Animal Abuse on Dairy Farm

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.

Click here to view this investigation page.

Click here to read the Metro-cleveland.com media story.

Click here to read the Columbus Dispatch coverage.

The worker arrested is Billy Joe Gregg Jr:

with the following media release [click here]

Here's more you can do:

Call Conklin Farm 614-873-8024
Call Sherriff Nelson who is involved in the prosecution process 937-645-4102
Sign this petition which is going to the Government of Ohio.

Some very recent progress that has been made involves the State of Ohio updating its animal cruelty laws as a result of the Conklin farm brutality as well as the beating of the Alpaca [see media]. According to sources the relevant changes are as follows:

In regards to cruelty to animals other than companion animals, H.B. 55 adds a new penalty provision. The penalty remains a second degree misdemeanor for first offenses, but increases to a first degree misdemeanor for subsequent violations of the law. Current law addresses each offense as a second degree misdemeanor. Under Ohio law, a first degree misdemeanor can result in a maximum penalty of 180 days in jail and a $1,000 fine, while a second degree misdemeanor violation carries a maximum of 90 days in jail and a $750 fine.

House Passes Revisions to Ohio's Animal Cruelty Laws