In response to MFA’s release of cruelty footage at Willet Dairy on Tuesday, Leprino Foods, a Denver-based cheese producer, has dropped Willet as a milk supplier. Leprino distributes cheese to the three largest pizza companies in the U.S. – Pizza Hut, Dominos and Papa John’s. Until Wednesday, milk from Willet had been sent to Leprino’s Waverly, N.Y. plant. Mike Reidy, a senior vice president of Leprino, stated on Thursday, “We are no longer served by that dairy.”
• Workers burning out the horns and slicing off the tails of calves without anesthesia
• Cows confined indoors in herds so densely packed or stalls so small that they could not move freely
• “Downed” cows – those too sick or injured to stand – left to suffer for weeks before they died or were killed
• Workers kicking, punching and electrically shocking cows and calves
• Cows with debilitating leg injuries, abscesses, open wounds and prolapsed uteruses, many caked with feces and left to fester without veterinary care
• Workers injecting cows with a controversial bovine growth hormone used to increase milk production
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