Who Is There To Stop Animal Abuse?

The shocking treatment of animals was filmed by activists using secret cameras.
But the Government has refused to prosecute.
Footage shows slaughtermen stubbing out cigarettes on pigs’ heads, animals being punched and a farming spike used on their faces.
But the Food Standards Agency and Defra, the Government animal welfare department, will not rely on evidence from a third party.
Animal Aid said the filming took place at an abattoir in Brentwood, Essex, run by Cheale Meats, where up to 6,000 pigs are slaughtered every week.
Kate Fowler of campaigning group Animal Aid, which captured the footage, said: “We’ve been pressing everyone involved to act decisively to end cruelty.
If Defra won’t prosecute these flagrant breaches of the law, if the vet’s can’t or won’t act to stop the cruelties, and if the slaughterhouse owners look the other way, who is there to stop animal abuse?”