Christopher Shoebridge

The role of vets in illegal Tail Docking — Animal Law Foundation The law states that pigs can only have tails docked as a last resort after environmental improvements have been made and only when authorised by a vet, but data reveals that this painful procedure is ...

4/4 Link here:

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3/4 In some Red Tractor-assured factory farms I've found hundreds of severed piglet tails littering the floor. For a cruel practice that's supposed to be banned, it's surprisingly commonplace.

[Images: Christopher Shoebridge / Generation Vegan]

2/4 The tail is sensitive, containing many nerve endings, blood vessels and vertebrae.

Shockingly, routine docking has been banned in the UK for almost twenty years, yet more than 70% of pigs farmed here, and perhaps as many as 85%, are mutilated in this way. It's a scandal.

1/4 I'm honoured that The Animal Law Foundation has chosen to feature some of my undercover visuals in their latest report on tail-docking in the UK.

Docking is a brutal procedure in which piglets have their tails chopped off without pain relief.

Many humans have lost the ability to recognise intrinsic value.

Personally, I have come to regard this as a kind of mass psychosis: the inability to distinguish between what is real (trees, oceans, beauty, love, etc.) and what is imagined (money, shareholder value, GDP, etc.).

Most men, when having a mid-life crisis, buy a Porsche. Elon Musk bought an election.

Billionaires shouldn’t exist.

"Putin is fighting not to conquer Pokrovsk but to destroy Ukraine as a nation. He wants to show Russians that democratic aspirations are hopeless. He wants to prove that a whole host of international laws and norms, including the United Nations Charter and the Geneva conventions, no longer matter"

At this point it’s been said in a hundred different ways, so I think people are being intentional about not getting it.

Thank you so much, Cherry, and right back at you.

People are often surprised when I tell them this: both Twitter and Facebook/insta/threads are now specifically engineered to downgrade, hide, suppress real journalism. If this platform is different, that's a huge change

You have super-sleuth magic clothes-hunting powers!

That top is amazing!

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Congratulations to Director Iain Green and the whole team. The future's bright, and hopeful, because of people like you.

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All of the work I've done for animals since then - 15 years of filmmaking, photography and investigations - is a direct result of Animal Aid's campaigning. And I was reminded last night how grateful I am that this organisation exists in the world.

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I think that gives you a sense of how much impact they've been having recently.

But they also hold an extremely special place in my heart - it was their UK slaughterhouse investigation in 2009 which shocked me out of complacency and changed the trajectory of my life.

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as well as an overview of some recent campaign victories and glimpses of what I know will be an ambitious and successful 2025 for this extraordinary organisation.

This year, Animal Aid won the prestigious LUSH prize for their campaign to ban animal testing.

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Last night my partner and I were honoured to be invited to Animal Aid's celebration event at the wonderful Studio Gauthier in Soho.

We were treated to moving speeches from Animal Aid's patrons, Carol Royle and Wendy Turner Webster,

Thanks Jenny!

This sounds interesting! How aggravating would you say this is, for someone a little weary of politics?

Believing that everyone except you and your sycophants is trapped in an ideological prison is pretty compelling evidence that you’ve become trapped in an ideological prison.

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The most cutest rabbits on Earth.

Mia (right), grants the wishes of the worthy from a backlit glade deep in the woods, and Chester (left), peddles dandy ginger slacks on the back streets of London.

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I hope so, too. Giving KFC awards for a pledge they’ve now dropped seems somewhat grotesque, in hindsight.

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I hope consumers are wising up to the fact that you cannot rely on meat companies to care about animal welfare. You have to do that caring yourself, and make choices which reflect your values.

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with sow crates, with caged hens, and with so many of the routine mutilations that animals endure on farms.

Promises made, kudos received, promises broken. Every time.

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It's about winning back conscientious consumers with false promises and projecting a positive, caring image at odds with the reality of meat production. It's a lie. And it's happened so many times over the years that I've lost count:

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2. Enjoy the marketing boost of great PR and increased sales;

3. Delay, obstruct, or eventually drop the improvements entirely, when you think everyone's forgotten.

It's called welfare-washing.

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The photo above is from that investigation.

And sadly, to anyone familiar with how these companies operate, this broken promise won't come as a surprise. It's the meat industry playbook:

1. Make grand promises about improvements to animal welfare;

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Meat bought at KFC will continue to come from factory-farmed chickens who grow so fast that their legs sometimes break under their own weight. This is an issue I witnessed with my own eyes, when Matthew Glover and I investigated KFC's supposed 'higher welfare' farm a couple of years ago.

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KFC UK & Ireland's flagship welfare promise has been DROPPED.

KFC have ditched their "Better Chicken Commitment" pledge, for which they've been receiving kudos and plaudits since 2019, and off the back of which they've launched five years of marketing campaigns.