Mercy for Animals just released undercover video footage revealing extreme, malicious cruelty at a dairy farm in Ohio. The investigation took place over four weeks between April and May at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, where the routine abuse documented included stabbing cows with pitchforks, violently punching young calves in the face, twisting cows' tails until the bones snapped, beating restrained cows with crowbars ... and bragging about it all.
Dr. Bernard Rollin, professor of animal science at Colorado State University, said "This is probably the most gratuitous, sustained, sadistic animal abuse I have ever seen. The video depicts calculated, deliberate cruelty, based not on momentary rage but on taking pleasure through causing pain to cows and calves who are defenseless."
If you have the stomach to watch the video, you can see it on the petition created by Change.org member, Joan E Loza Mobry, to shut down Conklin Dairy Farms. You've been warned: it's graphic and disturbing.
As Dr. Rollin said, it's not just the abuse — which is bad enough — but the sadistic nature of the cruelty. As I watched, I kept wondering how these farm workers could face other human beings, act like they'd just had a regular day on the job, or as if they were capable of normal relationships.
http://animals.change.org/blog/view/investigation_reveals_sadistic_cruelty_at_ohio_dairy_farm
