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Coca-Cola hit with class action over treatment of cows at Fair Oaks

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Fairlife

CHICAGO (Legal Newsline) – Coca-Cola’s fairlife milk products wrongfully claim that the milk in them comes from cows that were treated humanely, a new class action lawsuit says.

A group of plaintiffs filed the case June 25 in Chicago federal court, claiming they bought fairlife products partly because the defendant made representations about how cows were treated in a farm collective.

“But despite making these explicit Animal Welfare Promises, they were false, deceptive and misleading,” the lawsuit says.

“Defendants did not live up to those promises: several undercover investigations revealed widespread abuse at farms that source fairlife products – including at Defendants’ ‘flagship farm’ Fair Oaks.”

Undercover video shows livestock suffering abuse at the hands of farm management, the lawsuit says. Cows were tortured, kicked, beaten, burned, force-fed and confined to tiny spaces, it says.

About a year ago, the farm was accused of animal rights violations because of the undercover footage.

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