Yesterday, retailers banned supply of Britain’s largest pork producer due to accusations of animal abuse, wiping off more than £250 million from the company’s value.
Early trading saw Cranswick’s shares drop as much as 9%, bringing its market capitalization down to £2.6 billion from £263 million.
Following The Mail’s Sunday acquisition of classified recordings purportedly revealing ‘a horrible chronicle of animal abuse carried out by sadistic workers’ at its Northmoor Farm in Lincolnshire, the decline occurred.
A farm worker snatches a shrieking piglet by its hind legs, flips it above his head, and slams it to the ground in what the newspaper called “one sickening scene.”
‘Piglet thumping’ is a prohibited way of killing that is illegal. According to the article, piglets that are the runts of the litter and do not grow quickly enough to be marketable are murdered.
Other horrifying film depicts terrible bungled killings that left animals writhing in agony, as well as defenseless sows being kicked and battered with metal rods.
