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Animals Abuse On British Farms

Animal abuse is routine and in most cases legal on British farms. Due to incredibly low standards of care and very minimal oversight, a vast majority of animals live miserable lives and endure horrific suffering.

Aug 2025
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Terrified piglets hit in face and kicked across floor in sickening new pork farm scandal
Lincolnshire, England•Daily Mail
Jun 2025
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Secret video reveals gas chamber deaths of egg industry hens
West Yorkshire, England•The Independent
May 2025
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Organic salmon farm suspended by RSPCA for ‘beating’ fish to death
Isle of Skye, Scotland•The Telegaph
May 2025
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Factory farm supplying Tesco, Sainsbury's and Asda where helpless piglets are beaten to death
Lincolnshire, England•Daily Mail
Mar 2025
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Cows ‘beaten and left in squalid conditions’ at farm used by UK’s largest milk producer
North Yorkshire, England•The Independent
Mar 2025
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Slaughterhouse staff played wolf sounds to sheep and ‘inflicted immense pain, fear and distress’
Warwickshire, England•The Independent
Dec 2024
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Cameras film ‘horrendous practices’ at RSPCA-approved abattoirs
Four slaughterhouses in the United Kingdom•The Times
Dec 2024
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Pigs beaten with pitchforks at boar farm linked to supermarket bacon suppliers, footage reveals
Norfolk, England•The Independent
Oct 2024
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More than 1m farmed salmon die at supplier to leading UK retailers
Outer Hebrides, Scotland•The Guardian
Oct 2024
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RSPCA accused of 'welfare-washing' after 'undercover footage' of farm
Somerset, England•Somerset Live
Sep 2024
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Fish farm 'removed tonnes of dead salmon' before visit by MSPs
Argyll and Bute, Scotland•BBC News
Sep 2024
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Cows on farms supplying M&S and Muller kicked, punched, hit with chains and sworn at in shocking footage
Two farms in the United Kingdom•The Independent
Aug 2024
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Secret footage shot at RSPCA-certified abattoir that supplies major supermarkets shows staff hitting pig with paddles and 'terror-filled final moments' before they are killed for meat
Suffolk, England•Daily Mail
Jun 2024
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‘Indefensible’ footage from RSPCA Assured farms leads to calls for scheme to be scrapped
45 farms in the United Kingdom•Food Manufacture
May 2024
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Hens found suffering at free-range RSPCA-backed egg farms supplying M&S and Tesco, activists say
Four farms in England•The Independent
Apr 2024
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Pigs hit in face before ‘agonising’ CO2 death at supplier for Tesco, Asda, Aldi and M&S
Norfolk, England•The Independent
Mar 2024
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Chicks killed, crushed and trodden on at award-winning hatchery, disturbing video appears to show
Lincolnshire, England•The Independent
Mar 2024
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Secretly filmed footage shows 'appalling' conditions inside farms supplying 'free range' eggs to Sainsbury's
Five farms in England•Daily Mail
Mar 2024
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Calls for legal action after ‘unimaginable suffering’ filmed at Devon pig farm
Devon, England•The Guardian
Feb 2024
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Millions of store chickens suffer burns from excrement
United Kingdom•BBC News
Jan 2024
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Workers sacked after film shows pigs ‘beaten to death with iron bar’
Norfolk, England•The Independent
Dec 2023
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Ducks destined for Tesco and other supermarkets swung by necks and slammed into drawers in harrowing video
North Yorkshire, England•The Independent
Nov 2023
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Shocking footage shows ‘half-eaten dead cows’ at UK dairy farm
Ceredigion, Wales•Metro
Nov 2023
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Premature death of 80m chickens raises concerns over UK's fast-growing breeds
United Kingdom•The Guardian
Oct 2023
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Undercover filming by animal campaigners reveals Norfolk chicken workers kicking and hitting birds
Norfolk, England•ITV News
Sep 2023
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'Monstrous' sea lice and jellyfish invasions blighting Scottish salmon farms
Three farms in Scotland•The Guardian
Aug 2023
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The horrific suffering and abuse of hens on a megafarm supplying eggs to UK supermarkets
Bedfordshire, England•Daily Mail
Aug 2023
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Secret footage reveals chickens collapsing ‘in agony’ at farms supplying ‘ethical’ supermarket Co-op
Three farms in East Midlands, England•The Independent
Jun 2023
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Chickens 'crushed to death by machinery' on farm supplying British supermarkets
Lincolnshire, England•The Mirror
May 2023
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Undercover investigation reveals 'harrowing abuse' at Lincolnshire abattoir
Lincolnshire, England•Lincolnshire Live
May 2023
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Suffering of gassed pigs laid bare in undercover footage from UK abattoir
Manchester, England•The Guardian
Mar 2023
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Inside grim lives of farmed pigs forced to live in squalor and left for hours to die
Warwickshire, England•The Mirror
Feb 2023
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Footage from fish farms supplying top restaurants shows ‘salmon bleeding and trout suffocating’
