Screaming pig is clubbed to death in shocking images from Thai slaughterhouse where animals are sliced with iron nails to force them into pens

WARNING: DISTRESSING IMAGES
Jo-Anne McArthur, 43, took the photos at a slaughterhouse just a few hours from the Thai capital, Bangkok
She founded We Animals Media and uses storytelling and journalism to try to put an end to animal cruelty
The Thai owner of the slaughterhouse routinely invites people to see how the animals are killed, she said
She said a group of veterinary students had been there earlier and they vomited after seeing the slaughter

Horrifying photos show the disgusting conditions inside a Thai slaughterhouse - where pigs are clubbed to death.

Gruesome photos show a pig dying of its injuries in a pool of blood, a sow screaming as a slaughterhouse worker swings down with a wooden club with all his might and pigs lining up in holding pens.

Another sobering shot shows a pig slumped on his front trotters.

The images were captured by Jo-Anne McArthur, 43, the founder of We Animals Media, which is dedicated to ending animal cruelty.

She spent several hours exploring the Thai slaughterhouse, located just a few hours from Bangkok, after being invited to look around the abattoir.

'I wasn't the first to be welcomed here; the owner of the facility thinks it's important for people to see the process of slaughter and once welcomed a group of veterinary students to spend a morning here too. He said that many of them vomited,' McArthur said.

'On this particular day, I was welcomed and escorted through the slaughterhouse doors with an invitation to spend the morning taking photos. I explored the circuit; the holding pens, the kill floor, and the area where the animals are gutted, dismembered and packed into trucks.'

McArthur quietly documented truckload after truckload of terrified pigs cajoled from a long rank of vehicles using iron nails and electric prods to coerce the animals into pens. Along the journey and at the slaughterhouse, the terrified pigs kick, scratch, and bite one another in a bid for the smallest amount of space as the smell of blood and adrenaline filled the air.

'When the pigs were hosed down they huddled together, their backs turned to the slaughter room across the floor,' continued McArthur.

'Some screamed. Others seemed mute and immobile. Others shook. Many tried to escape when they were prodded or dragged soaking wet to the kill floor. Fear is recognizable across most species, and with the pigs here, it is undeniably palpable.'

The worst was yet to come.

The ardent photojournalist documented as pigs were struck repeatedly with huge, wooden clubs before a knife was sliced into their throat and their sternums split open. The goal of the clubbing is to humanely stun the animals before slaughter, but pigs have thick skulls and the stunning was more often than not futile, succeeding only in knocking the pigs to their knees and further terrifying them.

'Amid the chaos, pigs were left to bleed out for a minute or so in groups before another worker would jam a hook into their leg and then heave the animal into a vat of boiling water,' added a solemn McArthur.

'The men would then set to scraping the pigs clean of hair, using sharp knives in a shaving motion, then deftly severing their heads and hooves. While men did the slaughtering and butchering, it was Burmese women in the back rooms who emptied and cleaned the pig intestines and organs.'

By the end of McArthur's visit to the slaughterhouse, she left properly splattered with blood.

'Everyone asks how I can handle bearing witness to so much violence,' she said.

'It is brutal but I find catharsis in action. When I started out fifteen years ago, it would have been near impossible to get these images seen but now millions of people have seen my story. I truly believe we're amid a global rise of engagement in animal journalism, a collective seeing.

'Photographs lead people to change, and the momentum for hope of a different story for animals is what keeps me grounded.'

Source: https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8012293/Screaming-pig-clubbed-death-shocking-images-Thai-slaughterhouse.html?ito=social-twitter_mailonline

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There are better ways to slaughter pigs than that horror way. One of the best used is the stabbing method.

Shey make the butchers dey beg them to die ni or sing for the pigs ni cos I don't understand?!
Slaughter na slaughter.

The pork meat should be banned worldwide.

Heart wrenching images

#bloodybusiness

Different departments....even intestines cleaning.

okorotalkative:
The pork meat should be banned worldwide.

Its better than cow meat in any way you look at it

mrvitalis:

Its better than cow meat in any way you look at it

Eehen, but the thing dey do my body somehow.

okorotalkative:
The pork meat should be banned worldwide.

Tropical fulani moslem, that always reason backward! Because you're a moslem you want pork to be banned. Soon you'll starte carring out jihad against pork, because it is a western food

okorotalkative:


Eehen, but the thing dey do my body somehow.

Is just your mind ,that's all

If u don chop pork meat stew, u no go talk this rubbish.

okorotalkative:
The pork meat should be banned worldwide.

I wonder wat camera she is using cause am in love with it

But there are better ways to slaughter, why this barbaric act This is nothing but extreme cruelty

Men are wicked

hi

Marine54:
Tropical fulani moslem, that always reason backward! Because you're a moslem you want pork to be banned. Soon you'll starte carring out jihad against pork, because it is a western food

Puma ti bé

stanbillion200:
There are better ways to slaughter pigs than that horror way.
One of the best used is the stabbing method.

What now the differnced now!!!!! !if u so much love animals then don't even kill a mosquito naw!!!

Poor pigs

okorotalkative:


Eehen, but the thing dey do my body somehow.

What about the souls herdsmen kill to feed their cattles.. If u reason that one, then u go ban eating of anything meat

okorotalkative:
The pork meat should be banned worldwide.

beef should be banned too.

there's nothing there, God has given us authority over all animals in the air land or sea, so who's complaining

stanbillion200:
There are better ways to slaughter pigs than that horror way.
One of the best used is the stabbing method.

how is stabbing less cruel than this. Same we criticizing them will put knife in fowl neck. that animal right activist should go to kenya and see how lion,cheetah abuse antelope,zebra. he should sue the lion. If that one is not wrong but natural. They should leave us to kill our animals.

There really should be a less horrific and painless way for these animals to be slaughtered.This is just heartbreaking to see and the people who are doing this don't care at all. How can you beat an animal to death,I mean seriously!! Nobody would want their death to be extremely painful so why should these poor animals death be extremely painful?! This is exactly why I'm going vegan,no animal deserves this.

I don't know why Christian's eat pork, Jews don't eat pork... Ayyamma..yurk

I don't understand this cruelty toward cattle. Do these people themselves take pleasure in other people's pain and suffering, even if it is cattle? There are more humane ways of slaughtering, and modern technology allows us to spare an animal from suffering before death. Modern slaughterhouse equipment manufacturers provide equipment even for kosher slaughter because scientists have proven that violent death affects the meat itself long ago. In any case, I would never buy the products of a company that tortures pigs with such medieval methods.

epondudu:
I don't know why Christian's eat pork, Jews don't eat pork... Ayyamma..yurk

Your moniker is making me laugh here

How do you want them to now kill the pigs

bmdmixer:
I wonder wat camera she is using cause am in love with it

Its either a professional cannon 700D camera or a google pixel phone that has GCAM supporting its camera.

No other phone can capture such an image again

Nice one...

Imagine if all the yahoo boys littered all over the southwest are lured into a hotel and given this treatment.

Omo, the shît go mad gan.

the camera quality is wow

Before nko

Thais are worse than animals