Extreme violence and neglect uncovered on a UK dairy farm
Covert filming by an Animal Equality investigator has revealed disturbing undercover footage of deliberate violence and neglect on Madox Farm, a large dairy farm in Carmarthenshire, South Wales. The troubling scenes include workers kicking and punching cows in the face and stomach, and hitting them with metal shovels. The footage was broadcast to millions of people on BBC One’s Panorama. Milk from the farm is supplied to Freshways, the UK’s largest independent dairy processor and wholesaler. Freshways distributes dairy products to established retailers and businesses including Costa Coffee, British Airways, Londis, Budgens and P&O Cruises.
The True Cost of Milk: Our Footage On BBC Panorama
15/02/2022
Madox Farm: What We Found
Animal Equality’s investigator worked undercover on Madox Farm for several months and documented troubling scenes of abuse and neglect, including a number of serious legal violations.
The footage reveals workers punching and kicking cows in the face and stomach, as well as hitting them with sharp, metal shovels. It also shows cows unable to stand being hoisted by their hips with a lift and dragged against the cold concrete floor.
But that’s not all that our cameras documented. Listed below are the main problems we found on the farm, which unfortunately are widespread in the dairy industry. …….
A groundbreaking investigation by Animal Equality has exposed widespread cruelty and blatant illegalities in the goat meat industry across Maharashtra, Uttar Pradesh, Jharkhand and Bihar. The organization documented horrific conditions in 7 farms, 5 markets, and 4 slaughter facilities, revealing the appalling suffering inflicted on goats at every stage of their lives.
Every year again we witness the impossible, in Christian countries, the result of a Faith gone utterly wrong. The lamb, the very symbol of Innocence and of Jesus Christ, being subjected to a level of cruelty, and in huge numbers, that defies understanding.
After all …
So much for wishful thinking, and quite possibly the Lord’s own thoughts on the issue, and man’s relationship with these defenceless creatures, and indeed all of the Animal Kingdom.
And THIS is the reality … year after year after year.
Investigation documents cruelty at UK sheep slaughterhouse
November 4, 2019 Updated: January 20, 2025
Animal Equality UK has released a new investigation filmed inside a sheep slaughterhouse. The disturbing recordings, filmed during July and August 2019 at Farmers Fresh Wales slaughterhouse in Wrexham, North Wales, detail unimaginable cruelty and immense suffering. Farmers Fresh Wales supplies customers in London and across the Midlands, as well as continental Europe. …..
Instead of sitting down to a family dinner over the holidays, Animal Equality investigators were on the road, documenting the suffering of lambs transported from Eastern Europe to Italy for slaughter.
Every Christmas and Easter, Animal Equality documents the long and difficult journeys that lambs undergo from Eastern Europe to Italian slaughterhouses. These lambs, many only weeks old, end up on the tables of millions of Italians during the holidays.
Transport: The Investigators’ Daily Journal
Although the transport trucks tend to follow predictable routes, it’s not always easy to map their movements. We located and followed some trucks, being careful not to lose them while we gathered as much information as possible.
Shocking cruelty in lamb industry revealed once again
Animal Equality launches it’s ‘Save a Lamb’ campaign with a video that shows the cruelty lambs suffer in modern farms and slaughterhouses.
March 23, 2015 Updated: February 24, 2025
International – Through the release of a new video showing the life of a lamb in 60 seconds, Animal Equality launched on Saturday, March 22nd it’s 2015 ‘Save a Lamb’ campaign.
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The video was filmed entirely by Animal Equality undercover investigators in farms and slaughterhouses in Italy. The practices shown in the footage are standard and common practice in the meat industry. ….
Underwater factory farms are one of the biggest causes of suffering on the planet. Forcing billions of fishes to spend their lives swimming in endless circles in cages before suffering inhumane and painful deaths. We call on the European Commission to include the protection of fish welfare among the priority objectives of the revision of the EU legislation on animal welfare.
The new investigation
A new investigation by Essere Animali reveals the shortcomings of the current European Union legislation on animal welfare, which clearly fails to guarantee the protection of farmed fish. The shocking images filmed during the investigation — which was conducted at several trout farms as well as a few sea bass and sea bream farms — reveal farming, transport and slaughter practices that cause enormous suffering to the animals.
By releasing this investigation, Essere Animali joins and relaunches the Compassion in World Farming campaign, aimed at asking the European Commission to include the protection of fish welfare among the priority objectives of the revision of the EU legislation on animal welfare.
From cage to fur farming and fish welfare, key animal welfare concerns are being addressed very differently across the EU’s 27 Member States.
In this report, we break down the steps that different countries in the EU are taking on a range of animal welfare issues – or lack thereof. The stark differences in their approaches highlights the critical need for the EU to publish its long-awaited revision to the animal welfare legislation, which has not been updated for decades, and which is not sufficiently protecting the wellbeing of animals across Europe.
Only by modernising and strengthening these laws will the EU be able to effectively harmonise the approaches of all Member States to animal welfare: improving the lives of billions of sentient beings, easing compliance for farmers, ensuring fair competition, and aligning agriculture with its sustainability and resilience goals.
A new set of figures showing the scale of suspected illegal fox hunting and the havoc being inflicted on rural communities by fox hunts has been released today by national animal welfare charity the League Against Cruel Sports.
Nearly 1,600 incidents – consisting of 474 reports relating to suspected illegal hunting, which include 397 reports of foxes being chased, and 1,117 reports of hunt havoc – were recorded in the League’s end of season fox hunting report.
Emma Judd, head of campaigns at the League Against Cruel Sports, said: “These shocking figures underline why the government has announced it will launch a consultation to ban trail hunting later this year, something we are urging them to publish without delay.
