A new undercover investigation released by Animal Equality Italia into Italy’s cow slaughterhouses exposes egregious animal cruelty





The heartbreaking footage shows workers mistreating animals by violently pushing and pulling them, hitting cows on the head with heavy metal rods, and failing to properly stun animals before slaughter. Live cows are tied up next to the bodies of slaughtered animals. Some cows are still conscious when they are hoisted up by one leg and stabbed in the neck, writhing as they bleed out.









According to the animal rights group, the footage highlights serious regulatory problems: the absence of strict controls enforcing regulations and a lack of consequences for those who break the law.





In a statement on Animal Equality Italia’s website, Executive Director Matteo Cupi writes:

Without investigations and the work of organizations, there would be no way to know the truth and consumers would remain completely unaware of all this. Of course, consumers can always choose to help animals by reducing or avoiding meat consumption, but it is a question of transparency. (Our translation.)





In fact, the Animal Equality video reminds us of one of the most disturbing investigations MFA has ever conducted. Investigators in slaughterhouses throughout Mexico found cows and pigs violently kicked and beaten, shocked with electric prongs in their faces and eyes, stabbed repeatedly and left to choke on their own blood and vomit , and even cut open while still conscious and able to feel pain.





Additionally, the investigation showed minors participating in animal slaughter. These sickening abuses were documented at municipal slaughterhouses in several states across Mexico.













Sadly, the meat industry is legally allowed to abuse billions of animals each year. While a few animals manage to escape from slaughterhouses and run for their lives, most are not so lucky.



