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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.
As part of our 12 month investigation into the British pig industry we obtained footage filmed at two farms belonging to Bedfordia Farms in Bedfordshire.
Face Off is a nationwide campaign that challenges the British public to open their eyes to the realities of how animals are factory farmed. Take the challenge and watch our videos!
Piglets in barren wire ‘battery cages’ stacked three deep. The only so-called ‘environmental enrichment’ was a metal chain hanging in a metal cage.
British goats suffer as much as dairy cows: with their babies taken away from them almost immediately.
Our undercover investigators have been inside numerous dairy farms that supply Cadbury with milk. Here we expose the bloody secrets of one of the nation’s favourite confectionery brands.
At three Welsh markets we covertly filmed an appalling disregard for biosecurity – one of the many failings in modern animal husbandry that could be to blame for the spread of bovine TB.
