HUMANE INVESTIGATIONS CAMPAIGN
Currently, law enforcement agencies and humane enforcement efforts are focused primarily on companion animals, and there are rarely enforcement efforts for farmed animals in the State of California. Law enforcement is often unaware or misinformed of existing laws and the application of humane protection laws for farmed animals.
Downed cow and calf stuck in mud,
next to calf who had already died.
next to calf who had already died.
We need your help to send more humane investigators into the field to monitor, document, and help prevent farmed animal cruelty, and work with law and humane enforcement officials and agencies to ensure that farmed animals are not forgotten. We are currently focusing on our efforts at California dairy farms and stockyards/auctions (more information on these efforts is below.)
YOU CAN HELP
1. VOLUNTEER TO ASSIST WITH HUMANE INVESTIGATIONS by monitoring stockyards, auctions, and dairy farms in California. You will work directly with an Animal Acres Humane Investigator and be trained to conduct your own investigations. We currently need volunteers to help monitor stockyards, auctions, and dairy farms in Chino, CA. Please email us or call 661-269-5404 if you can help. (pls link to info@animalacres.org)
2. BECOME A MONTHLY SPONSOR OF OUR HUMANE INVESTIGATIONS CAMPAIGN. Just $5 or $10 a month will ensure we have the guaranteed funding we need each week to keep humane investigators in the field and respond to emergency cruelty cases to aid suffering farmed animals. Please click here to make a donation using our secure online donation page. Thank YOU. (link to monthly sponsorship program page)
CURRENT HUMANE INVESTIGATION CAMPAIGNS:
AA Humane Investigator gives water
to downed cow.
to downed cow.
California has over 49 livestock auctions and stockyards, and everyday, thousands of animals suffer cruelty and neglect during the marketing process. Sick and injured animals too weak to even stand (called "downers" ) are left suffering for hours or dragged to slaughter with chains. Animals have their legs tied together (called "hog-tying") and are thrown onto open-bed pick up trucks and transported for miles. Animals are left for hours in cages or pens without water or food. Sick animals do not receive veterinary care, and debilitated animals suffering from broken legs and other injuries are forced to stumble through auction rings. Animals who are considered "worthless" and no longer marketable are abandoned, and left to die slowly from starvation and neglect.
Animal Acres co-founder Lorri Houston did extensive investigations and exposes of downed animal abuses in CA that helped pass a downed animal protection law in the state. Though the law does not provide complete protection, it can be used to ensure that downed animals are not sold at auction or dragged to slaughter. Click here for a copy of the law.
Dead calf abandoned in mud.
On dairy production farms, hundreds of cows are placed into large "dairy lots", where the animals live in large dirt lots without adequate shelter. During severe rain storms, cows are left for days standing in mud and manure so thick, the animals cannot reach food, lie down, or even walk - yet no dairy in California has ever been charged with cruelty to animals. During our field investigations, it is common to find dead cows and calves abandoned at the dairies, along the side of the road for the rendering trucks.
Animal Acres humane investigators have been documenting cruel conditions at dairy farms in California, working directly with dairy producers to prevent dairy cow suffering, and rescuing victims of the dairy industry whenever possible. Please click here for an investigator report of a dairy farm investigation and action.
