Animal Equality has simply uncovered acts of cruelty dedicated in opposition to pigs on the twenty second slaughterhouse investigated in Mexico, this time on the Rastro Municipal Regional in Tizayuca, Hidalgo.
ILLEGAL ANIMAL ABUSE: In complete non-compliance with minimal animal welfare requirements, the photographs recorded by the investigators reveal:
- Operators dealing with the animals with brutality and violence, kicking and beating them with rods
- Pigs weighing greater than 200 kilos lifted by considered one of their limbs whereas acutely aware, inflicting ligament compression and tears
- Animals with out prior beautiful being lifted and killed
- Alarming hygienic circumstances as pigs are stored amidst blood, feces and organs
- Pigs with their throats slit and bled to loss of life whereas totally acutely aware, inflicting excessive panic and struggling
- Pigs nonetheless acutely aware earlier than being thrown into the scalding tank
The dealing with course of earlier than and through slaughter noticed on this slaughterhouse undermines animal welfare and goes in opposition to the suggestions of the World Organization for Animal Health, as they trigger animal struggling (OIE, 2021).
EXPERTS SAY: “The poor administration noticed is as a result of poor design of the slaughterhouse, lack of apparatus, and lack of workers coaching. All these components threaten animal and operator welfare, with potential detrimental results on public well being.” – Dr. Giuliana Miguel-Pacheco, Animal Welfare professional
PREVENTABLE SUFFERING: After a lifetime of deprivation and mistreatment on the farms the place they’re raised, animals arrive at slaughterhouses terrified. Their deaths are usually not with out struggling: when operators don’t adjust to present rules, it’s unimaginable for them to ensure the minimal welfare requirements that scale back their struggling.
These merciless and unlawful circumstances are usually not an exception, however widespread within the business, as could be seen on this and other Animal Equality investigations.
WHAT WE’RE SAYING: “This isn’t only one slaughterhouse with unhealthy practices, however an business rotten to the core. The rising physique of proof we at Animal Equality have uncovered over time is a damning indictment in opposition to this merciless business.” – Dulce Ramirez, Director of Animal Equality in Mexico
CALLS FOR CHARGES: With the footage compiled by our investigators, we filed three complaints with the right authorities: the Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Improvement of the Authorities of Mexico, the State Legal professional’s Workplace for Environmental Safety of the Authorities of Hidalgo, and the Ministry of Well being of the Authorities of Hidalgo, demanding that the acts of cruelty be sanctioned and eradicated.
HOW YOU CAN HELP: Please share the investigation to assist us enhance its attain and affect. And please, depart animals off your plate.
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