Carton of Cruelty
A Meat and Dairy Industries Article from All-Creatures.org

FROM

COK Compassion Over Killing
May 2017

DFA’s customers include Kraft Heinz, Chobani, and Leprino Foods, which is the largest mozzarella cheese maker in the world, supplying top pizza chains Papa John’s, Little Caesars, Domino’s and Pizza Hut.

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In a heartbreaking new undercover video, Compassion Over Killing reveals violent abuse of gentle mother cows at Mason Dixon Farms, a massive dairy factory farm in Pennsylvania with more than 2,500 animals.

Mason Dixon supplies some of the biggest names in dairy, including Dairy Farmers of America and Land O’Lakes. (See below for more detail.)

One of the largest dairy facilities on the East Coast, Mason Dixon was the first in the US to implement milking of cows by machines, known as “robo-milking.” Approximately half of the 2,500 cows on this factory farm are now “robo-milked.”

Watch the video here.

Though Mason Dixon touts itself as a leading example in the dairy industry, the footage taken by COK’s investigator who worked inside the facility uncovers a different reality that includes:

  • egregious cruelty to animals: including cows being kicked in the face, punched in their sensitive udders, excessively shocked with an electric prod, jabbed with a pens andor elbows, and having their tails twisted or bent by workers
  • cows living in hazardous conditions, routinely getting stuck on water troughs or inside stalls
  • worker safety concerns: workers handling formaldehyde throughout the facility with no protective clothing or masks.

dairy cow cruelty

cow and calves

COK submitted evidence of animal cruelty to local authorities, calling for prompt enforcement action. According to Dairy Farmers of America, which Mason Dixon supplies, Mason Dixon has fired one employee in response to the acts of animal cruelty documented in this footage.

Major Milk Money

Mason Dixon Farms supplies milk to Land O’Lakes as well as Dairy Farmers of America (DFA), the nation’s largest milk marketing cooperative.

DFA’s customers include Kraft Heinz, Chobani, and Leprino Foods, which is the largest mozzarella cheese maker in the world, supplying top pizza chains Papa John’s, Little Caesars, Domino’s and Pizza Hut.

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