Animals Abuse On British Farms

Animal abuse is routine and often legal on British farms. This is due to the low standards of care in place and the very limited legal protection farm animals receive.

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