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British supermarket chains, such as Asda, Tesco, Morrisons, Sainsbury's and Waitrose, are rethinking their pork supplier. The Polish pig farms that produced much of the supermarket pork products have been condemned for "'appalling' animal welfare practices."
The farms in question are in Poland and have been run by Animex, a subsidiary of the American company Smithfield Foods, since 2002. An undercover investigation revealed industrial factory farms, conditions where hundreds of pigs were crammed into light-less barns with dead companions rotting underfoot. The investigation also found that "powerful cocktails of drugs," including a cocktail of antibiotics that is banned or considered to be a growth-promoter in other countries. One such drug is Tylbian 20%, a form of the growth promoting drug Tylosin, which was banned by the European Union in 1999. Local residents showed investigators large open-air cesspits of pig waste and farm detritus that included syringes and needles.
Waitrose has already pulled the products supplied by this producer. No wrong-doing has been shown on the part of Smithfield Foods and a Smithfield representative denied knowledge of such conditions, assuring the public that it would investigate thoroughly.
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4-05-2006 @2:18AM Miriam said... If the article is true, that's appalling. I'm not really sure that the company didn't know about the conditions of the factory. And if they didn't, then why not? I would assume that you would want to know about things like that so you could avoid bad publicity (which this is).
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4-05-2006 @3:30AM Alex said... So this isn't actually about appalling conditions for British pork, then, is it? It's about appalling conditions in POLAND, which, when I checked, is quite a long way from the UK ...
There is quite a big push in the UK for people to make sure they buy British pork because production standards tend to be higher in the UK (apparently) than in a lot of other countries.
This is interesting to know (and go Waitrose for pulling the products already) but should be a LOT better headlined. And of course we should all be buying organic pork from free range happy pigs! :)
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