Land O'Lakes Says It Doesn't Inspect Facilities for the Treatment of Animals October 1, 2009
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Here's an update from PETA's Heather Drennan on our new undercover investigation into a dairy farm. Check it out, and if you haven't yet, why not make the pledge to try veganism?
-Marta
PETA's investigation footage from a filthy Pennsylvania dairy facility that supplies Land O'Lakes continues to receive massive press coverage. All the coverage has prompted the Fortune 250 company to issue an official statement—one that only serves to highlight the profit-driven callousness and lack of concern for animals within the corporation and the dairy industry as a whole.
Jeanne Forbis, the director of communications at Land O'Lakes, said, "[W]hen state-certified inspectors do inspections at dairy farms they are inspecting for milk and equipment sanitation practices, not animal treatment."
Is that supposed to be the "excuse" for why the Land O'Lakes inspector didn't bother to note that cows were living in filth, without bedding or a clean, dry place for shelter? Or that lameness and mastitis were rampant? How about the fact that there were cows who were so debilitated and thin that they looked like skeletons with skin draped over them?
Frankly, the inspector didn't do very well on inspecting for sanitation either. Take a look at the video—animals are virtually swimming in a soup of urine and fecal matter. All Forbis's comment does is raise some serious doubts about the quality of the sanitation inspections that led to the approval of this facility.
Various agencies are now looking into PETA's allegations of abuse, as well as sanitation and food safety violations, against the dairy facility's owners. Abuse of animals in the dairy industry is nothing new, so please consider dropping cholesterol and cruelty-filled dairy products from your diet.
-Heather
Comments
Ughh!! This gets me so pissed! Seeing them shock, kick, and stab them like that.. I hate it! And that poor cow that fell and was getting stepped over by other cows, it's gruesome. Just HORRIBLE. And all that poop that they wont clean... that's pure lazyness. I can't stand this.
Posted by: Abby at October 1, 2009 7:37 PMTHISS IISS BULLSHITTT NO OFFENSE WAT HES SAYINGG!!! how cann he say something like that,wat he is doing is animal cruelty b/c they are not well taken care off.it gets me soo mad that we live in a we can say powerfull country and even though we see this type of things everydayy!!! still nothing happends the president doesnt do nothing soo that animals can have bill of rights...all animals should be treated equally its not fair wat these animals go trhough!! ITS A DISGRACE THAT THERE ARE STUPID PEOPLE LIKE THEM DOING THIS BULLSHIT!!!! THEY SHOULD GET PUNISHEDD FOR WAT THEY DID ALLL THEY CARE ABOUT ISS ALL ABOUT THE fU@#N MONEY!!!!
Posted by: nivia at October 1, 2009 11:01 PMLike it was metioned...the health of the animals and their treatment needs to be inspected because it CAN affect the health of the humans who are consuming the dairy products. The animals, since they most likely have to do stuff like give up their babies, should at least be treated with the respect that they deserve. People are going to watch this and be like, "Ewww...so THIS is what my milk and cheese and ice cream came from...hmmm...maybe something else will be better tasting, and better for my health."
Let's end this cruelty and make dairy animals HAPPY animals!
Posted by: Erika at October 2, 2009 9:24 AMThats awful! I didn't even know they were in PA and I live here...
I think it is smart ablance that I use because they have a vegan margrine... :)
How dare they just give a throwaway comment like that aftre the suffering and totruring of these animals by the workers of there company supposed to be looking after the animals especially after one gave birth then two days later she was killed. its absoloutly physcotic of the workers to jab a already tortmented animal with a blade and stungun that is a life a living breathing life that should be treated with care and respect.
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soooo going on my myspace (:
this is so sick, i really hate omnivores.
Posted by: krystal at October 1, 2009 7:13 PM