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Downer Photo Gallery |
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Retired milking cows are still pregnant when sold to slaughter. Calves are sometimes born at the slaughterhouse and have been left to die from exposure or malnutrition. |
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Downers – animals too sick, weak, or injured to walk – are often dragged and bulldozed to slaughter, or left to die
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This unwanted cow was unable to walk into the slaughter auction ring, so she was dumped on a dead pile of animals at the end of the day. The temperature was –20º F. After suffering for hours she was found frozen to death.
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Disabled cow just sold and loaded |
Injured dairy Holstein waits for packing house pickup |
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Pile of dead dairy cows. |
Disabled cow waiting to dragged into livestock truck. |
Shot in the head. |
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Dying cow in a livestock market parking lot. |
Dumped on a loading chute. |
Emaciated cows found dead. |
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| Disabled dairy cows waiting their turn for slaughter. | ||
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| Dairy cow with split pelvis waiting for slaughter. | Pigs too small to be profitable are often shot and cast aside. | A large sow unable to walk was just dumped from a truck onto a chute. |
