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Baby Calves Stolen From Their Mothers and Treated Cruelly - Free Baby Mendes!
Target: Land O’Lakes and Challenge DairySponsored by: Animal Legal Defense Fund
Imagine a place where baby calves are taken from their mothers just hours after birth and shipped away to live in cramped, filthy crates with barely enough room to move.
This shocking scenario is a sad reality for the young calves at Mendes Calf Ranch in Tipton, California.
Calves live by themselves in crates so small they can’t even turn around or lie down naturally. They have to contort their bodies simply to move around in the small space, which is often covered with their own excrement.
Land O’Lakes and Challenge Dairy are two of the major dairy producers who use milk from cows who were confined at Mendes Calf Ranch. But you can help Free Baby Mendes – and the up to 12,000 other calves that Mendes confines every day of the year.
These practices are unnecessary, unacceptable and a violation of state animal cruelty laws!
Alert Land O’Lakes and Challenge Dairy about what is going on at Mendes Calf Ranch — and tell them consumers won’t tolerate such animal cruelty!
Sign Petition! see who signed this
We signed the “Baby Calves Stolen From Their Mothers and Treated Cruelly - Free Baby Mendes!” petition!
# 50:
11:10 am PDT, Sep 17,
Mark Trifeletti, New York
# 49:
11:10 am PDT, Sep 17,
Patricia Casey, Florida
Please take action to end animal suffering. Consumers will no longer tolerate animal abuse.
Please take action to end animal suffering. Consumers will no longer tolerate animal abuse.
# 48:
11:10 am PDT, Sep 17,
Kathleen Cuvelier, New York
Now is the time for us all to stand up and declare our compassion and humanity. Do not accept dairy products from calves raised at Mendes.
Now is the time for us all to stand up and declare our compassion and humanity. Do not accept dairy products from calves raised at Mendes.
# 47:
11:10 am PDT, Sep 17,
BobbyKat LittleCub, Illinois
# 46:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Kira Radtke, Louisiana
# 45:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Che Vaughn, Georgia
# 44:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Chris Petrakis, California
# 43:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Dawn Hix, Mississippi
This is a horrible practice and they should be ashamed.
This is a horrible practice and they should be ashamed.
# 42:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, California
# 41:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Karen Jackson, California
This is disgusting!! Clean up your act.
This is disgusting!! Clean up your act.
# 40:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Sarah Oneal, California
# 39:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Quilla Miralia, Florida
Cruelty is bad for business. There is always someone willing to do something better, and I will spend my money on them.
Cruelty is bad for business. There is always someone willing to do something better, and I will spend my money on them.
# 38:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Jaime Couch, Pennsylvania
Stop animal abuse. I will not buy any dairy products from animals raised at Mendes.
Stop animal abuse. I will not buy any dairy products from animals raised at Mendes.
# 37:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Leslie Hansen, Utah
What is wrong with you people that we even have to tell you how inhumane this is. Does the almighty dollar really mean this much?
What is wrong with you people that we even have to tell you how inhumane this is. Does the almighty dollar really mean this much?
# 36:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Joan Ramsey, California
# 35:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Allyn Boucher, Alabama
# 34:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, California
# 33:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Stephanie Kirk, Missouri
People are fed up with these barbaric practices - the tide is turning and you will be left behind. So shape up for your own benefit and for that of other sentient beings
People are fed up with these barbaric practices - the tide is turning and you will be left behind. So shape up for your own benefit and for that of other sentient beings
# 32:
11:09 am PDT, Sep 17,
Shelley Marlow, New York
# 31:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
Emily Star Hoard, Virginia
# 30:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
Anita Caltabiano, New York
# 29:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
Alexis Ben, California
# 28:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
MARTHA RUBIANO, New Jersey
# 27:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
Denise Marques, Colorado
# 26:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
Sylvia Nibley, Utah
# 25:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
Tiffany Rushton, Georgia
# 24:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
Gilda Reed, Louisiana
# 23:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
Lou L. Hanks, Virginia
This kind of treatment to animals is totally unacceptable and unnecessary. It needs to stop!!
This kind of treatment to animals is totally unacceptable and unnecessary. It needs to stop!!
# 22:
11:08 am PDT, Sep 17,
Arlene Sphikas, New York
These conditions are disgusting. you should be confined instead.
These conditions are disgusting. you should be confined instead.
# 21:
11:07 am PDT, Sep 17,
MICHAEL L KELLY, Michigan
# 20:
11:07 am PDT, Sep 17,
Annette C. Escobar, Florida
This conduct and treatment is deplorable.
This conduct and treatment is deplorable.
# 19:
11:07 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, Georgia
# 18:
11:07 am PDT, Sep 17,
Michael Souza, California
I have been a consumer of your products, but will no longer do so if you continue to use Mendes Calf Ranch or they amend their practices.
I have been a consumer of your products, but will no longer do so if you continue to use Mendes Calf Ranch or they amend their practices.
# 17:
11:07 am PDT, Sep 17,
Laurie Brown, California
# 16:
11:07 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, New Jersey
# 15:
11:06 am PDT, Sep 17,
ERIN SMITH, New Jersey
# 14:
11:06 am PDT, Sep 17,
Bill Wintrode, Arizona
# 13:
11:06 am PDT, Sep 17,
Susan Kendall, New York
This a longtime practice to make the veal tender-crates so small the calves can't even move around. It prevents them developing muscles. The solution? Give up veal! I haven't eaten it in over 15 yr.
This a longtime practice to make the veal tender-crates so small the calves can't even move around. It prevents them developing muscles. The solution? Give up veal! I haven't eaten it in over 15 yr.
# 12:
11:06 am PDT, Sep 17,
Nathan Buck, Oregon
# 11:
11:06 am PDT, Sep 17,
Khrabrovitsky Rita, California
# 10:
11:06 am PDT, Sep 17,
Roxanne Smith, Michigan
# 9:
11:06 am PDT, Sep 17,
Rhonda Thomson, Texas
# 8:
11:06 am PDT, Sep 17,
Jennie Winter, California
# 7:
11:05 am PDT, Sep 17,
Eileen Darcy, New York
# 6:
11:03 am PDT, Sep 17,
Panagiotis Rigopoulos, Greece
# 5:
11:01 am PDT, Sep 17,
Brianna Fritchey, South Carolina
# 4:
10:57 am PDT, Sep 17,
Nancy Watts, Texas
# 3:
6:53 am PDT, Sep 17,
Carol Herdman, Pennsylvania
# 2:
6:42 am PDT, Sep 17,
Irene Altman, New Jersey
Free range animals are healthier and produce better products. This is secondary to the fact that we are here as protectors and preservers of nature's wonders; not their destroyers. We have no right to make a weaker species suffer.
Free range animals are healthier and produce better products. This is secondary to the fact that we are here as protectors and preservers of nature's wonders; not their destroyers. We have no right to make a weaker species suffer.
# 1:
8:37 am PDT, Sep 13,
Robyn Erler, California