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
What scares me, is that, if they beat on A Cow at Work. What do they do at home?
Beat on their spouses and/or children?
thats what scares you?! smdh.
Don’t people get it God put cows and things like that for us a blessing why do people got to be so darn mean
We have to be their voice and stop this abuse
save the cows shut them down
Somebody has to stop this
I cannot tolerate animal abuse!!!
So wrong.
This is horrible!
This is unnaceptable!! Should be shut down immediately!! Please stop this barbaric abuse!
God did not give us permission to hurt animals they all have a job the main one is to supply us with milk to make strong minds and bones To survive. Remember that always Love Not Hate Animals Have Feelings Also. God Bless And Protect The Animals.
Please shut this farm down. No living being should ever have to experience this kind of abuse. These people should not be allowed to own animals of any kind or work with them. This is horrendous abuse!
Horrific. Please make it stop!!! God help us. ???
Abuse is unacceptable! Cows are sweet animals and anyone abusing them or ANY animal needs to be punished!
Stop the abuse.
Thus behaviouris totally disgusting is is unacceptable. Those harming these dairy cows should be arrested & prosecuted!! The owner should be held accountable as?well with fines & possible closure of this farm!!!
Thus behaviouris totally disgusting is unacceptable. Those harming these dairy cows should be arrested & prosecuted!! The owner should be held accountable as well with fines & possible closure of this farm!!!
Terrible
This is never ok! I also believe in karma! Watch out abusers your day will come.
I am so digusted with people like this that are cruel to animals you are some sick people
This is heart wrenching. What the heck is wrong with these sickos? Animals, both large and small, share the same emotions and pain that we do.
Why is there so much cruelty being done on the animal world. Every day there are so. MAny cases of cruelty on animals. They should be treated with kindness no matter what kind of animal. People today have no compassion for anything. What ashame