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Animals Abuse On British Farms

Animal abuse is routine and standard practice on British farms. This is due to the incredibly low standards of care permitted by law and very minimal oversight of the industry.

Dec 2024
Cameras film ‘horrendous practices’ at RSPCA-approved abattoirs
Four slaughterhouses in the United Kingdom•The Times
Dec 2024
Pigs beaten with pitchforks at boar farm linked to supermarket bacon suppliers, footage reveals
Norfolk, England•The Independent
Oct 2024
RSPCA accused of 'welfare-washing' after 'undercover footage' of farm
Somerset, England•Somerset Live
Sep 2024
Cows on farms supplying M&S and Muller kicked, punched, hit with chains and sworn at in shocking footage
Two farms in the United Kingdom•The Independent
Aug 2024
Secret footage shot at abattoir shows staff hitting pig with paddles
Suffolk, England•Daily Mail
Jun 2024
‘Indefensible’ footage from RSPCA Assured farms leads to calls for scheme to be scrapped
45 farms in the United Kingdom•Food Manufacture
May 2024
Hens found suffering at free-range RSPCA-backed egg farms supplying M&S and Tesco, activists say
Four farms in England•The Independent
Apr 2024
Pigs hit in face before ‘agonising’ CO2 death at supplier for Tesco, Asda, Aldi and M&S
Norfolk, England•The Independent
Mar 2024
Chicks killed, crushed and trodden on at award-winning hatchery, disturbing video appears to show
Lincolnshire, England•The Independent
Mar 2024
Secretly filmed footage shows 'appalling' conditions inside farms supplying 'free range' eggs to Sainsbury's
Five farms in England•Daily Mail
Mar 2024
Calls for legal action after ‘unimaginable suffering’ filmed at Devon pig farm
Devon, England•The Guardian
Feb 2024
Millions of store chickens suffer burns from excrement
United Kingdom•BBC News
Jan 2024
Workers sacked after film shows pigs ‘beaten to death with iron bar’
Norfolk, England•The Independent
Dec 2023
Ducks destined for Tesco and other supermarkets swung by necks and slammed into drawers in harrowing video
North Yorkshire, England•The Independent
Nov 2023
Shocking footage shows ‘half-eaten dead cows’ at UK dairy farm
Ceredigion, Wales•Metro
Nov 2023
Premature death of 80m chickens raises concerns over UK's fast-growing breeds
United Kingdom•The Guardian
Oct 2023
Undercover filming by animal campaigners reveals Norfolk chicken workers kicking and hitting birds
Norfolk, England•ITV News
Sep 2023
'Monstrous' sea lice and jellyfish invasions blighting Scottish salmon farms
Three farms in Scotland•The Guardian
Aug 2023
The horrific suffering and abuse of hens on a megafarm supplying eggs to UK supermarkets
Bedfordshire, England•Daily Mail
Aug 2023
Secret footage reveals chickens collapsing ‘in agony’ at farms supplying ‘ethical’ supermarket Co-op
Three farms in East Midlands, England•The Independent
Jun 2023
Chickens 'crushed to death by machinery' on farm supplying British supermarkets
Lincolnshire, England•The Mirror
May 2023
Undercover investigation reveals 'harrowing abuse' at Lincolnshire abattoir
Lincolnshire, England•Lincolnshire Live
May 2023
Suffering of gassed pigs laid bare in undercover footage from UK abattoir
Manchester, England•The Guardian
Mar 2023
Inside grim lives of farmed pigs forced to live in squalor and left for hours to die
Warwickshire, England•The Mirror
Jan 2023
Undercover video finds cows on dairy giant farm that supplies Iceland and Costa Coffee ‘in filthy conditions’
Kent, England•The Independent
Dec 2022
Piglets at RSPCA-backed farms ‘kicked, thrown and electrocuted’
Nine farms in East Anglia, England•The Independent
Aug 2022
‘Carnage’ as millions of factory farm chickens die in sweltering sheds during record heatwave
United Kingdom•The Independent
Aug 2022
New Duck Farm Investigation Reveals Abuse, Gaps in Biosecurity Protocols
Lincolnshire, England•Sentient Media
Jul 2022
Norfolk farm suspended while pig shootings are probed after disease outbreak
