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Local campaigners have been shocked and disgusted by a recent investigation carried out by animal welfare organisation, Viva! Campaigns, in to Hogwood pig ‘Horror’ Farm. Viva! Campaigns’ investigation made national headlines in June when horrifying scenes of extreme overcrowding
Hogwood Farm is a horrific place in Warwickshire, which houses around 16,000 pigs and is one of the largest pig farms Viva! has ever seen. The conditions for pigs there are so appalling that Viva! launched a campaign in 2017 urging supporters to TAKE ACTION and help us close down the farm.
Animal welfare organisation, Viva!, questions the efficiency of the government’s Animal & Plant Health Agency (APHA), condemning their lack of investigations and prosecutions in British farming.
In February 2017, footage obtained by Viva! Campaigns exposed an intensive factory farm, Lambrook Pig Unit, revealing truly dismal conditions. However, following the investigation and over one year later the farm has now closed.
In 2017, Viva! and Dean Farm Animal Sanctuary saved this family from slaughter and took them to their forever home in the beautiful Welsh countryside. See how they’re making themselves at home…
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.
