COK Investigation Reveals Shocking Abuse to Calves
Criminal Charges Filed against 3 Alleged Animal Abusers at Quanah Cattle Company! ● Nov. 15 Case Updates: COK applauds the Weld County Sheriff’s Office for filing criminal charges of cruelty to animals against three alleged animal abusers at Quanah Cattle Co., demonstrating that it’s taking our evidence of abuse very seriously. For the sake of these calves, as well as other farmed animals, we hope justice will swiftly be served. Quanah Cattle Co. has also announced that it has fired the three individuals who our undercover investigator caught on film mistreating these animals.
In 2013, a COK undercover investigator worked inside Quanah Cattle Co. (QCC), an animal agribusiness company in Kersey, Colorado that purchases newborn calves from surrounding dairy factories and temporarily confines them before shipping them out to be raised for their meat. Just days old, many of these calves – some of whom still have their umbilical cords hanging from their bodies – are too feeble or frightened to walk steadily. As our footage shows, in the process of being moved on and off trucks, these fragile animals are violently dragged by their legs, pulled by their ears, lifted by their tails, kicked, thrown, slammed, and flipped. Animal handling expert Dr. Temple Grandin of Colorado State University decried the cruelty seen in our video, calling it “severe abuse” and “not acceptable” while further noting that “If this facility had been a slaughter plant, the USDA would have shut them down.” The cruelty to calves uncovered in this investigation was so shocking and violent that COK turned evidence over to local authorities, and we are now working with them on this case.
9News.com: Video shows livestock workers kicking, dragging newborn calves