Tuesday, July 15, 2008

Louder Than Words

This picture breaks my heart.

Its from an investigation done by the Humane Society. What did they find? Sick and injured animals being horrifically abused.

Details of the new undercover HSUS investigation include:
• Downed cows repeatedly shocked in an attempt to get them to rise
• Calves and cows with broken legs and laminitis
• A downed cow being dragged by a chain around one leg, pulled by a Bobcat tractor, with the animal's leg severely hyper-extended
• A calf being kicked repeatedly in the head
• A blind cow being shocked and struck and other cows with serious and grotesque eye injuries/diseases
• A downed cow forced to crawl on her front knees by workers who repeatedly shocked her.

As pictures - and videos - speak louder than words I urge everybody to please click here:
And then take action online by asking the USDA to close the loophole that allows "downers," or animals who can't walk, to be slaughtered for the food supply--and to apply the downer ban to haulers, stockyards, and auctions as well as slaughter plants.
No animal should have to crawl to its death.
I'm so enraged and sickened and heart broken seeing this. I don't understand how someone could even do this to a living creature.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

This is very VERY sickening. I just think that is very unnecessary treatment of these poor scared animals. I hope that this place was shut down!