Piglets at RSPCA-backed farms ‘kicked, thrown and electrocuted’

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Exclusive: Animal welfare charity suspends members of its Assured scheme after secret footage reveals cruelty

and piglets to violence witnessed by colleagues at sites previously endorsed by the charity for having better standards than most.showed it the video clips.Animal rights organisation Animal Justice Project secretly filmed 125 hours of footage at nine East Anglian farms where workers were loading and unloading pigs onto transporters for abattoirs and to other sites.

“The panicked animals tried to escape by jumping hay bales while the handler shocked them in quick succession without waiting for a response,” Animal Justice Project said. At two other East Anglian farms endorsed by the charity, animals were repeatedly jabbed with boards, hit on their heads and rammed with a metal transporter door, the activists said. The violence “added to the animals’ distress, pain and panic”.On a separate occasion, workers kicked a pig in the face after failing to create an effective barrier.

The Conservatives’ grand animal welfare action plan, announced to great fanfare last year, includes a ban on live exports – for which live transport is essential – but the bill containing a ban is at risk of being dropped, as the government has refused to make parliamentary time for it.Alice Brough, a specialist pig vet, said the footage showed use of electric goads was repeated and gratuitous.

 

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