Supermarkets halt supplies from Lincolnshire pig farm over animal abuse footage

Animal Justice Project claimed workers at Somerby Top Farm in Lincolnshire routinely ‘hit pigs with boards, paddles and their fists, deliberately targeting areas such as their snout and eyes’. Photograph: Animal Justice Project

Three of the UK’s biggest supermarkets have suspended supplies from a Lincolnshire pig farm after footage filmed covertly by an animal rights organisation appeared to show workers kicking piglets and hitting them with boards and paddles.

The footage also suggested the injured pigs with open wounds were packed into pens covered in faeces, with some left lame and writhing in pain.