Post by zenkcc on Jun 8, 2010 0:46:05 GMT
This post may not be suitable for people under 16 as it does talk about animal abuse and link to a graphic youtube video.
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The ONLY reason I am posting this on a petz forum is because I assume that since most are playing petz they also care about real life animals. I have emailed everyone I know of higher standing than me and also some talkshows that I thought might air footage about this hoorible situation.
For those of you who have not heard about what is going on at Conklin Dairy Farms please read the following and do whatever it is you can to stop these people from abusing their cows. If I was an Ohio resident I would STOP buying Conklin products.
Chilling undercover footage recorded during a new Mercy For Animals investigation exposed dairy farm workers sadistically abusing cows and young calves. Captured on hidden camera, the shocking scenes of abuse reveal a culture of cruelty at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, Ohio.
During a four-week investigation between April and May, MFA's investigator documented farm workers:
+Violently punching young calves in the face, body slamming them to the ground, and pulling and throwing them by their ears
+Routinely using pitchforks to stab cows in the face, legs and stomach
+Kicking "downed" cows (those too injured to stand) in the face and neck – abuse carried out and encouraged by the farm's owner
+Maliciously beating restrained cows in the face with crowbars – some attacks involving over 40 blows to the head
+Twisting cows' tails until the bones snapped
+Punching cows' udders
+Bragging about stabbing, dragging, shooting, breaking bones, and beating cows and calves to death
"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."- Dr. Bernard Rollin (Colorado State University)
Immediately upon completion of the investigation, Mercy For Animals contacted the City Prosecutor's Office of Marysville regarding the ongoing pattern of abuse at Conklin Dairy Farms. MFA is pushing for employees of the facility to be criminally prosecuted for violating Ohio's animal cruelty laws.
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.
Mercy for Animals, with Ohioans for Humane Farms and the Humane Society of the United States, supports a state ballot issue that would phase out cages at large-scale farms that don't allow animals to move naturally and outlaws killing them by hanging.
That ballot initiative does not address the kind of treatment seen in the undercover video.
Ohioans last year voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that created an appointed Livestock Care Standards Board that is now collecting public comments.
Although many of the abuses documented at Conklin Dairy Farms are sadistic in nature, numerous MFA undercover investigations at dairy farms, pig farms, egg farms, hatcheries and slaughterhouses have revealed that violence and abuse to farmed animals – whether malicious or institutionalized – runs rampant nationwide.
On may 26th A 25-year-old employee at Conklin Dairy Farms (the one seen in the video) was arrested by the Union County sheriff's office based on abuse of cows and calves depicted in an undercover video shot by an animal welfare group.
Arrested was Billy Joe Gregg Jr., 25. He was charged with 12 misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals. He is being held at the Tri-County Jail and is due in Marysville Municipal Court Thursday morning.
For those of you who do not know what a misdemeanor is, it is a punishment for a MINOR crime and genearally punished with monetary fines. To give an example, tresspassing, vandalisim, and reckless driving are all misdemeanors.
Here is a link to a letter Jamie Lee Curtis wrote to Gary Conklin about the video seen www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-lee-curtis/an-open-letter-to-gary-co_b_591730.html
I am not saying that we need to stop drinking milk and eating meat, all i am saying is that we need to be AWARE that there are people out there beating their animals to death and we are cluless. But worse than being clueless is finding out that it is occuring and turning the other cheek or thinking to yourself "Someone else will handle it, I am not powerful enough to." This is not true! Do WHATEVER you can to help these poor animals that do not have a voice and cannot escape their attacke.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON!! And if you have a strong dimeanor watch the following video.
Petition www.change.org/petitions/view/shut_down_conklin_dairy_farms_and_arrest_and_charge_gary_conklin_and_his_crew_with_animal_cruelty
AGAIN, it is graphic to an extent (no blood or anything) so PLEASE do not force yourself to watch it.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYTkM1OHFQg
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The ONLY reason I am posting this on a petz forum is because I assume that since most are playing petz they also care about real life animals. I have emailed everyone I know of higher standing than me and also some talkshows that I thought might air footage about this hoorible situation.
For those of you who have not heard about what is going on at Conklin Dairy Farms please read the following and do whatever it is you can to stop these people from abusing their cows. If I was an Ohio resident I would STOP buying Conklin products.
Chilling undercover footage recorded during a new Mercy For Animals investigation exposed dairy farm workers sadistically abusing cows and young calves. Captured on hidden camera, the shocking scenes of abuse reveal a culture of cruelty at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, Ohio.
During a four-week investigation between April and May, MFA's investigator documented farm workers:
+Violently punching young calves in the face, body slamming them to the ground, and pulling and throwing them by their ears
+Routinely using pitchforks to stab cows in the face, legs and stomach
+Kicking "downed" cows (those too injured to stand) in the face and neck – abuse carried out and encouraged by the farm's owner
+Maliciously beating restrained cows in the face with crowbars – some attacks involving over 40 blows to the head
+Twisting cows' tails until the bones snapped
+Punching cows' udders
+Bragging about stabbing, dragging, shooting, breaking bones, and beating cows and calves to death
"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."- Dr. Bernard Rollin (Colorado State University)
Immediately upon completion of the investigation, Mercy For Animals contacted the City Prosecutor's Office of Marysville regarding the ongoing pattern of abuse at Conklin Dairy Farms. MFA is pushing for employees of the facility to be criminally prosecuted for violating Ohio's animal cruelty laws.
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.
Mercy for Animals, with Ohioans for Humane Farms and the Humane Society of the United States, supports a state ballot issue that would phase out cages at large-scale farms that don't allow animals to move naturally and outlaws killing them by hanging.
That ballot initiative does not address the kind of treatment seen in the undercover video.
Ohioans last year voted in favor of a constitutional amendment that created an appointed Livestock Care Standards Board that is now collecting public comments.
Although many of the abuses documented at Conklin Dairy Farms are sadistic in nature, numerous MFA undercover investigations at dairy farms, pig farms, egg farms, hatcheries and slaughterhouses have revealed that violence and abuse to farmed animals – whether malicious or institutionalized – runs rampant nationwide.
On may 26th A 25-year-old employee at Conklin Dairy Farms (the one seen in the video) was arrested by the Union County sheriff's office based on abuse of cows and calves depicted in an undercover video shot by an animal welfare group.
Arrested was Billy Joe Gregg Jr., 25. He was charged with 12 misdemeanor counts of cruelty to animals. He is being held at the Tri-County Jail and is due in Marysville Municipal Court Thursday morning.
For those of you who do not know what a misdemeanor is, it is a punishment for a MINOR crime and genearally punished with monetary fines. To give an example, tresspassing, vandalisim, and reckless driving are all misdemeanors.
Here is a link to a letter Jamie Lee Curtis wrote to Gary Conklin about the video seen www.huffingtonpost.com/jamie-lee-curtis/an-open-letter-to-gary-co_b_591730.html
I am not saying that we need to stop drinking milk and eating meat, all i am saying is that we need to be AWARE that there are people out there beating their animals to death and we are cluless. But worse than being clueless is finding out that it is occuring and turning the other cheek or thinking to yourself "Someone else will handle it, I am not powerful enough to." This is not true! Do WHATEVER you can to help these poor animals that do not have a voice and cannot escape their attacke.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON!! And if you have a strong dimeanor watch the following video.
Petition www.change.org/petitions/view/shut_down_conklin_dairy_farms_and_arrest_and_charge_gary_conklin_and_his_crew_with_animal_cruelty
AGAIN, it is graphic to an extent (no blood or anything) so PLEASE do not force yourself to watch it.
Video: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYTkM1OHFQg