“But, more than that, the Hunting Act also needs to be strengthened by removing its loopholes, which are exploited by hunts to avoid prosecution for illegal hunting, and for custodial sentences to be introduced for those who persist in breaking the law.”
The League’s figures reveal that the west of England was a particular fox hunting hot spot, with Gloucestershire, Dorset and Somerset recording the highest figures of all the counties in England and Wales.
Dorset and Somerset’s Blackmore and Sparkford Vale Hunt, four members of which were convicted of illegal hunting this week, was the worst offending hunt in the country – with 61 reports relating to suspected illegal hunting, including 48 reports of foxes being chased and 83 reports of hunt havoc.
The Warwickshire Hunt, a member of which was convicted of illegal hunting last month after the court dismissed his claim that the hunt was following a trail, was also one of the worst offending hunts, with reports of the hunt chasing 20 foxes.
The figures cover the cub hunting season, which began in August, and then the main fox hunting season, from November 2024 to the end of March 2025.
The havoc caused by hunts includes anti-social behaviour and activities inconsistent with trail hunting, the discredited excuse used by hunts since the fox hunting ban in which they claim to claim to follow pre-laid trails.
These activities included hounds being struck on a busy road or railway line where no trail would have been laid, digging up badger setts to get to foxes that have fled underground, trespass – including in people’s private gardens – and causing harm or distress to other animals, such as family pets.
Trail hunting has been described by Temporary Assistant Chief Constable Matt Longman, the national lead on fox hunting crime, as a “smokescreen for illegal fox hunting”. He has also described illegal hunting as “prolific”.
The figures are compiled from the charity’s confidential Animal Crimewatch service and hunt monitors’ reports by the League’s intelligence team, which is staffed by former police officers and civilian analysts.
Emma added: “These figures show the fox hunts have an appalling disregard for the law and are chasing and killing foxes as they did before the ban and inflicting misery on rural communities.
“The time for change is now. New stronger fox hunting laws are needed to consign this barbaric activity to the history books.”
Members of the public can contact the League’s Animal Crimewatch service on 0300 444 1234, email crimewatch@league.org.uk or WhatsApp at 0755 278 8247.
New statistics show the scale of suspected illegal fox hunting which took place over the latest fox hunting season – including hundreds of foxes seen being chased – and how urgent it is for the ban on hunting with dogs to be strengthened.
The government has announced that it will launch a consultation on banning trail hunting later this year. This is welcome and must happen soon.
But if we are to stop illegal hunting for good, the plans must go further and include removing exemptions in the law and introducing prison sentences for those who would break the law.
Please contact your MP and tell them it’s time for change. Ask them to write to the Environment Secretary to urge him to act quickly to close all the loopholes in the hunting ban.
Published: April 11, 2025 at 02:10 PM Author: PENNY EIMS
Live Oak, FL – On March 31, Eric Ivan Roldan viciously attacked a young puppy, causing severe injuries. The Live Oak Police Department said they were contacted by Jenny Lynn Mayes with an animal abuse complaint; responding officers found Mayes holding a bloodied, injured, 10-week-old puppy.
The authorities described the pup’s injuries, writing:
Officers observed the puppy had several cuts around her ear, swollen eyes, and blood coming from her nose and ears.
Describing the severe injuries found at a local veterinary hospital:
Officers later transported Mayes and the puppy to a local veterinarian where she was assessed, treated, and determined to have a skull fracture and severe swelling around the head and skull. The puppy was in obvious physical distress and pain as she yelped each time she was touched or moved.
Mayes told officers that 45-year-old Eric Ivan Roldan was responsible for the puppy’s injuries.
In her statement to law enforcement, she described Roldan wrapping the puppy in a blanket and then simultaneously kicking, stomping and slamming the puppy against the ground. The blanket, which had obvious blood stains on it, was observed on scene and photographed.
This tiny, 10-pound puppy suffered horrific injuries because of Roldan’s violent behavior. This grown man brutalized a tiny, innocent puppy – it is quite literally a miracle that she is alive today.
If you are disgusted by this vile man’s actions, please add your name to the petition and help Animal Victory hold him accountable for the pain and suffering he inflicted on this young puppy!
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UPDATE: MEDICAL CONDITION OF PUPPY “Sweet Pea”
The puppy, dubbed Sweet Pea, has been taken under the wing of the Livin’ Like Larry Sanctuary, and is receiving care from Oviedo Veterinary Hospital. On 4/11/25, the organization let social media followers know that Sweet Pea underwent surgery to repair her fractured skull. She made it through surgery and is stable! A portion of the update following surgery:
Mesh over skull pieces to hold everything into place while it heals. +/- removal of mesh depending on if it becomes an issue later. Will monitor with CT scans on a routine basis through the next several months. Was able to flip large part of displaced skull back which Is great! They removed piece that had died, then left a small fragment out of place bc it had adhered to her brain and removing it was too risky. Flushed brain due to some pus. Not unexpected. Sending out culture and sensitivity to lab to ensure right antibiotics on board.
SULALA is one of the very few organisations in the area providing urgent support and care to the animals trapped in this horrific conflict – and let us say openly here: Outright Genocide of the Palestinian People by Israel! – and is in dire need of funds to carry on doing so.
Once again, however, they are, as are many who work on the “wrong side” of this issue (especially in the US these days), targeted by anti-Palestinian sentiment. This recent development with “GoFundMe” seems even more proof of that.
URGENT GLOBAL OUTCRY: END CRUEL LIFELONG TETHERING AND THE HORRIFIC, REPEATED DEATHS OF DOGS IN YOUR SISTER PROVINCE OF CHUNGCHEONGNAM DURING WILDFIRES
World Animals Voice 