The fallout from a hidden video showing workers in a Murtaugh dairy abusing dairy cows continues with the group that filmed the video, Mercy for Animals, asking that anyone doing business with the dairy refrain from doing so, according to a story in the Twin Falls Times-News.
The dairy’s owner has fired the five workers involved, shown the video to all his employees and had them sign a document saying cruelty to animals is not accepted. In addition, he has installed more cameras in his facilities and hired an additional supervisor. The video shows workers beating cows when they were down, a cow being dragged out of a building and workers stomping on cows while they are in metal stalls.
Three of the five dismissed workers are being charged with misdemeanor cruelty to animals.
Female cows are forcibly artificially inseminated to become pregnant and continue lactating. After 9 months, the dairy industry steals these baby calves shortly after they are born. The “worthless” males who can’t make milk are either killed immediately or kept in isolation for a few months to become veal. The unfortunate females calves follow their mother’s sad lot all the way to the last moments on the kill floor when they are no longer “productive”.
Adult humans do not need cow’s milk any more than they need goat’s milk, wolf’s milk, camel’s milk, giraffe’s milk. Unweaned infants do remarkably better on their own mother’s milk which is what our species was intended to consume. There’s absolutely nothing beneficial to the human diet in cow’s milk that can’t be gotten through plant based sources.
Thankfully there’s abundant plant based alternatives that are just as nutritional, just as satisfying and just as versatile in cooking. Some even have twice the amount of calcium and vitamin D as cow’s milk does.
Dairy is also destructive to the environment and a tragic waste of resources. Perhaps it is time for “unweaned” adults to look beyond what deceptiveness and hype the dairy industry is pitching at you in order to keep their profits and their cruel practices in check.
The meat/dairy/egg industries spends hundreds of millions of dollars lying to the public about their product. But no amount of false propaganda can sanitize meat. The facts are absolutely clear: Eating meat is bad for human health, catastrophic for the environment, and a living nightmare for animals. There’s never been more compelling reasons or a better time to opt for a plant based diet.
Want to create a better world? Eat like you mean it – Go Vegan
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