Tesco and Asda have stopped buying pork from a pig farm embroiled in allegations of animal cruelty.
Animal rights activists Animal Justice Project spent ten months secretly filming some of the 900,000 pigs at Somerby Top Farm in Lincolnshire, which is run by British meat producer Cranswick.
The Mail on Sunday reported workers would routinely ‘hit pigs with boards, paddles and their fists, deliberately targeting areas such as their snout and eyes’.
The newspaper added that welfare checks on the pig fattening farm often ignored ‘visible injuries and suffering, with one inspection of 1,000 pigs lasting just 90 seconds’, as well as ‘multiple botched killings of lame piglets’.
It was reported that some of the ‘most severe abuse’ was inflicted on animals two weeks after the farm was audited