Recently-released footage from an undercover Animal Outlook investigation reveals disturbing dairy farm abuse. Factory farm workers lift and drag injured cows by tractors, kicking and shocking the animals.
Allegedly, employees also use high-pressure hoses to spray cows in the face, cows already too weak to walk on their own. They supposedly drag the ailing creatures with a tractor and metal hip clamp. One cow was said to have been suspended 20 feet in the air before being yanked across a cement floor.
Sick and dying, these cows receive no medical care or basic nourishment. Their basic living conditions are abysmal, surrounded by feces and covered in flies.
Investigator Erin Wing witnessed and filmed the unspeakable cruelty at the Southern California factory farm, Dick Van Dam Dairy, which supplies TruMoo, a brand of milk for school lunches.
Animal Outlook workers followed truckloads of “spent” cows to a stockyard. And later, they documented separate trucks traveling to American Beef Packers (ABP), a company that sells food products to the National School Lunch Program.
These horribly abused cows may be served to children in schools.
After reviewing the case, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a lawsuit against the factory farm as well as the suspects of animal cruelty.
Wing, who since retired from undercover work, managed to rescue one tortured calf, Samuel. He is now in a loving home at the California sanctuary, Animal Place. He will never again have to endure the pain and trauma of life on a factory farm.
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I don’t understand why people have to do this things to animals. Animals have feelings too. Do they think by mistreating the animals makes them a bigger man, it doesn’t. It makes them a smaller person. They need to have a case of an eye for an eye.
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Truly, the world cannot adopt veganism fast enough. Dairy would be a good place to start, as the whole industry is PREDICATED on abusing mothers and babies. No milk without babies, people! Agricultural ‘science’ has messed with all domesticated species (to make them grow bigger, faster and make more money for those who are using them) but they haven’t managed to get mama cows to lactate without first being pregnant and delivering a baby.
All of her babies are taken from mama cow pretty much right away (one ‘Organic’ farm confirmed that the babies are removed within the first 4 hours). And they cry. They cry out for the babies that they’ll never see again. And then they are impregnated again. And do you know what happens to male babies? They’re raised for veal.
Please, please, please stop buying milk, cheese, cream & yogurt made from cow boob milk. Delicious plant-based alternatives abound!!!
Disgusting!! Imagine torturing and dragging cows, poking them in the eyes??!! Unforgivable, I hope their eyes are poked out in Prison!!
All this ATROCIOUS INEXCUSABLE AND SHAMEFUL SHOCKING CRUELTY TO THESE DEFENSELESS DAIRY COWS and other wonderful animals MUST BE STOPPED with great force and strong determination by politicians, the public and authorities of EVERY STRIPE!!
All this suffering and pain will destroy this universe and all humanity will pay a very HEAVY price: ie: this pandemic and more worse to come!! How can these monstrous idiots be allowed to continue day after day and cause such misery and terror without severe repercussions???
I cried watching those evil scumbags do cruel acts on the dairy cows. The 2nd video, I cried till I got very angry. It would not do for me to be there and watch in person. That would really make me go insane till there will be lesser humans
I cried watching those evil scumbags do cruel acts on the dairy cows. The 2nd video, I cried till I got very angry. It would not do for me to be there and watch in person. That would really make me go insane till there will be lesser humans
Wherever this film was shot should be taken to the Animal Humane Society for Cruelty to Animals, and then punished accordinly!! This is NOT acceptable!!! Not ALL farms are like this or treat their animals like this!! These people are the worst I’ve ever seen and it’s time the authorities have been brought in and you NEED TO TAKE YOUR FILM TO THE HUMANE SOCIETY AND THE POLICE WHERE THIS FARM IS!!! THIS BEHAVIOR HAS GOT TO STOP!!! NO ANIMAL DESERVES THIS KIND OF TREATMENT!! AND THE PEOPLE DOING THIS SHOULD BE TREATED THE SAME WAY!!! HOW WOULD THEY LIKE IT!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE TAKE THIS TO THE AUTHORITIES AND THE HUMANE SOCIETY OF AMERICA!! Take it to the United States Department of Agriculture and the AMERICAN HUMANE SOCIETY as well as your local one. Take it to the NEWS CHANNELS, DO WHATEVER YOU HAVE TO TO GET THIS TO STOP!!! As I said NOT all farms are NOT like this!! You have to act for them as they can’t talk for themselves!! PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE!!
I am crying my eyes out listening and watching this diabolical abuse of farm animals on dairy farms: Is it the same in the UK?
I worked as a milk recorder for the milk industry and it wasn’t pleasant particularly since I joined when the Mad cow disease was at it’s peak, Wow such fun?
None of the herdsmen were happy and none of them by one wanted me there during their milking.
I was self employed and was paid by the herd number. By the time I had sat and written down all my recordings I was losing money fast in this job. One farm I had to be up and dressed by 3 am to get there as they started milking at 4am. As if I could go to bed and sleep at 9 pm!!
I slowed them down that;s why they hated my presence all except the nice chap at Wye college farm and he left, and started up a haberdashery stall in the market and it failed miserably. :'(
I never saw any bad goings on when I was there, but I also worked as a calf feeder for calves on their way to the docks at Dover. Very early start again of course; pitch black. Like the hearts of some that work with animals just for the hell of abusing them. Im sure a lot of that is done to vent their anger on the innocent.
