Visuals of abscess draining in a Bovine shared as dairy industry milking a cow by cutting its skin - FACTLY
Sai Krishna Muthyanolla
November 4, 2022
A video is being shared on social media claiming it shows how dairy industries are milking cattle by cutting its skin. This post claims that dairy industry, during the last stage of a cattle, cut its skin, recover each drop of milk and send the cow to the slaughterhouse where it would be killed mercilessly and supplied to retail meat stores. Let’s verify the claim made in the post.
Claim: Video of dairy industry workers milking a cow by cutting its skin.
Fact: The video shared in the post shows the draining process of an abscess from a bovine’s body. An abscess is an accumulation of pus, usually caused by a bacterial infection in human beings, cattle and other animals. NCBI and several other medical research studies have clearly stated that a sharp incision of a scalpel blade or hoof-knife into the abscess-infected portion is one of the primary methods of draining the abscess from cattle bodies. The video does not show a cow milking method. Hence, the claim made in the post is FALSE.
On reverse image search of the screenshots of the video, a video with similar visuals was found published by a Facebook page named Veterinarian. This user published the video describing it is the draining process of an abscess in a Holstein cow. Several other users have also shared the same video describing it is the visuals of draining abscess.
An abscess is an accumulation of pus, usually caused by a bacterial infection in human beings, cattle and other animals. There are several videos available on the internet showing similar visuals of the draining process of abscesses from cattle bodies. They can be seen here, here and here.
The National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI) and other medical research studies have published articles related to this method of draining abscesses from cattle bodies. They can be seen here, here and here. All these research studies noted ventral incision as one of the primary principles of abscess management. According to these research studies, a sharp scalpel blade or hoof-knife incision at the abscess-infected region was determined as one of the primary methods of draining abscesses from cattle. A video narrating the detailed process of abscess drainage in cattle can be seen here.
To sum it up, the video shared in the post shows the draining process of an abscess from a bovine, not a milking method followed by the dairy industries..