Source: http://www.mercyforanimals.org/ohdairy/

Chilling undercover footage recorded during a new Mercy For Animals
investigation exposes dairy farm workers sadistically abusing cows and
young calves.

Captured on hidden camera, the shocking scenes of abuse reveal a culture
of cruelty at Conklin Dairy Farms in Plain City, Ohio.

During a four-week investigation between April and May, MFA's
investigator documented farm workers:

• Violently punching young calves in the face, body slamming them to the ground, and pulling and throwing them by their ears
  
• Routinely using pitchforks to stab cows in the face, legs and stomach
  
• Kicking "downed" cows (those too injured to stand) in the face and neck – abuse carried out and encouraged by the farm's owner
  
• Maliciously beating restrained cows in the face with crowbars – some attacks involving over 40 blows to the head
  
• Twisting cows' tails until the bones snapped
• Punching cows' udders
• Bragging about stabbing, dragging, shooting, breaking bones, and beating cows and calves to death
  

After viewing the footage, Dr. Bernard Rollin, distinguished professor
of animal science at Colorado State University, stated: "This is
probably the most gratuitous, sustained, sadistic animal abuse I have
ever seen. The video depicts calculated, deliberate cruelty, based not
on momentary rage but on taking pleasure through causing pain to cows
and calves who are defenseless."

Immediately upon completion of the investigation, Mercy For Animals
contacted the City Prosecutor's Office of Marysville regarding the
ongoing pattern of abuse at Conklin Dairy Farms. MFA is pushing for
employees of the facility to be criminally prosecuted for violating
Ohio's animal cruelty laws.

The deplorable conditions uncovered at Conklin Dairy Farms highlight the
reality that animal agriculture is incapable of self-regulation and
that meaningful federal and state laws must be implemented and strengthened to
prevent egregious cruelty to farmed animals.

Although many of the abuses documented at Conklin Dairy Farms are
sadistic in nature, numerous MFA undercover investigations at dairy farms,
pig farms,
egg
farms, hatcheries and slaughterhouses
have revealed that violence and abuse to farmed animals – whether
malicious or institutionalized – runs rampant nationwide.

Compassionate consumers can end their direct financial support of farmed
animal abuse by rejecting dairy, and other animal products, and
adopting a vegan diet.