Calls for legal action after ‘unimaginable suffering’ filmed at Devon pig farm
by Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent from Environment | The Guardian on (#6K7WN)
Undercover crew finds cannibalism, untreated wounds and cramped and filthy conditions at Cross Farm
- Warning: this article contains some graphic images
Undercover footage of pigs at a Devon farm showing them exposed to unimaginable suffering" has prompted calls for legal action against the owners.
The film crew said the video of pigs being kept in filthy, cramped conditions - featuring instances of cannibalism and malnourishment, as well as animals with untreated, bleeding wounds and hernias - was filmed at Cross Farm in Holsworthy, owned by WJ Watkins and Son.
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