Two farms in Scotland•The Independent
Jan 2023
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Undercover video finds cows on dairy giant farm that supplies Iceland and Costa Coffee ‘in filthy conditions’
Kent, England•The Independent
Dec 2022
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Piglets at RSPCA-backed farms ‘kicked, thrown and electrocuted’
Nine farms in East Anglia, England•The Independent
Aug 2022
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‘Carnage’ as millions of factory farm chickens die in sweltering sheds during record heatwave
United Kingdom•The Independent
Aug 2022
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New Duck Farm Investigation Reveals Abuse, Gaps in Biosecurity Protocols
Lincolnshire, England•Sentient Media
Jul 2022
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Norfolk farm suspended while pig shootings are probed after disease outbreak
Norfolk, England•Daily Express
Jul 2022
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Goats ‘shoved and neglected’ at show farm that supplies M&S, Ocado, Asda and Morrisons
North Yorkshire, England•The Independent
Apr 2022
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KFC faces backlash over ‘misleading’ portrayal of UK chicken farming
Lincolnshire, England•The Guardian
Feb 2022
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Farmers beat cows with spades in disturbing BBC Panorama episode
Carmarthenshire, Wales•The Independent
Dec 2021
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Dead and wounded turkeys found among living at farm linked to supermarkets
Lincolnshire, England•The Independent
Nov 2021
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'Unacceptable' footage shows cows being hit and kicked at farm
Somerset, England•Somerset Live
Nov 2021
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The Truth About Your Chicken: Dispatches
United Kingdom•Channel 4
Aug 2021
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Fast-growing 'Franken-chickens' bred for Morrisons die in 'extreme' pain & filth
Four farms in East Anglia, England•The Mirror
Jul 2021
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Chickens died of thirst and dead birds left to rot at suppliers to Tesco, Sainsbury, Lidl and KFC
Herefordshire, England•The Independent
Jul 2021
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Cows beaten with electric prods and pigs cut while still alive, secret cameras show
Cheshire, England•The Independent
Jun 2021
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Supermarkets suspend farm where workers kicked pigs and dying animals left to rot among living
North Yorkshire, England•The Independent
May 2021
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Horrific undercover footage shows pigs hammered to death at Scots farm
Aberdeenshire, Scotland•The Scottish Sun
Apr 2021
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Farm workers punch, kick and hurl distressed young calves in shocking undercover footage
Shropshire, England•Daily Mail
Mar 2021
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‘Free-range’ hens from Happy Egg suppliers suffer misery in overcrowded sheds, investigators claim
Three farms in England•The Independent
Feb 2021
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Waitrose salmon supplier Scottish Salmon Company 'let fish die on the floor'
Scotland•The Times
Jan 2021
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Test Valley Trout Farming staff kick live fish along floor
Hampshire, England•The Times
Dec 2020
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Turkeys ‘kicked hundreds of times and left wounded at farms supplying Sainsbury’s and Asda’
Three farms in Norfolk and Gloucestershire, England•The Independent
Nov 2020
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Animal Aid investigators claim to find 'shocking conditions' at Fridays Ltd egg farm near Goudhurst
Kent, England•Kent Online
Nov 2020
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Video shows ducks sold by Tesco, Asda and Waitrose ‘brutally shackled on electric waterbath lines and dragged by wings’
Suffolk, England•The Independent
Oct 2020
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Egg farm kept hens in cruelly overcrowded cages without enough water to drink, investigators say
East Sussex, England•The Independent
Oct 2020
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Animal charity raises concerns over 'frankenchickens'
Gloucestershire and Herefordshire, England•BBC News
Aug 2020
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Starving pigs are caught on film resorting to cannibalism in a shocking catalogue of neglect unveiled at 'high standards' farm
Leicestershire, England•Daily Mail
Aug 2020
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Wetherspoon, Tesco and Lidl ban beef from mega farm amid evidence cattle suffered severe lameness and secret filming showed stockmen beating and abusing the animals
Northamptonshire, England•Daily Mail
Aug 2020
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Chickens at farms supplying Tesco and Ocado made to die of thirst or had necks crushed
Four farms in Lincolnshire and Nottinghamshire, England•The Independent
Jul 2020
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Goats punched, hit, kicked and ‘left lame’ at farm supplying milk to Tesco, Sainsbury, Waitrose and Ocado, video shows
East Yorkshire, England•The Independent
Jun 2020
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Horrifying undercover footage shows pig farm worker slamming piglets into concrete floor while others are thrown into metal troughs
Berkshire, England•Daily Mail
Jan 2020
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Shocking reality of free range egg farm that supplies Tesco and Sainsbury’s
East Sussex, England•Metro
Jan 2020
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Inside 'disease-ridden' Sussex farm which supplies Asda, Tesco, Sainsbury's and Morrisons
East Sussex, England•Kent Live
Dec 2019
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Christmas turkeys 'plucked alive' in 'horrific' undercover footage
Northamptonshire, England•The Metro
Dec 2019
