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    Tesco suspends pig supplier after footage of ‘abysmal conditions’
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    Tesco suspends pig supplier after footage of ‘abysmal conditions’

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    6. HawkAsAWeapon on

      Every animal farm that has secret cameras recording them exposes the same cruelty every time. It’s time to stop pretending farming living sentient beings is in any way ever “humane”. You can’t do the wrong thing the right way.

    7. gin0clock on

      Problem is that this particular supplier has been caught. I’d bet my life that this happens at every major animal processing facility. The staff probably have to become numb to the cruelty of it all and either because of that and probably contribute to the abuse as a result of their own trauma from being a cog in a machine of mass murder.

    8. TopRace7827 on

      Every single time these posts come up the comment section is vegetarians and non vegetarians being insufferable pricks to each other.

      You don’t eat meat that’s cool. We don’t need to know.

      You do eat meat, whatever also cool, no need to be some edge lord repeating the same silly tropes on every post.

    9. eionmac on

      As a young boy on a farm, we had to invite the local constable to attend when we killed pigs. Farm killed were pigs for our own consumption. We had to completely knock out the pig, usually with a single heavy hammer (sledge hammer) blow to back of head. Pig fell unconscious. Then lifted by hind legs and throat cut to bleed out in a few minutes to death. No visible pain throbs or trauma. (Injured pigs when hurt on head do a lot of aggravation, fight you with head and feet, so you well know the difference.) Constable made a report in local station records. Sick or Injured animals however were always killed by attending vet, as they did not enter the food chain.

    10. meatbaghk47 on

      I’m confused. This is just how industrialised farming works.

      People scoff their fat greedy faces with pig and cow and chicken carcass and throw half of it in the bin every day.

      Unsure why Tesco would draw a line on this.

    11. BurtonTrench on

      I feel like any adult capable of rational, critical thinking would acknowledge that the UK’s (and the rest of the world’s) current approach to animal agriculture is unsustainable in the long term and inherently cruel.

      You can slap as many red tractors and whatever other logos on packaging as you like, doesn’t make the process any less grim for everyone involved.

    12. Happytallperson on

      The fundamental reality of the British Food Supply chain is you cannot produce meat at the prices it is sold in British supermarkets whilst maintaining the sort of conditions that people like to believe the animals they eat are reared in. Unless you are willing to pay for higher welfare products, this is what you are eating.

      Now I don’t make a judgement on that. If your moral compass is that meat consumption is OK and you don’t mind how it is produced, that is a judgement for you to make. I am genuinely not fussed.

      However, what I do dislike is the way we pretend to be shocked at the standards animals are reared in when producing a whole chicken for £4.10, or buying eggs at a price that implies chickens being supported on 10p a day, or an animal the size of a cow for less than £1 a day. People need to be honest about what they do.

    13. mana-milk on

      Tesco will just move onto the next supplier until that one gets hit with a scandal too, at which point they’ll just move onto the next, rinse and repeat. 

      When are people going to learn that you cannot have cruelty free animal products under capitalism.

    16. let-the-boy-cook on

      If you can’t afford to go to a local butcher or farm shop for your meats, you shouldn’t be eating meat tbh.

    17. KeyLog256 on

      1. This is just unlucky enough to have been leaked. If you think any animal factory (and they are factories, this isn’t a petting zoo) is any better than this, you’re in for a shock.

      2. If you give the slightest shit about this, and aren’t a vegan, then I’d probably reconsider.

    18. M56012C on

      And in a month or so when everyone’s forgotten they’ll contract them again maybe through a shell company. So nothing adhieved, well done on wastkng everyone’s time.

    19. mturner1993 on

      Pork is the only meat I do not consume, at all and haven’t for years. Namely because this sort of shit is getting so common and it’s awful to see.

      If this was your job how the fuck do you live with yourself

    20. Postviral on

      Now if they could just stop selling animal products completely that would be great.

    21. Youknowkitties on

      I know nobody likes a vegan. I didn’t used to like them. Then a year ago I found out what happens to animals in the meat and dairy industries and I went vegan overnight. I wasn’t even vegetarian before.

      The thing that surprised me most was how easy it was – everywhere is set up for vegans these days. I haven’t missed out on anything, every pub, cafe and restaurant I’ve been to had vegan options, supermarkets have every kind of vegan meat you can think of, I’ve made vegan food for people, people have made it for me.

      So yes, going vegan is easy. And you can cut all ties with the appalling meat and dairy industries forever.  

    22. Youknowkitties on

      The uncomfortable truth is, if we buy pork products, in supermarkets or restaurants, we are paying these farmers to treat these pigs this way. We are literally funding animal cruelty.

      If we stop eating meat, they’ll stop killing animals.

    23. Cheap_Answer5746 on

      Never understood why we don’t eat roadkill if I’m honest or woodpigeon. Or the deer that are invasive.
      Never understood why so. Many invasive animals are not eaten like camels in Australia or rabbits