Now there was abuse. I got moaned at for taking too long cos I constantly told them some had NOT been fed.
I strongly object to live export of animals anyway and this showed me what they went through here in UK …..just wait til they get abroad. Poor buggers I feel so bad for them.
People think that drinking cow’s milk is healthy, but it is not. The dairy industry is very cruel. Eating a vegan diet is healthier than a diet of meat, poultry, and dairy.
Lord,
Why is our so called human society able to have this happening all over our country. I am sick to my stomach. I cannot wait until our Lord brings them to their just do!
I cannot understand why people in this world are so outright cruel towards animals, whether they are pets, or farmed animals that will eventually go to slaughter. They have feelings, can feel pain too. Those in the video should be treated the same way. So upsetting I could not watch all of it.
Do the ‘managers and owners’ of these disgusting, sickening hell-hole dairy farms ACTUALLY seek to employ glorified thugs and animal abusers? And for the same management and owners to say that they are unaware of such horrific, cruel, brutal, sadistic, barbaric abuse is nothing but LIES. They are as guilty of these atrocities as the so-called workers as they stand and watch and do NOTHING so they should be charges as well. This is NOT just a single incident this level of sickening abuse is happening to MOST dairy farms, and in fact, to all other farm animals as well, such as sheep, pigs chickens, goats, the list is endless. How these ‘workers’ can sleep at night and like who they see in the mirror is beyond my comprehension….goodness knows how they treat their family and do they have discussions of their day’s work…Oh today, i just stomped on a fallen cow, picked up a small calf and threw it across the yard, beat some slow cows with metal bar and baseball bats, stabbed them with a pitchfork as they didn’t move quick enough, oh don’t forget I just dumped some sick animals in a different barn so they could just starve to death and die…all in a good day’s work!!!
The workers should be treated the same way they treated those poor cows 🐄🐄🐄🐄.
THOSE PSYCHOTIC MONEY HUNGRY EVIL FARMERS SHOULD PAY A VERY HIGH A PRICE WITH THEIR OWN LIFE ONE DAY, FOR THESE CRIMES THEY COMMIT ON SUCH INNOCENT, DEFENSELESS ANIMALS. What goes around must come around.
This seems to be the norm and has to end
All this ATROCIOUS INEXCUSABLE AND SHAMEFUL SHOCKING CRUELTY TO THESE DEFENSELESS DAIRY COWS and other wonderful animals MUST BE STOPPED with great force and strong determination by politicians, the public and authorities of EVERY STRIPE!!
All this suffering and pain will destroy this universe and all humanity will pay a very HEAVY price: ie: this pandemic and more worse to come!! How can these monstrous idiots be allowed to continue day after day and cause such misery and terror without severe repercussions???
I know dairies that are NOTHING like this. The owners know and name their cows, care for their caves and have staff that run the milking “parlors” without hitting any animal. In fact the cows willingly go to get milked. When it’s time to take older animals to slaughter, they are transported and killed humanely.
This is a film of unmitigated cruelty towards animals. I can only hope that this dairy farm is an anomaly compared to the farms
I know.
There’s a special place n hell 4 folks like these thatl cant stand back & watch these animals being tortured!!!! & 2 think these freaks r feeding their fat faces with the same animal they did this 2!!!! I think they should be locked up 4 it. No doubt!!!!
What horrific treatment that is wholly unnecessary. Farms like these simply need to be shut down forever. I cannot imagine what the people who work here and perform these horrendous operations are truly like.
this is sickening and very disturbing that things like this are going on in the world today. people are cruel and this needs to stop. the people responsable for this need to be put in prison and never be allowed to be anywhere animals ever again or children.
I could only watch part of the dairy cows video. I was mortified and cried. People must see this to realize what is going on behind the doors. The abuse is horrible and so unnecessary. Bullies work there -they can hurt the cows and calves and get away with it. I fear for the people that know these men and I fear the owner, he allows it.
I am so glad a lawsuit has been filed. Thankfully people are waking up to these horrors. There is no more place for this behaviour in the modern world.
Feel the animals’ pain.
IM CRYING FOR ALL THE POOR COWS AND ALL — THEY SHOULD STILL BE TREATED WITH RESPECT FOR THE TIME THEY ARE ALIVE – THEY ARE GIVING THEIR LIVES FOR FOOD — ALL THESE WORKERS SHOULD BE TORTURED LIKE THEY TORTURED THESE COWS …..
With all due respect Donna, these sentient beings do not “give their lives for food.” They want very much to live – just like we do.
The only way to stop this torture is to GO VEGAN – I promise you will never regret this decision.
What a corruption to Society . The people in this world bare so inhumane . This system needs attention Immediately and I mean a Immediately. How would a human being love to be tortured and he kicked in deep in your eyes popped out. Think about it and this abuse now this is totally inhumane and corrupt society.
What a corruption to Society . The people in this world bare so inhumane . This system needs attention Immediately and I mean a Immediately. How would a human being love to be tortured and he kicked in deep in your eyes popped out. Think about it and this abuse now this is totally inhumane and corrupt society.
Terrible,
There will always be abused animals in factory farms. The only solution is to go vegan. If we wait for officials to rectified those atrocities many will die at the hands of corruption and greed.