As the largest supplier of milk to UK supermarkets, multi-billion-pound dairy conglomerate Arla Foods is keen to maintain its reputation for ‘holistic’ farming that puts animal welfare first.
Its corporate website boasts glossy images of contented cows grazing in verdant meadows, accompanied by assurances of ‘clean and comfortable resting areas’, outdoor spaces, waterbeds and automated cow brushes – ‘because sometimes a good scratch hits the spot’.
But The Mail on Sunday can reveal that workers at some of its 2,400 British farms have been filmed kicking cows as they lie helpless on the ground, dragging them across concrete floors with farm vehicles,
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