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INVESTIGATION: Workers Brutally Beating Pigs on British Farm
May 23, 2018
Updated: January 20, 2025
Animal Equality has today released shocking scenes of animal abuse filmed on Fir Tree pig farm in Lincolnshire, United Kingdom, which is owned by Elsham Linc – one of Britain’s largest pig producers.
https://vimeo.com/1044702473
- Kicking pigs in the face and head, often violently and repeatedly, with over 100 incidents of kicking recorded in 10 days.
- Jabbing pigs repeatedly with the tines of a mucking out fork.
- Transporting an injured pig in the bucket of a tractor and hitting it repeatedly (by kicking and with a gate) when it couldn’t move into a pen.
- Spraying marker paint directly up a pig’s nose.
- Slamming gates on pigs’ heads.
- Hitting pigs in the face and head with heavy plastic boards (pig boards).
- Workers laughing about the abuse and swearing at pigs.
- Leaving a ‘downed’ pig without veterinary care for 48 hours before shooting him.
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