cows themselves.
On the farm I stayed at, I asked if I could explore the property, and the farmer said sure, go anywhere you want...he suggested if I was interested, to take a look at their prize bull.
So, it was pouring rain and all mud, so I put on rain gear and walked down to where there was a structure with dozens of cows milling about. They stopped and regarded me, gazing with their uninterested look as they chewed, but sure enough, there was the bull, his head sticking FAR up above the backs of the cows.
And he had is eyes on me.
It wasn’t the dull, bored, disinterested look of the cows, it was a laser-focus, hostile look that made me feel distinctly uncomfortable.
And it didn’t waver during the fifteen minutes I was poking around. I haven’t spent much time around livestock, but I would wager that bull was somewhere between 1000-1500 lbs. And it was all muscle.
As I walked around, I could FEEL the thing looking at me, and when I turned around...it sure was. At one point, it put its front legs on top of some structure in the pen, and with an immediate feeling of danger, I thought “Jesus Christ. That thing can get out of there!” Then it went over to the gate and began pounding its head against the gate, and I thought “If that thing were to get out, I would be a grease spot.”
I decided I had enough sightseeing and left.
That was extremely intimidating.
I’ve helped dairy farmers doing tie-stall milking round the “girls” up from the pasture at milking time.
Some get up just by seeing you.
Some get up when you call their name.
And some don’t get up until you swat them across the rump with a 10 1/2—and not just once!
While I was at that farm, they had several calves birthed, and they would stick the calf in the front of a front loader with one of the employees, and take it up to the row of calf pens.
It was odd to me, but it all seemed quite businesslike.
Later in the day, as I sat on the porch watching, one of the employees went to clean the pens, looked in, and waved to the farmer who was perhaps 100 yards away, and when she got his attention, she drew her finger across her throat.
They just got the front loader, put the calf in it, and took it down to a ditch they dug and buried it. That was it. Very businesslike.
But they completely did not have to use any force at all that I saw the entire time they were there. They pretty much just steered the cows where they wanted them to go, and when they were done, steered them somewhere else.
At some point, a number of the cows broke out and went up to the pens that had the calves. They just walked up to the cows, and led the all back to the cow shed.
They seemed like contented cows, and the staff seemed very unstressed. Even when a couple of pigs got out, the farmer just matter of factly got them back into their pen.
The whole workflow seemed extremely structured, predictable and a bit quiet and sedate. 4 AM to 10 AM, milking #1. 4 PM to 10 PM, milking #2. All kinds of steady work and cleaning in between.
Very different pace of work. It didn’t appear to be back breaking work, but it was 100% steady and paced.
I talked to a young man in his late teens or early twenties, and he said he loved the work. I asked him if he grew up on a dairy farm, and he said no, but his sister dated one of the farmer’s sons, and they asked him once if he wanted some work, and...now that is his livelihood.
I think I could understand how someone could love that work. My work is hair on fire work. I didn’t see a lot of things to make your hair catch on fire there.
I agree this kind of animal abuse is disgusting!
You raised a question with your statement “Not sure what Hispanic/Anglo has to do with it.”
I answered it is a sarcastic way.
As other have pointed out in more detail............ Hispanic/Anglo most likely had everything to do with the cow being beaten.
Remove the clouds from your eyes.
I will say...those chickens live absolutely horrible lives...in giant rows of cages with no room to even move...and I grew up on a farm...
That is why I buy only range free eggs.
Yup. If illegals were gone, eggs would cost more. Millenials won’t do that work for a bit above min wage — simple, highly repetitive, work all day long, no phone — they quit in days. Wages would have to jump to keep Americans.
The manager explained. They WANT illegals simply because of the bottom line period...in this case the almighty dollar rules.
And that’s why CoC, RINOs and many otherwise good Americans want them. Time for feet to meet fire. Time to bust, fine and jail the employers of illegals.
Exactly!
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