Norfolk, England•Daily Express
Jul 2022
Goats ‘shoved and neglected’ at show farm that supplies M&S, Ocado, Asda and Morrisons
North Yorkshire, England•The Independent
Apr 2022
KFC faces backlash over ‘misleading’ portrayal of UK chicken farming
Lincolnshire, England•The Guardian
Feb 2022
Farmers beat cows with spades in disturbing BBC Panorama episode
Carmarthenshire, Wales•The Independent
Dec 2021
Dead and wounded turkeys found among living at farm linked to supermarkets
Lincolnshire, England•The Independent
Nov 2021
'Unacceptable' footage shows cows being hit and kicked at farm
Somerset, England•Somerset Live
Nov 2021
The Truth About Your Chicken: Dispatches
United Kingdom•Channel 4
Aug 2021
Fast-growing 'Franken-chickens' bred for Morrisons die in 'extreme' pain & filth
Four farms in East Anglia, England•The Mirror
Jul 2021
Chickens died of thirst and dead birds left to rot at suppliers to Tesco, Sainsbury, Lidl and KFC
Herefordshire, England•The Independent
Jul 2021
Cows beaten with electric prods and pigs cut while still alive, secret cameras show
Cheshire, England•The Independent
Jun 2021
Supermarkets suspend farm where workers kicked pigs and dying animals left to rot among living
North Yorkshire, England•The Independent
May 2021
Horrific undercover footage shows pigs hammered to death at Scots farm
Aberdeenshire, Scotland•The Scottish Sun
Apr 2021
Farm workers punch, kick and hurl distressed young calves in shocking undercover footage
Shropshire, England•Daily Mail
Feb 2021
Waitrose salmon supplier Scottish Salmon Company 'let fish die on the floor'
Scotland•The Times
Nov 2020
Video shows ducks sold by Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ‘brutally shackled on electric waterbath lines and dragged by wings’
Suffolk, England•The Independent
Oct 2020
Egg farm kept hens in cruelly overcrowded cages without enough water to drink, investigators say
East Sussex, England•The Independent
Oct 2020
Animal charity raises concerns over 'frankenchickens'
Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, England•BBC News
Aug 2020
Starving pigs are caught on film resorting to cannibalism in a shocking catalogue of neglect unveiled at 'high standards' farm
Leicestershire, England•Daily Mail
Aug 2020
Wetherspoon, Tesco and Lidl ban beef from mega farm amid evidence cattle suffered severe lameness and secret filming showed stockmen beating and abusing the animals
Northamptonshire, England•Daily Mail
Aug 2020
Chickens at farms supplying Tesco and Ocado made to die of thirst or had necks crushed
Four farms in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, England•The Independent
Jun 2020
Horrifying undercover footage shows pig farm worker slamming piglets into concrete floor while others are thrown into metal troughs
Berkshire, England•Daily Mail
Jan 2020
Inside 'disease-ridden' Sussex farm which supplies Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons
East Sussex, England•Kent Live
Dec 2019
Christmas turkeys 'plucked alive' in 'horrific' undercover footage
Northamptonshire, England•The Metro
Dec 2019
Gressingham Foods HORROR: Worker at Britain's biggest duck meat farm 'SNAPS' birds' necks in secret film by animal rights group
Norfolk, England•Daily Mail
Nov 2019
Cows sexually abused, hit and punched at company owned by NFU deputy president, footage shows
Essex, England•The Independent
Aug 2019
Tesco drops pork farm over 'distressing' undercover film
Warwickshire, England•BBC News
Aug 2019
Footage shows horrific conditions at Lincolnshire chicken farm
Lincolnshire, England•Lincolnshire Live
Jul 2019
Thousands of chickens baked to death during heatwave
Lincolnshire, England•The Metro
Jul 2019
Footage reveals chickens in 'horrifying conditions' at big UK producer
Three farms in Lincolnshire, England•The Guardian
Jul 2019
Tesco suspends chicken sales from ‘ethical’ farm after video shows injured birds being kicked and hurled into crates
Suffolk, England•The Independent