While the video shot undercover is graphic, traumatizing and evil, I suggest that every lover of animals watch as much of it as they can possibly bear, not to make you vomit but to show what really goes on at these places that supply dairy products to stores. Fair Oaks is a flagship dairy supplier for Fairlife, which was launched by Coca-Cola and Select Milk Producers, a co-op of dairy farms operated by Mike and Sue McCloskey, the couple also owns Fair Oaks Farms.
An investigator from Animal Recovery Mission, a Miami Beach Florida based advocacy group conducted an undercover investigation of Fair Oaks Farms from August through November of 2018. The undercover video shot by the investigator is heinous, I don’t know of a strong enough word to describe the level of animal abuse, torture more adequately describes it. Newborn calves ripped from their mothers and as the mother cows watch, their babies are picked up and thrown, choked, stabbed, struck by workers with their hands and with steel rods, burnt with branding irons and kicked in their heads and tiny bodies! The bodies of other calves are piled into the dirt most likely having died from the unspeakable abuse they suffered at the hands of those that were paid to correctly take care of them. The mother cows witnessing the hideous abuse to their babies can be heard moaning and crying continuously until they become hoarse.
Now pay close attention to this….. three former employees have been charged with a single felony count each of torturing or mutilating an animal and single misdemeanor counts of cruelty to an animal, according to charging documents released Tuesday. The three are said to be (again, pay close attention and tell me what jumps out at you immediately), Santiago Ruvalcaba Contreros, 31; Edgar Gardozo Vazquez, 36; and Miguel Angel Navarro Serrano, 38. The Sheriffs office does not have these men in custody yet as they say that they have been unable to locate them! Could it be that these torturing, abusive, pieces of trash criminals have snaked over the border and are not even legal? Regardless, this is a prime example of the garbage that blows into this country and has zero respect for this land, any citizen living here or any other form of life, they need to go, AFTER being punished to the full extent of the law! Better yet, in cases like this one the same torture that each has inflicted upon every animal that they came in contact with, should be inflicted upon them tenfold! They are less than human, the animals lives are of more value than these torturing, cruel, maiming, good for absolutely nothing scum of the earth bullies.
Not for one minute do I believe that Fair Oaks Farms Owners Mike and Sue McCloskey were completely unaware of the torture being inflicted upon those poor animals daily. They should be held accountable, as should every last one of their affiliates. The Coca Cola Company included, everyone that sells, partners with, invests in, or even buys ANY of their products is part of the problem. To give ANY business to any of them is to condone the vicious animal abuse, neglect and torture, the best way to make a stand and start making a difference is to boycott every one of Fair Oaks Farms, Fairlife Farms and The Coca-Cola Company products, if everyone sticks together and takes a stand then believe me true changes will be made, the consumer is every company’s bread and butter and when they have had enough the companies involved feel it in their wallets and suddenly give a damn.
Imagine what those mother cows must have felt, and yes animals do have feelings, look at the cow that escaped from the truck when it was delivered to the slaughterhouse, it threw itself into a nearby lake and swam out to an island because it didn’t want to die any more than a human would! Some of those mother cows had just given birth to their calves only to have them ripped away from them and right before their very eyes they see them picked up into the air and THROWN into small isolation huts, calves being drug by their EARS, smashing calves with milk bottles, kicking them, beating them with branding irons and steel rebar, force feeding them until they literally can’t breathe, choking the calves, burning them, violently kicking them in their little skulls and stabbing them! It comes as no surprise that adult cows are mercilessly abused and mistreated as well, any scum of the earth that would abuse baby animals would definitely abuse any and all other animals of all ages!
Tragically in many dairies, just like in the slaughterhouses across the country where animals are killed to fill the gullets of the public, animals are treated as inanimate THINGS without feelings, emotions, incapable of feeling pain, just “things”. These businesses get what they want from the animals all in the name of the almighty dollar and nothing else matters but their greed. Isn’t it easy for the people in charge of these places, along with their “affiliates” to turn their heads and pretend that they know nothing about what’s going on in their businesses. I’m sure that The Coca-Cola Company didn’t form any kind of partnership with Fair Oaks Farms without touring their dairies too. Since it’s been reported that these cows and calves were kept in the most filthy conditions it would have been difficult to conceal the filthy environment.
If you love animals, truly love and respect them then don’t give Fair Oaks Farms, Fairlife Farms, or The Coca-Cola Company any of your business, spend your hard earned money on products that come from clean, humane dairies, don’t be part of the problem and instead be part of the solution by boycotting these places and all of their products. Make all of your friends aware too so that they will do the same and together we can all make a huge difference and stop the torturous abuse and killings. I thank you and know that if these animals had a voice, they would thank you too.
*******PLEASE NOTE: A friend of mine posted a comment on her Facebook page after seeing the undercover video of the abuse talked about above. She stated how disgusting the abuse was and that she would not buy any Fairlife products, Fair Oaks Products and was through with Coca Cola and all of their MANY affiliates products, she encouraged all of her friends to do the same. Next thing she knew ( disturbingly quickly ) she was a prisoner of what we have all come to know as “Facebook Jail”! Perhaps one or more of these companies support Facebook or advertise there but it’s pretty bad that Facebook is now trying to hamper freedom of speech ESPECIALLY when it comes to torturing, neglecting, maiming and killing animals, shame on Facebook! It would appear that they condone this behavior and dislike the animal lovers taking a stand on their supposedly own Facebook pages! Beware!
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