An article in the Times newspaper today (December 31), reports a series of shocking incidents at a slaughterhouse in Suffolk, which resulted in 81 chickens being put into a scalding tank while still alive, and...
Posted 31 Dec 2016
Carrying photographs of turkeys and banners which read “Stop the Slaughter”, forty campaigners from Animal Aid and the Save Movement held a peaceful vigil outside the Bernard Matthews abattoir in Great Witchingham, Norwich.
Posted 16 Dec 2016
Political pressure is growing for the government to bring forward measures to ensure the use of independently-monitored CCTV becomes mandatory in slaughterhouses, in an effort to combat unlawful animal cruelty.
Posted 30 Nov 2016
The Scottish National Party has passed a policy motion at its conference to back compulsory CCTV in slaughterhouses, in an effort to combat unlawful animal cruelty.
Posted 14 Oct 2016
A district judge ruled on 9 September that the Bowood Slaughterhouse case has run out of time. The court was told that there was a delay of almost a year between the Food Standards Agency...
Posted 10 Sep 2016
Reports released to the Bureau of Investigative Journalism have revealed that more than 4,000 severe breaches of animal welfare regulations took place in UK slaughterhouses over the past two years. The shocking incidents detailed in...
Posted 30 Aug 2016
A report published today (19 August), by a team of independent experts headed by Sheffield Hallam University Professor Ian Rotherham, finds that the cost of independent monitoring of CCTV inside England's slaughterhouses is likely to...
Posted 19 Aug 2016
The Times today (12 May 2016), has revealed that more than 30 abattoirs in the UK are denying government officials access to CCTV footage of animals being slaughtered. CCTV is vital in bringing prosecutions against...
Posted 12 May 2016
The two former owners of Bowood Yorkshire Lamb slaughterhouse in Thirsk, North Yorkshire, are understood to have been charged with animal cruelty offences, together with three slaughtermen who worked at the abattoir.
Posted 16 Mar 2016
The day when slaughterhouses will be compelled to fit independently-monitored CCTV cameras has moved a step closer this week, as Jim Cunningham became the hundredth MP to have signed a parliamentary motion in support of...
Posted 15 Oct 2015