These 23 Photos Prove the Meat Industry Doesn’t Care About Animals

Julie Cappiello July 27, 2017
These 23 stills from our undercover investigations prove the meat industry couldn’t care less about animals. Have a look:

1. A worker ripping off a chicken’s limbs while the bird is fully conscious


2. A piglet who has just been tail docked and castrated without painkillers


3. Piglets crammed together with little space to move


4. A calf crammed in a wooden crate


5. A worker pulling a trapped chicken from under a crate, ripping the bird’s leg off in the process


6. A mother pig chewing the bars of her tiny crate from years of boredom


7. A dying pig being dragged while bleeding out


8. A pig being kicked in the face

9. A worker mimicking sex acts with a chicken
10. A cow being hit with a sledgehammer
11. A pig tied up and left to die in a puddle of blood
12. A dead chicken with hardly any intact feathers left to rot
13. A worker shoving a metal pipe down a duck’s throat to produce foie gras
14. A calf bludgeoned to death with a pickax
15. A catfish being skinned alive
16. A piglet with an untreated eye infection
17. A piglet sitting in blood
18. A duck left bloody in a small cage
19. A dead piglet covered in waste left to rot
20. A pig with a severe rectal prolapse
21. A bloodied turkey collapsed on the floor
22. Workers throwing chickens into transport cages
23. A duck with a severe open wound

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