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Pictures from JV Richards
Posted 25 August 2009
These images are screen grabs from undercover footage taken at JV Richards in Truro, Cornwall
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Calves
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| Two calves watch a third being stunned |
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| Stun operator stands on a calf to keep him still |
Pigs
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| A pig who fell from the slaughter line into the blood pit is re-shackled and hoisted, while other pigs look on |
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| A pig climbs the door of the stun room to try to escape |
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| A worker casually kicks the last remaining pig to be stunned |
Sheep
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| A sheep waits in lairage |
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| The stun room is crowded with sheep |
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| The last remaining sheep of a group faces the electric stun |
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| A sheep meets the knife |
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| A sheep too sick to stand – or possibly already dead – is brought to the stun room |
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| The stun operator approaches |
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| The sheep is stunned... |
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| and her body raised on the hoist so a worker can cut her throat |
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