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Stop Animal Abuse at Threemile Canyon Farms

Demand Oregon’s attorney general act to protect cows (Warning: This alert contains graphic descriptions and photos of animal abuse at Threemile Canyon Farms.)

A report prepared by the Humane Farming Association (HFA) documents cruel and inhumane treatment of cows 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.

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Take Action at: http://www.ufwaction.org/campaign/animalabuse

 

Click here to see the entire 65 page Humane Farming Association report

Click here to see an abridged version of the Humane Farming Association report

Click here to see more photos of animal abuse from the Threemile Canyon Farm dairy

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A UFCW/Change to Win Campaign

Help Stop Exploitation of Smithfield Workers Treated Worse than Hogs

This week a coalition of unions along with immigrant, civil rights, religious and student groups aim to stop grave injustices being endured by workers at Smithfield Packing Co.

Former Smithfield workers will be speaking at rallies in seven cities June 19 to 22 in Richmond, VA; Chicago; New York City; Boston; Atlanta; Washington, DC; and Raleigh, NC. Click here to download the flyer and get event times and details.

If you don't live in these cities, you can still phone Smithfield's CEO Joe Luter at 1-888-366-6767. Luter made $10.8 million last year while many workers were paid less than $10 an hour.

Smithfield Packing (a subsidiary of Smithfield Foods) in Tar Heel, North Carolina is the largest pork processing plant in the world. Nearly 5,500 workers slaughter and pack 30,000 hogs each day. Working at a dizzying pace to put bacon and ham on our dinner tables, Smithfield workers suffer an extraordinarily high injury rate, firing of union supporters, on-the-job injuries, sexual harassment, threats of deportation, violence and poverty-level wages.

Deep in rural North Carolina, Smithfield has long exploited racial divisions, pitting Latino against African-American workers. But now workers are coming together along with a broad coalition of groups dedicated to justice at Smithfield.

One hundred years after Upton Sinclair's book “The Jungle†exposed horrific conditions faced by meatpacking industry workers, time has stood still at Smithfield. Join us this week as we say “No†to the Jungle of 2006.

Click here to learn more about the rallies this week and to sign-up for more info at the Justice at Smithfield website.

Click here to download a pdf of a moving column by Bob Herbert of the New York Times.

 

 

 

 

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