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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!
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We signed the “Baby Calves Stolen From Their Mothers and Treated Cruelly - Free Baby Mendes!” petition!
# 150:
11:14 am PDT, Sep 17,
Tim Gasperoni, Massachusetts
# 149:
11:14 am PDT, Sep 17,
Jen Davis, New York
# 148:
11:14 am PDT, Sep 17,
Debe Wenig, Ohio
What a horrible practice. I want nothing to do with companies that would allow this abuse.
What a horrible practice. I want nothing to do with companies that would allow this abuse.
# 147:
11:14 am PDT, Sep 17,
Linda A. LaCroix, Vermont
# 146:
11:14 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, Massachusetts
# 145:
11:14 am PDT, Sep 17,
Mark Lungo, Ohio
# 144:
11:14 am PDT, Sep 17,
Audrey Pavia, California
# 143:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Barbara Stewart Nelson, Florida
# 142:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Linda Harrigan, Indiana
I am ashamed that Land of Lakes would stoop to supporting such practices.
I am ashamed that Land of Lakes would stoop to supporting such practices.
# 141:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Debbie Weinberg, Pennsylvania
# 140:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Lynn Coffey-edelman, New York
# 139:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Nancy Dix, California
I will boycott your products and urge everyone I know to do so. These practices are barbaric, inhumane and completely unnecessary. Frankly, they should be outlawed. No decent company would even contemplate such practices. You deserve to be put out of business and I will do everything I can to help that result.
I will boycott your products and urge everyone I know to do so. These practices are barbaric, inhumane and completely unnecessary. Frankly, they should be outlawed. No decent company would even contemplate such practices. You deserve to be put out of business and I will do everything I can to help that result.
# 138:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Robin Rupe, New Mexico
# 137:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Nicole Brown, Florida
I will not be buying any of your products as long as they come from Mendes.
I will not be buying any of your products as long as they come from Mendes.
# 136:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Sarah De Sousa, Texas
# 135:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Shana Honeyman, California
I refuse to buy your products until this cruelty is stopped!
I refuse to buy your products until this cruelty is stopped!
# 134:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Colleen Ausan, Colorado
I can't believe this practice is still used in the dairy or beef industry. It has become MORE THAN common knowledge that free-range animals produce better products. The less stressed an animal is throughout its life, the better the end result. You would think huge companies like Land O' Lakes would put quality before anything else. I will boycott both Challenge and Land O' Lakes from here on out until I hear that they have stopped using products from HELL'S FARM!
I can't believe this practice is still used in the dairy or beef industry. It has become MORE THAN common knowledge that free-range animals produce better products. The less stressed an animal is throughout its life, the better the end result. You would think huge companies like Land O' Lakes would put quality before anything else. I will boycott both Challenge and Land O' Lakes from here on out until I hear that they have stopped using products from HELL'S FARM!
# 133:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
MARLENE NORMAN, Washington
# 132:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Marin Thompson, California
# 131:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Rob Baker, Illinois
Please stop this cruelty!!
Please stop this cruelty!!
# 130:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Renata Yacucci, Delaware
# 129:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, New York
# 128:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Scotia Brosnan, California
I refuse to no longer purhcase Land O Lakes and Challenge dairy products. Please end the cruelty.
I refuse to no longer purhcase Land O Lakes and Challenge dairy products. Please end the cruelty.
# 127:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
TAZ D. BEACHER-KELLY, Pennsylvania
# 126:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Susan Sinkiewicz, Indiana
# 125:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Heather Doty, Michigan
# 124:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Kyle Gerhart, Pennsylvania
# 123:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, Maryland
This is appauling and unacceptable!
This is appauling and unacceptable!
# 122:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Jill Gilberti, Ohio
# 121:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Nicole Milan, California
Inhumane treatment of animals is a disgrace. I am continually astonished at the lack of concern for animals that happens every day.
Inhumane treatment of animals is a disgrace. I am continually astonished at the lack of concern for animals that happens every day.
# 120:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Michelle Feyers, Michigan
It is unbelievable that humans act this way
It is unbelievable that humans act this way
# 119:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Sal Passarella, New Jersey
It is despicable that any animal is treated this way. It is doubly disgusting that such gentle animals who give up their milk to us,are treated thus. Stop it now!
It is despicable that any animal is treated this way. It is doubly disgusting that such gentle animals who give up their milk to us,are treated thus. Stop it now!
# 118:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Dennis Rogers, Massachusetts
# 117:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Anna Koncz, Michigan
# 116:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, Wisconsin
# 115:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Kathy Penn, Maryland
# 114:
11:13 am PDT, Sep 17,
Terri Muuss, New York
# 113:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, California
Remember-we are all citizens of the planet Earth-including calves. These innocent creatures should not be treated in this manner. It isn't fair. These farms should be ashamed of and reprimanded for the way they treat these animals and these dairy companies she punished for using these farms. Please make this stop. Thank you.
Remember-we are all citizens of the planet Earth-including calves. These innocent creatures should not be treated in this manner. It isn't fair. These farms should be ashamed of and reprimanded for the way they treat these animals and these dairy companies she punished for using these farms. Please make this stop. Thank you.
# 112:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Peter Branch, Oregon
# 111:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Karen M. Smith, New York
I will boycot LOL products.
I will boycot LOL products.
# 110:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Connie Schiffke, Iowa
this is something for our country to be ashamed about. child molesters have it better. they are the ones that deserve to be treated that way..
this is something for our country to be ashamed about. child molesters have it better. they are the ones that deserve to be treated that way..
# 109:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Andrea Kendall, Georgia
I will absolutely boycott your products until these horrible animal abuses stop. I also intend to tell as many people as possible about your practices.
I will absolutely boycott your products until these horrible animal abuses stop. I also intend to tell as many people as possible about your practices.
# 108:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Sonja Glavina, Iowa
# 107:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Emily L. Bachhuber, Minnesota
Land o'Lakes has a reputation of a good corporate citizen- do the right thing and end your support of this abuse.
Land o'Lakes has a reputation of a good corporate citizen- do the right thing and end your support of this abuse.
# 106:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Name not displayed, Florida
# 105:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Darlene Evans, Arizona
We need to stop this madness!! Poor babies, why are people so cruel? All for a buck or two? These animals need room to grow and move around and have a life!! STOP!!
We need to stop this madness!! Poor babies, why are people so cruel? All for a buck or two? These animals need room to grow and move around and have a life!! STOP!!
# 104:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Heather Berry, New York
# 103:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Jonathan Worcester, Florida
# 102:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Sherrill Cox, New Jersey
# 101:
11:12 am PDT, Sep 17,
Heather Wienker, Florida