{"id":1329,"date":"2009-12-16T08:59:05","date_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:59:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/?p=1329"},"modified":"2009-12-16T08:59:05","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T12:59:05","slug":"1329","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/16\/1329\/","title":{"rendered":"Animal Aid Slaughterhouse Expose"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>Three slaughtermen have been suspended from a Soil Association-approved abattoir following an undercover investigation by Animal Aid that reveals what the government regulatory body, the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS), describes as &#8216;clear evidence of breaches of animal welfare legislation&#8217;.<\/p>\n<p>The national campaign group&#8217;s footage of pigs and sheep being killed was shot secretly between October 19 and November 3 at Tom Lang Ltd, in Ashburton, Devon. The evidence was handed to the MHS. The film shows animals being kicked, slapped and thrown; improperly stunned; and even decapitated while they may still have been alive.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.animalaid.org.uk\/h\/n\/NEWS\/pr_factory\/\/2241\/\/\">Three workers suspended and CCTV installed in organic abattoir following cruelty allegations<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Three slaughtermen have been suspended from a Soil Association-approved abattoir following an undercover investigation by Animal Aid that reveals what the government regulatory body, the Meat Hygiene Service (MHS), describes as &#8216;clear evidence of breaches of animal welfare legislation&#8217;. The &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/2009\/12\/16\/1329\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,4],"tags":[13],"class_list":["post-1329","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animal-rights","category-eating","tag-animals-in-agriculture"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1329\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/grumpyvegan.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}