Temple Grandin Thinks Conklin Dairy Farm Incident Is Rare
Written by Vegetarian Star on June 24th, 2010 in Animal Issues.
Dr. Temple Grandin, scientist who has worked with the animal agricultural industry to bring change to way animals raised for food and handled, spoke with Food Safety News on the Conklin Dairy Farm investigation that uncovered a worker beating and torturing a cow. Grandin feels these incidents are not the norm, as many activist insists.
“Most places are not doing stuff that horrible. To say that every dairy treats their animals that way, no, that’s wrong, they’re not. But on the other hand, the truth is usually somewhere in the middle, between the animal rights advocates that say everything is an atrocity, to the industry who says everything’s just fine. I’ve worked in a lot of places. It’s somewhere in the middle. It’s a constant battle. You can’t under staff and overwork. Tired people are more likely to get angry, and so are overworked people.”
Is it a matter of an isolated incident? Or are too many farms able to cover up cases like that at Conklin and get away with abuse on a regular basis? Dr. Grandin has suggested that some of the facilities, such as slaughterhouses, put live camera feeds in the buildings so that every activity is monitored.
It’s also a matter of what is considered abuse, as the Humane Society points out, there are no federal laws regulating the treatment of animals raised for food on farms.
Read more at Food Safety News.
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