>>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.
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?