Undercover investigation at AC Hopkins, Somerset

Posted on the 25th August 2009

Insert video from AC Hopkins

 

The images below are screen grabs from undercover footage taken at AC Hopkins in Taunton, Somerset. Contact us for higher resolution versions.

A baby lamb suckling from her mother
Her mother is stunned while she is still suckling
A lamb tries to escape the slaughterer by climbing into the tong bucket
The stun room is full of sheep
A sheep watches a felled mate
AC Hopkins
Pigs huddling together in the lairage area
One pig nuzzles another in the stun room
A pig is stunned
A pig is goaded into place using the electric tongs
A pig lies screaming on the floor after inadequate stunning
The slaughterer stands on a stunned pig to retrieve a chain from the hoist
 
A baby lamb suckling from her mother
Her mother is stunned while she is still suckling
A lamb tries to escape the slaughterer by climbing into the tong bucket
The stun room is full of sheep
A sheep watches a felled mate
AC Hopkins
Pigs huddling together in the lairage area
One pig nuzzles another in the stun room
A pig is stunned
A pig is goaded into place using the electric tongs
A pig lies screaming on the floor after inadequate stunning
The slaughterer stands on a stunned pig to retrieve a chain from the hoist

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