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Pictures from AC Hopkins
Posted 25 August 2009
These images are screen grabs from undercover footage taken at AC Hopkins in Taunton, Somerset
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Sheep
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| A baby lamb suckling from her mother |
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| Her mother is stunned while she is still suckling |
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| A lamb tries to escape the slaughterer by climbing into the tong bucket |
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| The stun room is full of sheep |
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| A sheep watches a felled mate |
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| A stunned sheep is left on the floor while the slaughterer cuts the throat of another |
Pigs
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| Pigs huddling together in the lairage area |
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| One pig nuzzles another in the stun room |
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| A pig is stunned |
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| A pig is goaded into place using the electric tongs |
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| A pig lies screaming on the floor after inadequate stunning |
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| The slaughterer stands on a stunned pig to retrieve a chain from the hoist |
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