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Tell the USDA to Crack Down on Livestock Auction Cruelty
- Posted to Animals
To: US Department of Agriculture
Animal rights groups have revealed the startling extent of cruelty that goes on at livestock auctions across the nation. Mercy For Animals (MFA) recently conducted an undercover investigation into the inhumane treatment of animals at these houses and found “an ongoing pattern of cruelty,...
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Each year millions of American cows, pigs, chickens, goats, sheep and other animals who are raised, bought and sold for slaughter will travel from farms to livestock auctions. Mercy for Animals (MFA), an animal rights group, revealed that there are ongoing instances of “cruelty, egregious violence, and severe neglect at livestock auctions.” MFA recently captured an undercover footage from an Ontario Livestock house showing the workers “throwing, beating, stomping and kicking animals in the face and body.” Watch the heartbreaking video here (please note the images are graphic): http://www.mercyforanimals.org/auction/video.aspx
As the shocking hidden camera footage went viral, public outcry spurred an investigation by local law enforcement resulting in the arrest of seven of the offending employees. The auction's owner was charged with a total of 21 counts of animal cruelty. Sadly, this tragic case is not an isolated event - MFA claims that animal cruelty is commonplace at auction houses across the U.S.
These types of abuses include:
- The sale of "downed" animals – those too sick or injured to even stand or walk on their own – being left to slowly suffer and die without food, water or veterinary care. Downed animals are more likely to carry diseases that threaten public health if allowed to enter the human food supply.
- Sick, injured and dying animals being kicked, pushed and dragged into transport trucks to be sold and slaughtered for human consumption.
- Birds stuffed into bags and goats, sheep and other animals overcrowded into small pens, forcing animals to stand on and even trample each other.
Sign the petition demanding that the USDA take steps to end this cruelty. It is critical that the USDA crack down on the barbaric actions taking place at livestock auctions and enforce initiatives meant to prevent it.
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Update #1
Posted on Jun 26, 2012Thank you to the overwhelming number of you who have spoken out against the intolerable abuses that occur at livestock auctions nationwide.
A recent discovery of sick and starving horses at the Southwest Livestock Auction in New Mexico reminds us just how critical this fight for animal rights truly is. The auction owner, Danny Chavez, is now facing a bevy of criminal charges: four counts of animal cruelty, failing to treat an animal that can't walk, and lacking a bill of sale for the sickly...
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This makes me sick, how horrible do you have to be to do this to animals and have no feeling of guilt or anything! Gr.
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oh shhhushhh. those ants were in my computer what wud u have done lol
Could not continue watching...Those images will haunt me....The same think should be done to those people...
Necesitamos implementar un cambio de consciencia y darnos cuenta que cada creatura viviente siente, piensa y tiene emociones tal como nosotros tenemos. El que practica crueldad con los animales es un asesino potencial y talvez no solo potencial. Sergio Anastasio Prado-Arnuero
Quota. cuando escojas pareja escoge a alguien que sepa como percibir el sufrimiento detras de tu sonrisa, el amor detras de tu colera y la inteligencia detras de tu silencio
jamas deposites la llave de tu felicidad en el bolsillo de otra persona
There is no need for such depravity in this world! We are all sentient human beings and I am ASHAMED at the inHUMANane way individuals can treat animals. This torture has to stop NOW! In fact, it makes no sense-I can never understand why the auction house or the seller doesn't want top dollar for their livestock. Keeping the animal fed and healthy will increase the weight and increase the final winning bid!
Auction for slaughter...as long as people think it ok to eat meat n use animal products, animals will always be treated as property......People genuinely concerned about animals, Go Vegan....don't bother too much abt others making their change in their life...let the change start with u.....
I thought u have always been a vegetarian....
no wonder I cannot look at red meat...or eat it.....as sad as this is for the animals, it is also sad that people could be so inhumane, abusive and cowardly. Innocent, beautiful animals are our responsibility......
Watching that video made me feel sick, made me cry...and made me contemplate violence toward to those f**kers.
I think I want to go back to veganism...
Just replace the word animal and replace it with 'Baby', and everyone would be up in arms. Does the cruelty of these poor creatures disturb you at all? If so please do everything you can to help these poor creatures the same way you would treat your own child!
…sign petitions, write the government, volunteer at a local shelter, etc, and donate what ever little you can. And don't forget to 'The animal Rescue Site", with just once click as many times as you want daily will feed 1 meal per...
Just replace the word animal and replace it with 'Baby', and everyone would be up in arms. Does the cruelty of these poor creatures disturb you at all? If so please do everything you can to help these poor creatures the same way you would treat your own child!
sign petitions, write the government, volunteer at a local shelter, etc, and donate what ever little you can. And don't forget to 'The animal Rescue Site", with just once click as many times as you want daily will feed 1 meal per dog without any money from you, it comes from the advistisers. Click for a daily reminder so you won't for get. It help feed alot of animals who would go without and all it takes is a 30 second click from you. Please do, we all need brownie points in heaven, lord knows I do! How about you?
Why would anyone deliberately cause cruelty to any other animal or person.
I don't understand it either Kim
AGAIN--YOU ALL KNOW WHERE I STAND--DOn't THESE DUMB ARSE JERKS IN WASHINGTON KNOW THIS IS GOING ON? OF COURSE THEY DO--BUT THE SLAUGHTER HOUSES HAVE THEM IN THEIR BACK POCKETS--THOSE GREED Y BASTARDS--IM SICK AND TIRED OF PEOPLE ACTING LIKE THE CROOKS DOn't KNOW WHAT's GOING ON--THEY KNOW--JUST AS SURE AS THE SUN IS UP THERE--$$$$$$$ IS ALL THOSE CROOKS WANT--$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$ I WOULD SEND BRONSON IN AND BIM ALL THOSE LOW LIFES IN THE SLAUGHTER HOUSES AND GO BIM--THAT's ALL SHE WROTE--BIM--BIM BIM BIM--OH WELL YOU GET THE POINT.