Chilling undercover footage recorded during a new Mercy For Animals investigation exposes dairy farm workers sadistically abusing cows and young calves.

Captured on hidden camera, the shocking scenes of abuse reveal a culture of cruelty at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, Ohio.

During a four-week investigation between April and May, MFA’s investigator documented farm workers:

* Violently punching young calves in the face, body slamming them to the ground, and pulling and throwing them by their ears

* Routinely using pitchforks to stab cows in the face, legs and stomach

* Kicking “downed” cows (those too injured to stand) in the face and neck – abuse carried out and encouraged by the farm’s owner

* Maliciously beating restrained cows in the face with crowbars – some attacks involving over 40 blows to the head

* Twisting cows’ tails until the bones snapped

* Punching cows’ udders

* Bragging about stabbing, dragging, shooting, breaking bones, and beating cows and calves to death

Check out MERCY FOR ANIMALS for more information on the footage!

“When a slave was drunk, the slaveholder had no fear that he would plan an insurrection…. It was the sober, thinking slave who was dangerous, and needed the vigilance of his master to keep him a slave.” -Frederick Douglas

I stumbled upon this Frederick Douglas quote yesterday and knew it was too good not to share with you all. This quote is a personal one for me, being that I have been straight edge for 12 years and wanting to be a sober thinking / acting individual being one of the many reasons of being straight edge.

Out of all the punks I grew up with pre high school and all the way through high school, I was the only straight edge one. I have witnessed how alcohol and drugs can pacify people. I have seen friends care about certain issues enough to counter and organize against them, and then slowly..not care. Drink after drink, party after party, bong hit after bong hit, their activist drive disappears. Even when I showed them what was happening to them, they couldn’t ( or didn’t want to ) realize it. It’s really interesting to know that these situations have been going on since the african slave trade. Please don’t let this happen to you or your community.

This blog wasn’t intended to cram straight edge down your throat, i promise. My main goal for this post was just to make you think. Do you agree that alcohol and drugs can pacify an individual?  Do you agree that you need a sober head and body to actively stand up and fight injustice when you see it?

Let me know your thoughts

XXX

-vT!