Workers at Canada’s Largest Dairy Farm Jailed for Animal Cruelty

[llamedos]

http://www.mercyforanimals.org/historic-victory-workers-at-canadas-largest

 

[lazy farmer]

appalling

 

[Moors Farmer]

appalling

Agreed .

 

[jockthethistle]

...GRIM. GRIM ... GRIM. jtt

 

[Cowcalf]

hang them and beat them see how they like it. Disgusting

 

[Yosemite Sam]

That is awful to say the least all of it, but what the hell did they expect to achieve letting the parlour keep turning with those two cows down. Give them some of their own medicine. I say

 

[coomoo]

Forced myself to watch that. Scum utter utter scum.

 

[buffalo_soldier]

Couldn't get through it myself

 

[betweenthelines]

how long before Farm Assurance includes g a few cameras about the place to monitor animal welfare?

 

[Aircooled]

Not sure it does any good posting that stuff on here. Hated that other thread too. Sorry.

 

[Clay52]

Ok. This doesn't look good at all but this could be 12 months or more worth off footage to get that 1 minute video. Taken out of context it's easy to make things look bad.

The beating of the cows is totally not on and I think one guy burnt a cigarette on a cow but a lot of it wasn't animal cruelty. Mastitis, a cows with an abscess, cows standing in a yard.

Unfortunately cows can go down in the parlour. It doesn't look good, I for sure don't beat them but you need to get them up.

One part showed a cow in the middle of the rotary. We had that happen for the first time in 23 years of our rotary but if someone videoed that it wouldn't have looked good. We then welded some bars up to make sure it can't happen again. Playing the odds probably not money well spent but we did it because we don't want it to ever happen again.

 

[Clay52]

It also looks like a poorly designed rotary entrance. And one thing is for sure if that was my dairy that stick is going up someones arse.

 

[jerseycowsman]

I am not condoning what we've seen here.
But I could cobble together a load of clips of police using crowd control methods and make them out to be a load of thugs

 

[multi power]

I would be interested to know how many people were involved, and who knew what was going on.

 

[Headless chicken]

I hate it that it has to descend into an anti dairy message. That video shouldn't have had anything to do with cows having mastitis or a swollen hock. That was about the poor treatment of those cows

 

[William Mellor]

They defiantly shouldn't be hitting cows like that and dare I say it there is something wrong with the design of where the cows are stood in the rotary of they are going down like that

 

[SilliamWhale]

I am not condoning what we've seen here.
But I could cobble together a load of clips of police using crowd control methods and make them out to be a load of thugs

Does it matter though?

 

[Kiwi Pete]

So fecking angry
I really wish I hadn't clicked that but I had to see
And they got it on video, brilliant, gives the "poor mummy cow gets raped for her baby cow's milk" people just an ounce more ammo to use against those of us who hug our cows
And sing them songs
Feck sake

 

[coomoo]

No way am I watching it again but just looking at the picture in the first post, stockboard the race up to the parlour to help cow flow......... usually in all set ups tweaks will help man and beast.

 

[Buford T. Justice]

It also looks like a poorly designed rotary entrance. And one thing is for sure if that was my dairy that stick is going up someones arse.

Yeah, it does look like it needs a bit of work to improve cow flow, doesn't it.

Some of the images there are disturbing, tbh. The lifting of cows by the head is never ideal and is usually the absolute last option. Looking at it again today, surely a hip lifter would be a much easier and humane way of lifting a cow out of a compromised position. I have occasion to use one when a cow gets stuck in a cubicle and it's a much simpler option and less stressful for man and beast.

I wonder how much training and/or supervision those guys had. As someone posted earlier, it is most likely clips taken over a long period of time but being portrayed as an everyday occurrence but someone in a position of authority surely had to have known what was occurring there?