Day: April 22, 2011

An animal rights group on Wednesday released a stomach-turning video of calf mistreatment as an indictment of the meat industry as a whole, but the owner of the calf farm where the events took place says the footage does not represent how he operates. “I take what’s happened very seriously,” said Kirt Espenson, owner of E6 Cattle near Hart. “I’m deeply saddened by what happened on my watch. The employees who violated our code of conduct were terminated several weeks ago.” Chicago-based Mercy for Animals sent a contractor with a hidden camera who worked from March 2