Best reading the full article or watching [the accompanying video report for this investigation ](https://youtu.be/Eqa2F5ie6C8). The Mirror headline really undersells the horrific state of what happens
This will be downvoted but it genuinely shocks me how most people seem to be completely fine with shutting their eyes to the horrors that happen. As long as they can keep eating burgers, they don’t care that living creatures suffer horrific lives. I just don’t see how anyone can take that approach and consider themselves to be a moral person.
In Suffolk:
>Animal Justice Project filmed undercover footage inside C&K Meats — a facility slaughtering both intensively-reared and free-range pigs – over several days.
>This abattoir, which has the capacity to kill around 1,200 to 1,400 pigs per day in CO2 gas chambers, supplies pork to brands including Jolly Hog sold at Tesco, Co-op, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons, Asda and Lidl.
>Some of Tesco’s own-brand pork products are also slaughtered at this abattoir.
>The abattoir is also part of the Red Tractor and RSPCA Assured schemes.
I wish food production was taught in schools so people can learn to make informed choices about their (invisible? hidden?) impact on animals.
There are so many people here on their high horse telling others not to support animal cruelty whilst they scroll reddit on a phone produced by people working in horrific conditions
Not opening that link, but surely excessive force is better than insufficient force when it comes to abattoirs.
People always claim to get their meat from “humane farms”, but then gloss over the fact that they all end up in the same slaughterhouses.
It’s completely barbaric and caveman-like behaviour to still be doing this to highly sentient beings in this day and age.
I’ll start this by saying I’m a meat eater, but only a couple of times a week and generally only from farm shops locally sourced. Appreciating that I am very fortunate to be able to do that and under no illusion that the animals still are killed.
I went round a very large pig abattoir earlier this year and saw everything but the killing (I saw the immediate aftermath). All I can say is mass scale industrialised ‘processing’ is absolutely shocking to witness. There are images i will never get out of my head and aromas I can still smell.
The problem is without alternative products available at the same price point or lower, with the same nutritional qualities and consumer acceptance, it’s not going to change anytime soon.
Once again tapping my “high welfare meat production is not possible at prices paid by British consumers” sign.
How much force do you use when chopping up your rabbit food!
Meat is violence. If you are against violence, particularly violence against animals, stop funding it and go vegan.
It is extremely easy these days, vegan food is literally everywhere and you will never feel like you’re missing out. Most importantly, once you’re vegan, you will stop funding hellholes like this one.
Just stop buying meat. There is no such thing as ethical murder.
Well done lads looks like we got the 1 bad actor (again).
You’d be surprised that all farms and abattoirs are like this. Even the ones making all the big claims and certifications with buzzwords like “welfare”, “humane”, “free range”.
There’s some that haven’t been caught or hide their practices at inspections.
Having worked in an abattoir I say this. No one wanted to work there they were all trying to make ends meet and the job was a means to an end. The training is minimal and profit margins are thin.
So unfortunately animals are killed by people who don’t care especially when you have to slaughter 200 head in eight hours and try to make sure the suffering is minimal. So it goes. Zap, still conscious zap stunned, pop dead, zap still conscious zap still conscious pop killed while conscious.
It’s a shit position to be in I wish meat was banned due to the cruel way it’s produced. I’ve been vegetarian since doing six months in a slaughter house. I cut the carcasses in two so they could be processed.
Horrible of course but not surprising. Massive demand for meat and dairy isn’t there and people want things cheap. Horrendous how animals are treated and as a vegetarian I have loads of respect for vegans ..apparently vegetarianism is pretty much as bad as eating meat as you support dairy and eggs and stuff which are horrendously cruel.
I used to be vegan but went back to meat eating. I’m still aware that morally it is impossible to advocate for. I went back to meat eating for mental health reasons but appreciate that is shaky ground.
Once lab meat comes in I’ll likely go back to veganism, but I can’t rule out doing so earlier.
