The conditions were the worst yet seen within the EU.
Compassion’s investigation unit identified multiple levels of cruelty, neglect and systematic non-compliance. A member of the investigation unit said: “Never have I seen pigs so dirty, covered in their own excrement and pens so filthy. Some pens were covered in faeces and the pigs had nowhere to escape from it.
“On a separate farm, pigs resorted to biting dead pigs and using them as playthings, as they had nothing else to occupy them.”
Compassion’s chief policy advisor Peter Stevenson has written to the Irish Minister, Simon Coveney.
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