Hillside Expose Biggest UK illegal Slaughterhouse

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Hillside's Investigation Exposes UK's Biggest Illegal Slaughterhouse!

 

The heroic Hillside undercover team bravely risked their lives and a

few limbs to covertly gather video evidence to expose barbaric animal

cruelty, dangers to public health and illegal unlicensed practices in

the biggest case of it's kind in the UK.

 

Hillside Animal Sanctuary are extremely grateful for the support by

The Sunday Mirror and The North Yorkshire Trading Standards Team to

send a clear message to these cruel thugs that these sort of

practices will not be tolerated and they will be pursued until

justice is done no matter how long it takes.

 

Ultimately it is Hillside's supporters that help us keep going in

difficult times and not only find homes for poor animals without a

voice of their own but also to seek out and deal with the root of the

problem – greedy individuals who take advantage of the naïve demand

for cheap meat and blatantly flout UK laws. If you are one of those

who has donated then we like to say thank you from all of us at

Hillside and from the countless animals you have saved.

 

The Head of the Trading Standards, North Yorkshire County Council,

Graham Venn also sends his thanks.

 

" I cannot understate the value of the evidence provided by Hillside

Animal Sanctuary in bringing this prosecution to a successful

conclusion. The coverage of your undercover officers in videoing the

unlicensed slaughter activity must be commended. Hillside's work has

in no doubt been instrumental in stopping this illegal operation

preventing suffering to livestock and protecting human health. "

 

Hillside's valiant team provided evidence that Trading Standards

revealed they would have had to jump through legal hoops to get

authorisation to obtain for themselves. Even then it may not have

been admissible. Because the initial video evidence was provided by

independent Hillside it made the case far quicker and easier to

secure a prosecution.

 

Sentencing is expected at Harrogate Magistrate's Court on 23rd March.

 

Hillside's covert operation managed to gather footage of various

incriminating admissions by the accused and revealed disgusting

barbaric scenes of a sheep with it's throat slashed halfway through

its neck and wildly thrashing it's head, hanging half off, as it lay

horizontally on a killing rack, blood pouring out onto the floor of

the barn.

 

If you view the video you'll see there appears to be no consideration

of health and hygiene, no special clothing, no sterilised equipment,

people smoking all around, farmers using a cheap B & Q type saw to hack

through a sheep's chest and numerous lame animals that look diseased

and unfit for human consumption.

 

There is a danger, with public demand for cheap meat so high, that

there will be increasing pressures by supermarkets on the farmers to

drive down profits. This will result in more farmers having to take

second jobs, spending less time looking after their animals, take an

increasing number of short cuts and increasing the prevalence of

appalling animal welfare standards and dangers to public health.

 

Please help us to continue to raise money to fund this essential work

and if you have time write to The Food Standards Agency and Trading

Standards Officers to encourage them to stamp out these unacceptable

practices. If you want to volunteer for investigative work please

write to Hillside with a CV to the address below.

 

See more at

http://www.yorkshiretoday.co.uk/ViewArticle2.aspx?

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http://www.hillside.org.uk

 

http://www.hillside.org.uk/acatalog/donations.html