Meanwhile, the Pittsburgh-based Giant Eagle grocery chain said Atlantic had assured it the farm's current practices were "within industry guidelines" and it had no plans of discontinuing the sale of veal says the Associated Press.
While Mercy For Animals (MFA) uncovered similar atrocities at two dairies this year, Locke, NY-based Willet Dairy (which ran on Nightline) and Plain City, OH-based Conklin Dairy Farm, results are often whitewashed as soon as they surface.
http://www.mercyforanimals.org/dairy/
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Video from Conklin shows cows stabbed with pitchforks, beaten in the face with crowbars and their tails twisted until bones break. 150 police officers had to be stationed at the dairy during the Memorial Day weekend because the public was so outraged and the Ohio Veterinary Medical Association, Union County Sheriff Rocky Nelson and Dr. Temple Grandin, associate professor of livestock behavior at Colorado State University said, all condemned the acts.
But in July, Union County prosecuting attorney David Phillips said no charges would be filed against Conklin owner, Gary Conklin because "in context, Mr. Conklin's actions were entirely appropriate." Worse, Phillips says MFA, whose undercover investigator shot the video, "allowed the abuse to continue unreported and the animals to suffer." Not the Conklin employee, Billy Joe Gregg, who worked alongside the owner until the Mercy for Animal investigation.
Gregg remains incarcerated and is expected to plead guilty to misdemeanor counts of animal cruelty this month.
A Farm and Dairy editorial about the Conklin investigation in June also accuses MFA of allowing the abuse to continue, even suggesting that Gregg might be "paid" by MFA and "a supporter."
While Big Meat should make up its mind up whether animal advocates staged or allowed the cruelty -- you can't have both -- there is a larger question:
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