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Gressingham Foods HORROR: Worker at Britain's biggest duck meat farm 'SNAPS' birds' necks in secret film by animal rights group
Norfolk, England•Daily Mail
Nov 2019
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Cows sexually abused, hit and punched at company owned by NFU deputy president, footage shows
Essex, England•The Independent
Nov 2019
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Slaughterhouse where workers trampled sheep took no action to prevent animal suffering despite being warned seven months earlier, report finds
Wrexham, Wales•Daily Mail
Sep 2019
Sheep about to be killed in a slaugherhouse
Covert footage shows ‘horrendous cruelty’ towards sheep at UK abattoir
Wrexham, Wales•The Independent
Aug 2019
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Tesco drops pork farm over 'distressing' undercover film
Warwickshire, England•BBC News
Aug 2019
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Footage shows horrific conditions at Lincolnshire chicken farm
Lincolnshire, England•Lincolnshire Live
Aug 2019
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Tesco drops pork farm over 'distressing' undercover film
Warwickshire, England•BBC News
Jul 2019
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Thousands of chickens baked to death during heatwave
Lincolnshire, England•The Metro
Jul 2019
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Tesco suspends chicken sales from ‘ethical’ farm after video shows injured birds being kicked and hurled into crates
Suffolk, England•The Independent
Jun 2019
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Footage reveals chickens in 'horrifying conditions' at big UK producer
Three farms in Lincolnshire, England•The Guardian
May 2019
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Nando’s and Asda chicken: Birds ‘stepped on and left convulsing and wounded in scenes of suffering and cannibalism’
Northamptonshire, England•The Independent
Feb 2019
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Undercover footage of violence at dairy farm prompts RSPCA investigation
Buckinghamshire, England•The Guardian
Jan 2019
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Farmworkers shown jabbing pigs with pitchfork in undercover footage
Lincolnshire, England•The Independent
Dec 2018
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Turkeys ‘eating each other alive’ at award-winning farm supplying upmarket pubs and ready-meals shop Cook
Essex, England•The Independent
Dec 2018
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Horrifying footage shows deformed and crippled turkeys struggling to walk at a British farm run by supermarket supplier
Lincolnshire, England•Daily Mail
Oct 2018
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Underwater film reveals salmon with twisted spines as fears mount over cages
Argyll and Bute, Scotland•The Sunday Post
Sep 2018
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Undercover video footage shows cattle being beaten at Devon slaughterhouse
Devon, England•The Guardian
Aug 2018
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Newborn calves on organic dairy farm thrown to ground, hit and force-fed by workers
Somerset, England•The Mirror
Jul 2018
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Cannibal pigs 'eat each other alive' at farm that supplies pork for Tesco, a year after officials found it had no breach of animal welfare standards
Warwickshire, England•Daily Mail
May 2018
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Undercover footage reveals violent animal abuse on farm owned by one of Britain’s largest pig producers
Lincoinshire, England•ITV News
Mar 2018
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Footage shows 'horrific conditions' endured by 500,000 chickens in farm supplying eggs to major supermarkets
Dorset, England•The Independent
Nov 2017
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Secret footage shows 'decomposing piglet found beside its family at Lincolnshire farm where pigs are kept in tiny pens'
Lincolnshire, England•Lincolnshire Live
Aug 2017
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Lidl and Nando's chicken supplier leaves deformed birds to die slowly on Taunton farm
Somerset, England•The Independent
Jul 2017
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"A vision of hell": Sickening scenes inside pig farm that shames Britain
Warwickshire, England•The Mirror
Apr 2017
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Inside one of Britain’s largest halal slaughter houses where ‘poorly trained’ slaughtermen hack open terrified sheep’s throats
Lancashire, England•The Sun
Feb 2017
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Pig farm described as a 'hell hole' that supplies slurry to generate green energy for thousands of families
Somerset, England•Daily Mail
Dec 2016
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Workers 'punch and kick' calves and smash cows with iron gates in shocking undercover footage showing 'unprecedented levels of abuse' at British dairy farm
Somerset, England•Daily Mail
Dec 2016
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Undercover footage of Essex turkey farm shows 'ragged birds kept in squalid conditions'
Essex, England•The Independent
Dec 2016
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Turkey Farm Investigation Could Change Your Mind About Your Christmas Roast
Norfolk, England•Huffington Post
Jul 2016
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Armed with a camera and sheer bravado, this rebel aristocrat flouts the law on a daring mission to save PIGS from the sickening conditions they endure on British farms
United Kingdom•Daily Mail
May 2016
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Halal horror house as undercover video exposes cruel abattoir filled with terrified animals
Norwich, England•The Mirror
Oct 2015
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Shocking footage reveals pigs crammed into tiny cages next to abandoned carcasses at farm that supplies Morrisons
Humberside, England•Daily Mail
Feb 2015
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Secret film shows ‘extreme cruelty’ in slaughterhouse
North Yorkshire, England•Channel 4 News