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Wednesday, September 30, 2009

Land O' Lakes Supplier Undercover Investigation

Undercover video of a Pennsylvania Land O' Lakes supplier shows workers' cruelty to animals milked for the dairy giant―including leaving cows to suffer and die slowly and painfully without veterinary care, food, water, or shelter.


Land o Lakes also makes Purina animal feed for cows and pigs and ALPINE LACEM

Land O’Lakes, Inc. operates as a diversified member-owned food and agricultural co-operative serving agricultural producers in the United States. It develops, produces, markets, and sells various butter, spreads, cheese, and other related dairy products under LAND O LAKES, Alpine Lace, and New Yorker brand names. The company also develops, produces, markets, and distributes animal feeds, such as ingredient feed, formula feed, milk replacers, vitamins, and additives to the lifestyle and livestock animal markets; and seed for various crops, including alfalfa, corn, soybeans, and forage and turf grasses, as well as distributes certain crop seed products under third-party brands and private labels. In addition, it invests in Agriliance LLC, which manufactures, markets, and distributes crop nutrient products, including fertilizers and micronutrients; and crop protection products, including herbicides, pesticides, fungicides, and adjuvant. The company also produces and markets shell egg products. Further, it operates LOL Finance Co., which provides operating loans and facility financing to farmers and livestock producers. Land O’Lakes, Inc. serves national supermarkets, super center chains, convenience stores, warehouse club stores, military commissaries, retail distribution outlets, commercial corporations, local co-operatives, private feed dealers, individual producers, food processors, restaurants, schools, hotels, airlines, and other seed companies in the United States and internationally. It has strategic relationships with Syngenta and Monsanto. The company distributes its products through independent regional and national food brokers, food distributors, local member co-operatives, and third-party trucking companies. Land O’Lakes, Inc. was founded in 1921 and is headquartered in Arden Hills, Minnesota

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