Cattle in Misery

I read on Facebook that one of my "friends", a FB friend, I guess, which is decidedly different from a regular friend, is upset because she lives near a farm and from her perspective, the cattle are "skin and bones." I advised her to report this to someone, but not knowing where she lives it's difficult to figure out the authority in charge of this type of abuse. It sounds like the animals are suffering but what to do about it?
Of course, this is where direct action comes in, where someone who is willing and able to cut the fence and free the animals. But then what? Certainly there is not a Farm Sanctuary on every street corner like there is a Walgreens, though it would be so nice if there were.
It's hard to know what to do in a case like this, but it's easy to surmise that something needs to be done. If the statutes in her state, whatever that might be, are anything like Florida's statutes, well, they do not exclude cows. Just because an animal is not a pet does not mean he is not protected by anti-cruelty statutes. The definition of an animal is "any non-human animal" not "any cute furry animal". I hope and pray that she reports this and then sees it through. To do anything less is to be part of hte problem, and not part of the solution.

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