Video: Mistreated cows at Maryland auction house
May 7, 2008
In a new video released by the Humane Society of the United States, the group shows graphic footage of the mistreatment of cows at livestock auctions and stockyards - including one in Maryland.
Over the last two months, HSUS investigators visited auctions in Maryland, New Mexico, Pennsylvania and Texas and videotaped downer cows at each stop. “Downer” cows are those too frail to stand on their own — they’re dragged and prodded, increasing the threat of carrying and passing disease. Some are still slaughtered for consumption.
Here’s what they turned up in Westminster:
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- HSUS investigators documented a downed cow abandoned outside of the auction barn, left to suffer through the night. HSUS investigators contacted agents with the Carroll County Humane Society. An officer quickly ended the cow’s suffering.
This HSUS investigation into downer cows follows the group’s January’s undercover video of animals being tortured at a plant in Chino, Calif. - a major supplier to the National School Lunch Program.
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