Beaten for Bacon
ANIMAL EQUALITY INVESTIGATION REVEALS VIOLENT ABUSE ON A BRITISH PIG FARM
In April 2018, Animal Equality investigators documented workers repeatedly kicking, hitting and slamming gates into pigs; jabbing them with pitchforks; spraying paint directly and deliberately up their nose; dropping a severely lame pig from a tractor bucket; urinating onto pig pens; constantly shouting at pigs and laughing while abusing them. This brutality took place on Fir Tree Farm which is owned by Elsham Linc, one of Britain’s largest pig producers.
Hidden camera footage shows several workers involved in the violence, which is largely focused on the female pigs being used for breeding. Investigators also documented the prolonged suffering of pigs with painful wounds caused by the stressful conditions.
Consumers are constantly told to ‘Buy British’ for higher welfare, yet this cruelty was filmed on a Red Tractor certified pig farm in Lincolnshire. Labels and certificates can’t protect animals from suffering in the meat industry, but you can.
No bacon butty is worth this suffering.
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Following a tip off about cruelty
and abuse, we sent investigators
to furry farm In Lincolnshire, they found pigs
with scars and severe tail biting wounds.
Some were critically infected,
but the most shocking scenes occurred here
in the service house.
Hidden cameras filmed workers kicking pigs repeatedly,
violently, and
without remorse.
They jabbed a terrified pig with forks to force her in
with a hostile pig.
Investigators later filmed her scars.
She was clearly bullied by other pigs.
Yet the workers laughed as she tried to escape this attack.
Another worker sprayed paint up a pigs nose
his own amusement.
They displayed utter contempt for the animals in their care,
denying them even the smallest of pleasures
and showing complete disregard for their suffering.
This seriously ill pig was left for two days
without veterinary care.
Eventually they shoot him,
but for others, the beatings continued.
You can stop them.