21/02/2026
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When Animal Aid went undercover in at least 10 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 burnt with ci******es, heads of sheep being cut off before the statutory time had elapsed and while they were, in all probability, still alive. In one slaughterhouse
the stun operator had trouble making effective and clean stuns, and a significant proportion of animals (12 per cent of the 114 cows filmed) endured multiple stuns in order to render them unconscious before slaughter.
Pigs were maliciously stunned on the body, and others were screaming from improper stuns and had to be restunned.
Animals were dragged, goaded and thrown into stunning areas. Cows were left for up to 65 minutes in the stunning box before they were stunned. Animals were shackled before they were stunned.
The problems are serious and widespread. Even where no laws were broken, animals still suffered pain and fear. And ‘high welfare’ plants, such as those accredited by the Soil Association, were no better than the non-organic ones.
Animal Aid believes that whether ‘conventional’, organic, kosher or halal, all slaughter is unnecessary and immoral.
Since Animal Aid's investigations there have been others done on farms and in slaughterhouses from Animal Equality, Animal Justice Project and Joey Carbstrong, the abuse is ongoing, it is absolute hell for animals. Even if all rules are followed, it is still hell for animals, but the added abuse and law breaking and complete disregard for these poor souls is commonplace.
Photo - Animal Aid - A lame pig being forced to drag herself through the slaughterhouse, taken at Cheale Meats in Essex.
