Investigation: Springate Farm
Viva! has recently been handed footage shot inside tents housing turkeys that shows some of the worst conditions we have ever seen.
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Viva! has recently been handed footage shot inside tents housing turkeys that shows some of the worst conditions we have ever seen.
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The footage also shows three dead piglets (likely stillborn) dumped outside a farrowing crate with afterbirth; multiple dead piglets in with sows; sows kept in restrictive farrowing crates for up to five weeks at a time, which are so small they can’t even turn around
We saw deplorable scenes at the farm including a piglet left to rot inches from his mother and another fitting uncontrollably; piglets with painful, ulcerated trotters; a wheelbarrow full of dead piglets and afterbirth; mothering sows incarcerated in crates so restrictive they can’t even turn around for five weeks at a time and what looked like a mummified piglet.
Top Farm is operated by JC Lister. The Listers have boasted about selling their pork to major supermarket chains Tesco, the Co-operative and Aldi through Malton-based pork producers Karro Food Group.
We investigated this very same pig farm back in 2008. Clearly standards have not improved.
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