RSPCA slams violent attacks on cows at Cathedral City cheese farms

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"The RSPCA has condemned as completely unacceptable the way men at two dairy farms supplying milk for Cathedral City cheese violently attacked cows. An animal-rights filmmaker secretly filmed workers jabbing animals with sharp objects, hitting them with metal brooms, punching, slapping and kicking them, and twisting their tails. The company that produces Cathedral City cheese warned its dairy farmers to watch out for strangers on their property and not to talk to them after learning that the filming had taken place."

"In some instances men were seen hitting cows with plastic pipes and twice they were seen inserting rods into animals' rectums to make them stand. Activists claimed the cows were controlled with force and fear. Cows were hit and frightened at Polshea Farm, the footage shows (Joey Carbstrong) The government and county council say animal-welfare officials are investigating the farms in Cornwall, and one was suspended after secret recordings were revealed."

Donations support sending journalists to cover major US issues including reproductive rights, climate change, and Big Tech while keeping reporting freely accessible without paywalls. Reporters investigate financials, produce documentaries, and parse facts from messaging to present both sides of stories across the political spectrum. An undercover filmmaker captured violent abuse at two dairy farms supplying Cathedral City cheese, showing workers jabbing cows with sharp objects, hitting them with metal brooms, punching, slapping, kicking, twisting tails, and inserting rods into rectums. Dairy producers suspended a supplier, and animal-welfare officials and local authorities launched investigations, with at least one farm suspended pending inquiry.

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