About the Mendes Calf Ranch:
Mendes Calf Ranch is located in Tipton, California, part of Tulare County. The facility raises approximately 12,000 dairy calves at a time, from up to 80 different ranches, for the first several months of their lives.
Calves are confined while their mothers are being milked at different dairy “factory farms.” The babies undergo a quick growth process at Mendes — intended to prepare them for the harsh demands of being milking cows themselves once they leave.
Footage obtained for ALDF by East Bay Animal Advocates shows that calves at the Mendes operation are unable to lie down naturally or turn around without contorting themselves. Crates are often covered in feces, and calves struggle to reach out through breaks in the walls to have any sort of physical contact — a strong natural instinct — with calves next door.
About This Case:
On June 19, 2006, the Animal Legal Defense Fund filed a complaint in Tulare County Superior Court against Mendes Calf Ranch for isolating and confining newborn calves in crates. This confinement violates state anti-cruelty laws, which require that animals be provided with adequate exercise area.
For more on the case, click here.
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