25 April 2012 ALAW welcomes the prison sentences handed down today to two slaughterhouse workers who were filmed gratuitously assaulting fully conscious pigs. The footage was filmed at Cheale Meats in Essex using a covert CCTV device installed by an investigator working with the campaign group Animal Aid. When the footage was recovered, it showed one worker stubbing out cigarettes on pigs’ snouts. Another worker was filmed beating pigs, with one pig being beaten 30 times in a minute, forcing […]
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