Stop Sickening Animal Abuse at World’s Largest Pizza Cheese Supplier

[Omaha Steve]

https://www.change.org/p/james-leprino-stop-sickening-animal-abuse-at-world-s-largest-pizza-cheese-supplier?alert_id=RhBijiMNSC_%2BKAePt2V3X98gE60JdcRW%2FZ6Mg5n1UqX2QDivbY2qxhngNUY0HbjFyfOA1xu9qK0&utm_campaign=147430&utm_medium=email&utm_source=action_alert


Petition at link.

Is your pizza topped with horrific animal cruelty?

A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation reveals appalling animal abuse at a Leprino Foods dairy supplier. Leprino Foods is the world’s largest mozzarella cheese producer and a supplier to virtually all of the major pizza chains in the country, including Pizza Hut, Papa John’s, and Domino’s.

The shocking hidden-camera video footage shows:

- Workers viciously kicking and punching cows, and stabbing them with screwdrivers, causing bloody wounds and injuries

- Cows being violently whipped in their faces and bodies with chains and metal wires

- Workers maliciously shocking sick and injured cows and dragging them with tractors

- Sick or injured cows suffering from open wounds, infections, and injuries left to suffer without proper veterinary care

Treated as mere milk-producing machines, cows exploited and killed for cheese used on pizzas endure lives of near constant misery and deprivation.

This has to stop!

Please, take a moment to sign this petition calling on Leprino Foods to immediately implement meaningful animal welfare policies to prevent egregious animal abuse at its supplier farms.

Thank you.

Published on Sep 16, 2014
Is your pizza topped with horrific animal cruelty? A new Mercy For Animals undercover investigation reveals shocking animal abuse at a major pizza cheese supplier — Leprino Foods. Workers were caught viciously kicking, punching, and stabbing cows with screwdrivers, and violently whipping them in their faces and bodies with chains and metal wires. Take action at SliceOfCruelty.com

[secondvariety]

1. There's a

special place in Hell waiting for those shit stains.

[Blue Owl]

2. K&R for humane practices

[cntrygrl]

3. Signed and shared. Evil practices!! n/t

[AtomicKitten]

4. I cannot look but am glad someone posted this.

I read about this a couple days ago. The word "sadistic" was used, and this industry indeed attracts some genuinely sick phucks. The cruelty is incomprehensible to me. Gut-wrenching. Puts me in a funk for some time.

I support Mercy for Animals, but am wondering if our government is so feckless it can't be bothered with regulating this industry.

[freshwest]

5. NOT the fault of gov't. WE ARE the gov't. Plenty of sick phucks elect sick phucks like this guy:

Rep. Steve King (R-RWNJ) of Iowa still supports cockfighting and dogfighting:

All you need to know about this smile:



Hellbeasts

TRIGGER WARNING, ANIMAL CRUELTY PICS

http://www.hellbeasts.com/?p=2156

More of what he's doing to maintain the cruelty:

http://www.opposingviews.com/i/society/animal-rights/hsus-calls-out-steve-king-opposition-anti-dogfighting-bill

http://www.humanesociety.org/news/press_releases/2012/08/steve_king_dogfighting_081212.html

His attitude isn't just bad about animals:

http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/13/1119754/-Iowa-s-Steve-King-Bring-the-Kids-to-the-Dogfights

http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/01/622881/steve-king-responds-dogfighting/

Keeps getting elected and fighting Democrats trying to stop this. The voters put this guy in to do their will...

[mucifer]

6. Unfortunately, cruelty is very common in the meat dairy and egg industries.

These corporations are huge and the way most of them house their animals is horrific. It's not just how they die, it's how they live.

Mercy For Animals is a wonderful organization. Thanks for posting this.