Pigs Cut While Still Alive: Hidden Cam Showed Extreme Animal Cruelty in Slaughterhouse

According to an undercover inquiry, cows were hit with electric prods, and lambs and piglets were not stunned long enough before having their throats cut at a government-approved small slaughterhouse.

In a searing hot water tank, one piglet looked to be alive, and others were tossed in without being checked for signs of life.

Covert Investigation

Cows were shouted at, beaten, and shoved, some of which were inhumane.

Pigs had their legs chopped off while they struggled around in chains, displaying signs of life.

The stunning apparatus failed on four of the eight days that were videotaped, creating confusion and suffering among the pigs and sheep.

According to investigators, the FSA official vet was not videotaped entering the stun or kill rooms, and he ignored workers who broke the guidelines.

Ineffective Safeguard

They said that the film showed that CCTV, which has been obligatory in all abattoirs in England since 2018, was not safeguarding animals as effectively as it should be.

"For the period of our recording, the vet will have missed pre-stun shocks on animals, bad handling, malfunctioning stun devices, insufficient stun times, and indicators of awareness. Corrective action should have been done if the vet had been watching CCTV at the time of the incidents, according to an AJP spokeswoman.

Former UK government deputy chief vet and former veterinary director at the FSA, Alick Simmons, claimed other occasions when apparent violations of the law were demonstrated, including a sheep pulled by its horns and severely lame animals.

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