Undercover investigation at AC Hopkins, Somerset

Posted on the 25th August 2009

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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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