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.