Undercover footage exposes animal cruelty on India’s dairy farms
Undercover footage reveals what happens inside dairy farms in India. But the findings show practices common within the global dairy industry.
Newborn calves are taken from their mothers within minutes of birth. Male calves—unable to produce milk—are killed. The females will repeat the cycle of their mothers: forced impregnation, separation from their babies and milked dry.
Investigators documented animals confined for years inside filthy and deplorable sheds. Injured animals are denied even basic care. Illegal hormone injections were also recorded.
These practices are part of a global system—and the consequences extend beyond animals to public health and food safety.
Watch the footage and share their stories: https://animalequality.org/news/2026/02/03/death-on-a-dairy-farm/
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In dairy farms,
reproduction is no longer natural.
Mothers are artificially
inseminated year after year.
Calves are taken from
their mothers moments after birth
so that their milk can be sold to us.
The mothers cry out, their babies cry back,
but they are never reunited.
Since male calves don't produce milk,
they are left to die or sold for slaughter.
Because of the separation from a baby,
the mother stops giving milk.
She is then injected with oxytocin,
a banned hormone causing
intense uterine contractions.
It also has detrimental effect on consumers,
like early puberty in girls, gynecomastia
in boys and vision
or urine problems in children.
Pregnant women risk miscarriage, birth defects,
low infant immunity, and postpartum
bleeding from its consumption.
In a cruel deception, some farmers stuffed
the bodies of dead calves with hay
just to trick mothers into giving milk again.
These animals are forced to spend their lives
tied to short ropes, stand
and sleep in their own waste.
The air is thick with stench.
The milk is collected and sold
in such unhygienic conditions.
At one dairy, we saw animals being fed
expired, moldy bread.
This is the hidden face of dairy.
But we have the power to end this mass torture
by eliminating dairy products and replacing it
with plant based dairy made from soy,
almonds, peanuts, rice and coconut.
Kindness is growing.
People around
the world are choosing plant based dairy.
Every choice we make can save animal lives.