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Best reading the full article or watching [the accompanying video report for this investigation ](https://youtu.be/Eqa2F5ie6C8). The Mirror headline really undersells the horrific state of what happens
This will be downvoted but it genuinely shocks me how most people seem to be completely fine with shutting their eyes to the horrors that happen. As long as they can keep eating burgers, they don’t care that living creatures suffer horrific lives. I just don’t see how anyone can take that approach and consider themselves to be a moral person.
In Suffolk:
>Animal Justice Project filmed undercover footage inside C&K Meats — a facility slaughtering both intensively-reared and free-range pigs – over several days.
>This abattoir, which has the capacity to kill around 1,200 to 1,400 pigs per day in CO2 gas chambers, supplies pork to brands including Jolly Hog sold at Tesco, Co-op, Aldi, Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Morrisons, Asda and Lidl.
>Some of Tesco’s own-brand pork products are also slaughtered at this abattoir.
>The abattoir is also part of the Red Tractor and RSPCA Assured schemes.
I wish food production was taught in schools so people can learn to make informed choices about their (invisible? hidden?) impact on animals.
There are so many people here on their high horse telling others not to support animal cruelty whilst they scroll reddit on a phone produced by people working in horrific conditions
Not opening that link, but surely excessive force is better than insufficient force when it comes to abattoirs.
People always claim to get their meat from “humane farms”, but then gloss over the fact that they all end up in the same slaughterhouses.
It’s completely barbaric and caveman-like behaviour to still be doing this to highly sentient beings in this day and age.
I’ll start this by saying I’m a meat eater, but only a couple of times a week and generally only from farm shops locally sourced. Appreciating that I am very fortunate to be able to do that and under no illusion that the animals still are killed.
I went round a very large pig abattoir earlier this year and saw everything but the killing (I saw the immediate aftermath). All I can say is mass scale industrialised ‘processing’ is absolutely shocking to witness. There are images i will never get out of my head and aromas I can still smell.
The problem is without alternative products available at the same price point or lower, with the same nutritional qualities and consumer acceptance, it’s not going to change anytime soon.
Once again tapping my “high welfare meat production is not possible at prices paid by British consumers” sign.
https://action.worldanimalprotection.org.uk/sign-our-petition-call-end-factory-farming
How much force do you use when chopping up your rabbit food!
Meat is violence. If you are against violence, particularly violence against animals, stop funding it and go vegan.
It is extremely easy these days, vegan food is literally everywhere and you will never feel like you’re missing out. Most importantly, once you’re vegan, you will stop funding hellholes like this one.
Just stop buying meat. There is no such thing as ethical murder.
Well done lads looks like we got the 1 bad actor (again).
You’d be surprised that all farms and abattoirs are like this. Even the ones making all the big claims and certifications with buzzwords like “welfare”, “humane”, “free range”.
There’s some that haven’t been caught or hide their practices at inspections.
Having worked in an abattoir I say this. No one wanted to work there they were all trying to make ends meet and the job was a means to an end. The training is minimal and profit margins are thin.
So unfortunately animals are killed by people who don’t care especially when you have to slaughter 200 head in eight hours and try to make sure the suffering is minimal. So it goes. Zap, still conscious zap stunned, pop dead, zap still conscious zap still conscious pop killed while conscious.
It’s a shit position to be in I wish meat was banned due to the cruel way it’s produced. I’ve been vegetarian since doing six months in a slaughter house. I cut the carcasses in two so they could be processed.
Horrible of course but not surprising. Massive demand for meat and dairy isn’t there and people want things cheap. Horrendous how animals are treated and as a vegetarian I have loads of respect for vegans ..apparently vegetarianism is pretty much as bad as eating meat as you support dairy and eggs and stuff which are horrendously cruel.
I used to be vegan but went back to meat eating. I’m still aware that morally it is impossible to advocate for. I went back to meat eating for mental health reasons but appreciate that is shaky ground.
Once lab meat comes in I’ll likely go back to veganism, but I can’t rule out doing so earlier.