Urgent: Stop Animal Abuse at Threemile Canyon Farms

[Guest guest]

Stop Animal Abuse at Threemile Canyon Farms

>

> Hello!

>

> I thought you might be interested in this United

Farm Workers

> e-activism campaign.

>

> A report prepared by the Humane Farming Association

(HFA)

> documents cruel and inhumane treatment of cows and

calves at

> Threemile Canyon Farms in Boardman, Ore., including

statements

> from workers. Months ago, HFA filed a formal

petition with

> Oregon Attorney General Hardy Myers formally

demanding criminal

> charges be brought against Threemile Canyon Farms

for animal

> abuse. Yet in spite of extensive documentation,

Myers has yet to

> take action. The extensive report documents

widespread animal

> abuse.

>

> The report documents how some of the male calves are

separated

> from their mothers at birth and left to starve to

death. A

> worker reports, " Supervisors usually shoot unwanted

male calves.

> They don't die right away. Some lie on the floor and

bleed out.

> Some have lied for three hours and are still alive. "

The dairy

> reportedly also kills calves by bashing their heads

in or by

> swinging the calf by its hind legs and pounding its

head against

> the concrete floor.

>

> The report also documents how workers are told to

slice off a

> section of a cow's teat without anesthetizing the

animal. The

> cows' teats are susceptible to infection due to the

concrete

> floors being covered with manure, urine and standing

flush

> water. To make matters worse, workers report the

massive farm

> continues to milk cows with infected teats,

something workers

> first reported in a February 2005 article in the

Portland

> Oregonian newspaper. One worker says " the blood and

pus draining

> from the teat will go into the milk when the cow is

milked. "

> Another worker states, " The boss tells us to milk

the cows even

> if they know the milk is bad. The milk will look

like pieces of

> cheese. "

>

> Yet in spite of worker statements, pictures and even

video that

> the Humane Farming Association provided to Attorney

General

> Myers, he has yet to take action to stop abuse at

Threemile. The

> fact the state of Oregon previously provided $20

million to

> Threemile makes the state's inaction even more

outrageous.

>

> The abuse has to stop now. Please join the United

Farm Workers

> in supporting the Humane Farming Association's call

to stop the

> cruelty at Threemile by demanding the Oregon

attorney general

> initiate criminal charges against Threemile.

>

> Send your e-mail TODAY! Go to:

>

http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/animalabuse?rk=f7ALeyE1FPIRW

>

> ***************************************

> Powered by GetActive Software, Inc.

> Member Relationship Management Solutions

> That Recruit, Engage, and Retain

> http://www.getactive.com

> ***************************************