Meet Ayrshire Farm owned by Sandy Lerner (net worth.hundreds of millions) located in Upperville, VA (in Loudoun county the wealthiest county in the US) and is "certified humane" and "certified organic". Behind the scenes it looks as if you stepped into a 3rd world country. Untreated animals, abused, neglected etc. The county authorities don't deny abuse but refuse to press charges. I filed a criminal complaint against the large livestock manager and it went to trial on the 20th. The state prosecutor abandoned the case minutes before trial leaving me to prosecute a criminal case against a private attorney. The large livestock manager pled the 5th and refused to testify. (Yes apparently in VA private citizens can prosecute criminal cases...who knew...)
One would think these photographs are of pigs in a 3rd world country.
These are actually photographs from Sandy Lerner's Ayrshire Farm located in Loudoun County, VA. One of the wealthiest women in the wealthiest county in the United States.
Loudoun, demand better. Virginia, demand better.
We should be a model for sustainable and humane agriculture, not what wealth allows you to get away with.
https://www.facebook.com/ayrshirefarmabuse
Meredith, you definitely need to contact the VA Bar Association about what that attorney did. Not only was that unprofessional and unethical, it might even have been illegal for him to do that. You can file a complaint with them that will stay on his record.
ReplyDeleteI am in the process of figuring it all out. Really disappointing but their behavior is not that surprising. The refusal of county government to act is what prompted the criminal complaint. The bait and switch of the commonwealth attorney assigned to the county? Just an extension.
DeleteThis is just another road block. I will never give up on those pigs. I know what sadistic animal abusers Ayrshire Farm employs and contracts and will NEVER drop this.
Also.it highlights a larger problem nationally within the Humane Farm Animal Care "certified humane" certification.
"Sadistic" is the right word. What normal person can bear to look at the pictures of those poor animals. You were motivated to improve their lives so that kept you going. What is Crystal's reason for even coming to work? What does she do all day? And Sandy pays her to let her animals die? She could pay her to stay home and hire a few more "contractors" and an interpreter. They could follow the checklist that HFAC so helpfully provided
Deleteyears after the abuse started.
Good comment--- and good question: why do people like this get involved with livestock/farming at all?
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