"A dairy farm in Birnamwood, Wisconsin is under fire after video captured by a private investigator showed the farm’s employees abusing dairy cows. The animal rights group, Mercy for Animals, filmed the undercover video, which shows workers kicking and punching cows, spraying the animals in the face with high-pressure water hoses and cutting off their tails with blunt pruning shears.
The abuses conducted on the Andrus Dairy Farm are not isolated incidents. Mistreatment of animals on dairy farms across the country is quickly becoming a pandemic. In September 2014 a dairy farm in New Mexico, also investigated by Mercy for Animals, was shut down after video footage revealed workers electrocuting cows. And, another farm in upstate New York was also reprimanded after its employees were shown on hidden camera injecting cows with bovine growth hormones, and leaving sick cows to die in cramped iron cages.
With no legal action being taken against the employees at the Andrus Dairy Farm, the work of Mercy for Animals would be in vain. Urge District Attorney Scott Niemi to take the allegations of abuse seriously, and to convict the employees involved in ill-treating the dairy cows."
source: forcechange.com
