9 UK slaughterhouses they filmed the following
Posted: Sun Feb 01, 2026 4:28 pm
When Animal Aid did their undercover slaughterhouse investigations at 9 UK slaughterhouses they filmed the following...
Animals being kicked in the face, slapped, stamped on, picked up by fleeces and ears, and forcibly thrown across or into stunning pens.
Animals screaming and struggling to escape.
Animals going to the knife without adequate stunning.
Animals stunned and then allowed to come round again.
Electric tongs used maliciously on the snouts, ears, tails, bodies and open mouths of pigs, resulting in the animals being given painful electric shocks.
Pigs being jabbed viciously in the face with the electric tongs.
Ewes being stunned while a lamb suckled them.
A sheep too sick to stand – or possibly already dead – being brought to slaughter in a wheelbarrow.
A pig bleeding after being deliberately hit in the face with a shackle hook.
Improperly stunned animals being stood on to keep them still while shackles were attached.
Pigs falling from the shackle line into the blood pit and then being dragged through groups of live pigs.
Animals being decapitated before the appropriate statutory time had elapsed, and while the animals may still have been alive.
Long periods elapsing between electrical stunning and ‘sticking’ (throat cutting), which increases the likelihood that animals regain consciousness. Pigs being burned with cigarettes.
In 240 hours taken throughout entire days, they only saw one vet once, checking three dead animals.
They never saw a vet anywhere near live animals.
The photo was taken at a slaughterhouse in Somerset and shows a pig screaming from an inadequate stun.
Animals being kicked in the face, slapped, stamped on, picked up by fleeces and ears, and forcibly thrown across or into stunning pens.
Animals screaming and struggling to escape.
Animals going to the knife without adequate stunning.
Animals stunned and then allowed to come round again.
Electric tongs used maliciously on the snouts, ears, tails, bodies and open mouths of pigs, resulting in the animals being given painful electric shocks.
Pigs being jabbed viciously in the face with the electric tongs.
Ewes being stunned while a lamb suckled them.
A sheep too sick to stand – or possibly already dead – being brought to slaughter in a wheelbarrow.
A pig bleeding after being deliberately hit in the face with a shackle hook.
Improperly stunned animals being stood on to keep them still while shackles were attached.
Pigs falling from the shackle line into the blood pit and then being dragged through groups of live pigs.
Animals being decapitated before the appropriate statutory time had elapsed, and while the animals may still have been alive.
Long periods elapsing between electrical stunning and ‘sticking’ (throat cutting), which increases the likelihood that animals regain consciousness. Pigs being burned with cigarettes.
In 240 hours taken throughout entire days, they only saw one vet once, checking three dead animals.
They never saw a vet anywhere near live animals.
The photo was taken at a slaughterhouse in Somerset and shows a pig screaming from an inadequate stun.
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