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Article: HORROR AT THE PIG FARM; nvestigators' shocking find at top pork producers - Video shows cannibal swine eating carcasses - Feeding bins infested with roaming rat packs - Inquiry demanded after fears over foot and mouth.(News)
- Article from:
- Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland)
- Article date:
- April 8, 2002
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Byline: STEVE SMITH EXCLUSIVE
SCOTS consumers are being sold bacon from pigs reared in horrific conditions.
An investigation has uncovered a stomach-churning lack of hygiene at a farm run by one of the country's biggest pork producers.
Pigs were found feasting on decaying carcasses of their own kind. And their filthy pens were over-run by rats.
The appalling conditions were discovered at Ormiston Pig Farm in West Lothian. It is run by Scotpigs, one of the country's biggest pork producers.
The revelations raise serious questions ...