Year of Investigation:
2011
Location:
E6 Cattle Company, TX, USA
Investigating Organization:
Mercy For Animals
Description of Abuse from Investigating Organization:
An MFA investigator documented sickening animal abuse at E6 Cattle Company—a massive calf ranch in Texas that houses up to 10,000 baby calves at a time for the dairy industry. The video footage shows:
- Workers bludgeoning calves in their skulls with pickaxes and hammers—often involving five to six blows, sometimes more, before rendering the animals unconscious
- Beaten calves, still alive and conscious, thrown onto dead piles
- Workers kicking downed calves in the head, and standing on their necks and ribs
- Calves confined to squalid hutches, thick with manure and urine buildup, and barely large enough for the calves to turn around or fully extend their legs
- Gruesome injuries and afflictions, including open sores, swollen joints, and severed hooves
- Ill, injured, and dying calves denied medical care
- The budding horns of calves burned out of their skulls without painkillers
Read the full story and view footage from the investigation at Mercy For Animals.