#arminvestigations

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Credit to @arminvestigations : The dairy industry has a lot to hide. Check out our website in the bio to learn more about the abuse ARM uncovered at 4 dairy farms in 2017. 🐮🐮🐮🐮 . #nationalmilkday #animalrights #arminvestigations #friendsnotfood #notyourmomnotyourmilk #notmilk #dairyfree #plantbased #ditchdairy https://www.instagram.com/p/Bs44e-5BzHy/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=q8ge1u6uuopw

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#FastRepost from @Animal Recovery Mission by @fastrepost_app ••• At freezing temperatures, 32 degrees is what this calf is suffering through at a Florida dairy farm. Taken from her mother soon after birth and lacking shelter, this female calf is dying of hypothermia at the hands of the dairy industry. . Leave cow’s milk off the table. There are so many delicious and healthier non-dairy options out there. Visit websites such as vegan.com/milk/ or chooseveg.com for more info on how to go dairy-free. 🐄💯 For info on ARM’s dairy investigations please visit our website in bio above ⬆️ #notmilk #dairyisscary #arminvestigations #animalrescue #plantbased #animalwelfare #animalcruelty #dairyfree #animalrights My guess would be #LarsonDairyFarms up in Palm Beach Co. Those dirty motherfuckers are always doing some underhanded illegal shit & paying off @usdagov inspectors. #corruption https://www.instagram.com/p/BqwDFp_HT8P/?utm_source=ig_tumblr_share&igshid=1dbwql0hzxiie

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ARM: The Animal Recovery Mission

Before seeing this video, I had never really heard of the Animal Recovery Mission, also known as ARM Investigations. Everyone knows the stigma around the People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals is an animal rights organization that is more commonly known as PETA. Even though, as an animal rights group, PETA has good intentions, some people believe that they are so desperate that they go the extra mile and actually stage the animal abuse seen in their videos. You’ve heard these rumors right?! With that being said, I wanted to find out more about the Animal Recovery Mission and their investigation into Larson Dairy Inc.

With this resource session, I went straight to the source, The Animal Recovery Mission’s website. On their ‘About’ tab I found out that this animal welfare organization was started in 2010 by founder, Chief Executive Director, and Lead Investigator, Richard Couto. In his bio, it states that Couto used to be a board member and investigator for the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (SPCA), another nationally known animal welfare group. While investigating an illegal slaughter farm he discovered a former thoroughbred race horse, ID’d as Freedom’s Flight by a tattoo on the inside of his upper lip. With a little research, Couto found out that Freedom’s Flight was a direct descendant of Secretariat, one of the most well-known race horses in history. After breaking his leg at a race in 2008, which ended his career, Freedoms was sold numerous times before eventually ending up at the illegal slaughter farm that Couto and the SPCA rescued him from. This experience, and numerous death and political threats from “high ranking officials” is what inspired Couto to organize the Animal Recovery Mission organization based out of Miami, Florida (ARM Investigations).

As you all know by now, ARM Investigations were the one’s who went undercover at a Larson Dairy farm, captured evidence of abuse by farm workers, and released it to the public. On their website, they have a whole page dedicated to the Larson Dairy undercover operation that the ran. You can find it here! At the bottom of the page, a link to a full PDF Report is provided. In this report, a list of 8 different local, state and national departments, agencies, and administrations that this report was sent to, various satellite or drone images (I’m not really sure which) depicting exactly where the farm and it’s buildings are located from a bird’s eye view. Also included are a few pages of Larson Dairy Inc. company information as well as 18 different Ockeechobee County Property Appraiser reports. The information included on them is beyond me, mostly because I’m not in the industry and am not entirely sure what each abbreviation included means. However, I believe they are just value reports for the land that Larson Dairy Inc. owns. I’m not entirely sure why these are relevant though. Also included in the report is a page from the 2017 Florida Statues, sections highlighted indicating the crimes that ARM Investigations accuses the employees and Jacob Larson of Larson Dairy of committing. Additionally, there are about 20 different still images from the video footage captured depicting the abuse that took place during ARM’s investigation with 10-15 bullet points near the end of the report describing said abuse. Finally there are also miscellaneous files such as a Code of Conduct (which explicitly lists “Abuse of livestock” at the top of the list of unacceptable behaviors in the workplace), and a few employee agreement forms that were signed and dated 8/16/2017 (indicating the beginning of the investigation).

While reading the summary of this report near the very beginning, I notice that the rhetoric used by the president of ARM Investigations, Richard Couto, seems to be targeting Jacob Larson directly, calling him out numerous times for violating the Code of Conduct including in his own hiring process. It is also disclosed that on top of not following his own Code of Conduct when it comes to animal mistreatment and abuse, Jacob Larson has also threatened to file a law suit against a former employee (another ARM Investigator) after trying to expose abuse taking place on the farm. Was this because Larson knew about the abuse on his farm and was trying to keep it quiet? However, this claim and incident is not backed up by evidence and is not explained further as to HOW exactly the former employee tried to expose the abuse. Was it formally brought up to Jacob Larson as directed in the employee handbook? Or immediately taken to the public? Possibly exaggerated? On that, I’m not really sure!

Quoted in the original Washington Post article that I came across, in response to the video and accusations made against him, Jacob Larson stated,

“The unusual use of force is simply unacceptable on out dairy or on any other far. We have strict protocols involving animal care and clearly the behavior shown in this video goes against everything we stand for and will not be tolerated.”

He also declared that they are “equally concerned about the manner in which this video was brought to out attention,” and insisted that had the abuse been brought to his attention sooner, he would have been able to do something about it much earlier (Andrews).And being that ARM Investigations called out and targeted Jacob Larson directly in their report that was sent out to numerous county, state and national agencies, yet never showed or talked about Jacob Larson being a perpetrator of the abuse, this leads me to speculate that maybe, just MAYBE, Jacob Larson really does have a passion and respect for his cows and truly didn’t know about the abuse going on on his farm. This makes me recall the very last seconds of the video in which ARM Investigations encourages people to “choose a dairy free plant based diet”. Could it be that this video was used as propaganda to perpetuate this sort of agenda to end dairy and meat consumption similar to what PETA has been accused of in the past? It could be a possibility! Why else would they target Jacob Larson directly in their report, and jump directly to encouraging a plant based diet instead of more humane and preventative measures to make sure food production animals, including dairy cows, are treated humanely and respectfully? Again, I am not really sure! All I know is that that videos and investigations like this can ruin business for a farm, especially when/IF exaggerated.

“If cows aren’t cool, clean and comfortable,t hey’re not producing quality milk. So we gotta take excellent care of them.”- Jacob Larson

Logic right? I’ll leave you all to answer that for yourselves.