RE: DISGUSTING COMPANY12 May 2025 11:13
Cranswick shares tumble after Lincolnshire pig farm cruelty claims
Back in the City, shares in UK meat producer Cranswick have tumbled after Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Asda and Morrisons all suspended supplies from a Lincolnshire pig farm linked to abuse against pigs.
Cranswick is the biggest faller on the FTSE 250 index of medium-sized companies, down 7.5%.
My colleague Sarah Butler reported yesterday:
Secretly filmed footage has shown farm workers at Northmoor Farm appearing to grab piglets by their hind legs and smashing them on to the hard floor – a banned method of killing known as blunt force trauma or “piglet thumping”.
Other harrowing footage from the farm owned by one of the UK’s biggest pig meat producers, Cranswick, showed a sow being kicked and beaten with metal bars, as well as a botched killing that left an animal writhing in agony, as first reported by the Mail on Sunday.
One worker who failed to kill a sow with several shots from a bolt gun, reportedly told an undercover investigator: “Don’t let nobody see you doing like what we did [sic].”