Year of Investigation:
2009
Location:
Willet Dairy, NY, USA
Investigating Organization:
Mercy For Animals
Description of Abuse from Investigating Organization:
A Mercy For Animals investigation pulled back the curtains on Willet Dairy, the largest dairy factory farm in New York State and a former supplier to Leprino Foods. Leprino Foods is the largest pizza cheese producer in the world. Evidence gathered during the investigation reveals:
- Cows with bloody open wounds, prolapsed uteruses, pus-filled infections, and swollen joints, apparently left to suffer without veterinary care
- “Downed” cows—those too sick or injured to even stand—left to suffer for weeks before dying or being killed
- Workers hitting, kicking, punching, and electric shocking cows and calves
- Calves having their horns burned off without painkillers as a worker shoves his fingers into the calves’ eyes to restrain them
- Calves having their tails cut off—a painful practice opposed by the American Veterinary Medical Association
- Newborn calves forcibly dragged away from their mothers by their legs, causing emotional distress to both mother and calf
- Cows living in overcrowded sheds on manure-coated concrete flooring
- Workers injecting cows with a controversial bovine growth hormone used to increase milk production
Read the full story and view footage from the investigation at Mercy For Animals.
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