After receiving a disturbing tip, PETA obtained shocking video footage of cows forced to live in their own corrosive, bacteria-laden waste—while walking to and from the milking parlor, while eating, and while sleeping, with no grass, straw or bedding to lie down on to rest. The cows—whose sensitive noses can smell odors up to 6 miles away—cannot escape the stench of the waste or the flies that swarm around them. The manure splashes onto cows’ udders moments before they are milked. It is caked on their limbs, and it is virtually impossible to clean cows’ flanks and udders before milking, which creates a serious food safety threat. All this—and the serious, painful infections of cows’ skin and hooves that have resulted—is because the dairy’s waste pit has not been emptied for so long that the manure in it has hardened.
Posted on: Fri, 15 Aug 2014 23:52:31 +0000
Trending Topics
Recently Viewed Topics
© 2015