Year of Investigation:
2013
Location:
Quanah Cattle Co., Kersey, CO, USA
Investigating Organization:
Compassion Over Killing
Description of Abuse from Investigating Organization:
In 2013, a COK undercover investigator worked inside Quanah Cattle Co. (QCC), an animal agribusiness company in Kersey, Colorado that purchases newborn calves from surrounding dairy factories and temporarily confines them before shipping them out to be raised for their meat. Just days old, many of these calves – some of whom still have their umbilical cords hanging from their bodies – are too feeble or frightened to walk steadily. As our footage shows, in the process of being moved on and off trucks, these fragile animals are violently dragged by their legs, pulled by their ears, lifted by their tails, kicked, thrown, slammed, and flipped.
Animal handling expert Dr. Temple Grandin of Colorado State University decried the cruelty seen in our video, calling it “severe abuse” and “not acceptable” while further noting that
“If this facility had been a slaughter plant, the USDA would have shut them down.”
Read the full story and view footage from the investigation at Compassion Over Killing.
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