Target: Adam H. Putnam, Commissioner of the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services
Goal: Call for the closure of a farm where cows were allegedly beaten with rods and kicked in the head.
An undercover video taken at a Florida dairy farm appears to show multiple cows getting kicked in the head and struck with rebar wielded by farm employees. In the disturbing footage, the animals at Larson Dairy appear to be hit multiple times as they are forced into cramped milking stalls. Other cows in the video appear to be too weak to stand on their own power. We must demand justice for these innocent animals.
According to the narrator on the video, the footage shows that “dairy supervisors and milkers beat, stab and torment dairy cows with steel construction rebar,” and that “the sharp metal rods pierce and penetrate the cows’ bodies.” If these allegations are found to be true, this farm must be prevented from continuing its operations.
Reports of similar abuse are sadly all too common in the dairy industry. If these animals are to have any hope for a brighter future, we must take a stand and demand that the authorities overseeing this industry take action. Sign this petition to demand that Larson Dairy be shut down immediately if these allegations are proven to be true.
PETITION LETTER:
Dear Commissioner Putnam,
A number of cows appear to have been maliciously beaten as shown on an undercover video taken at a farm in Okeechobee County. The footage allegedly shows farm workers at Larson Dairy kicking cows in the head and beating them with metal rods to force them into their milking stalls. If these allegations are true, this farm must not be allowed to continue its abusive practices.
Similar cases of abuse are known to occur far too often in the dairy industry, and in far too many cases the perpetrators go unpunished. We urge you to take a stand for these innocent creatures. Please ensure that a full investigation of this farm takes place and that it is shut down if any of these allegations are found to be true.
Sincerely,
[Your Name Here]
Photo Credit: Keith Weller/United States Department of Agriculture
Animals have feelings! You just can’t mistreat them and get away with it! How would you like to be kicked and beaten with metal rods? These animals are abused enough by using them for food that you don’t really need to live! Fire and lock up the abusive workers immediately!
No wonder the animal industry doesn’t want cameras around showing the abuse the workers inflict on these poor defenseless animals! There’s no excuse for treating ANY animal this way! THIS HAS GOT TO STOP!!!
I would love to beat the shit out of these fecking so called ‘men’ who can inflict such harm on a gentle being. How dare they. They are scum on this earth and should be obliterated they don’t deserve to breathe. Bloody cowardly and atrocious. Probably weak men with small genitals and for some reason this makes them feel big, well you look stupid and are vermin! Please someone give them a taste of what they have dished out!
The world is overpopulated enough – get rid of these a**holes, but first do exactly to them what they’ve done ANY animals. One day boys, you’ll have to answer for your actions so if you get away with it on earth, good luck in the afterlife – you can’t prove it doesn’t exist!
how true they’ll get theirs in the end
EVIL SADISTIC BASTARDS, I HOPE SOMEONE WILL BEAT THE SHIT OUT OF THESE SICK COWARDS , KARMA!!!
This is what happens when consumers want cheap meat, egs and milk products – animal factories where corporations take over and hire cheap labor, often those with no hope of other employment. There is no “farmer”, fresh air, or accountability left in the picture. And people are surprised.
Try “voting with your wallet”. Stop consuming/purchasing milk. If no one buys milk, there will be no need for these huge inhumane dairy “operations”. No more images of cows being mistreated or the “excess” calves being kept in cramped stalls long enough to yield a few more $$$ for veal. Babies might need milk, no one else does. Every gallon of milk purchased perpetuates this inhumane treatment & funds cruelty. There are many nutritious alternatives to cows’ milk.
Thats a great idea!!! Lets boycot milk!!!!! Use almond, soy or other alternative.
All animals deserve human kindness. Animals were placed on this planet to live peacefully and injoy earth, just as humans do. Gods intentions should not be allowed to be destroyed by cowards.
Give me a half hour in a room with all these scum. If they survive what I would do to them, lock them up to rot.
what do you if it’s true it’s on video for god’s sake put the bastards in jail and hire people who love and are kind not these filthy creeps
Not only should these employees be in jail but so should the Larson brothers!! No excuse that these owners supposingly didn’t know about this abuse!!@ Baloney!!
I want to know who Larson Dairy supplies – it is fast food restaurants, particular brands of milk, what grocery stores the we need to demand those places no longer accept milk from this Dairy. These are sorry people. Only scum of the earth would do something like this and only scum of the earth would employ low life people not good for anything else in life.
I TOTALLY AGREED WITH YOU LORI STOKES!! STOP SUPPORTING THEM! STOP BUYING THEIR PRODUCTS !!! SINFUL EVIL HUMAN BEINGS!! SHAME ON ALL OF THEM!! BAD KARMA WILL HUNT ALL OF THEM WHOLE LIFE!! THATS FOR SURE !!!
This sort of unacceptable behaviour cannot be allowed to go on!This whole set up- Larson dairy that is- sounds badly run by none-caring brutes who should be sacked and severely punished. In fact the whole business ought to be shut down or taken over by humane and responsible staff. I trust these mindless yobs will receive what they richly deserve- punishing fines, the sack and a spell in confinement.
This is wide spread torture and abuse of animals. A global epidemic. Growing up near farming communities the news of cruelty outweigh the good. People who do this to animals hang around children, are part of communities, they are a sickness. The farming industry is a stain on humanity and must be stopped!
It is time to crush the farming communities, they answer to no one, as bad if not worse than the pharma industry, big money at all costs. Time to go vegan!
All factory farms are hell on this planet. Just like fur farms, laboratories and circuses.
NO LIVING BEING DESERVES SUCH A TORTUROUS EXISTENCE, FORCED TO ENDURE THE MOST EXTREME CRUELTY AND UNIMAGINABLE TORMENT FROM THE MOMENT THEY ARE BORN UNTIL THE DAY THEY ARE BRUTALLY SLAUGHTERED, COWS, PIGS, CHICKENS, DUCKS, GEESE, SHEEPS, GOATS, AND THEIR BABIES ARE FARMED IMPRISONED ALL THEIR LIVES WITN NO PROTECTION FROM EXTREME MISERY AND ABUSE, ALWAYS INFRONT OF OTHER ANIMALS THEY´RE BEATEN, HUNG, ELECTROCUTED, OR SKINNED. WE NEED TO STRENGTHEN OUR ABYSMAL AND OUTDATED ANIMAL WELFARE LAWS AND PERMANENTLY BAN THIS CRUELTY IN ALL THE WORLD. WE NEED TO STAND STRONG AND RESOLUTE AGAINST THIS BARBARIC INDUSTRY.
Shut this farm up and beat this fuckers up what’s wrong with the owner. Beat the fuck out of them kick them in head.
I HOPE THESE COWS TRAMPLE OVER THESE COWARDS UNTIL THEY ARE SEVERELY INJURED.
Make it compulsory to have cameras in the stalls!
If they aren’t doing anything wrong then they have nothing to worry about.