Norfolk Free Range - which is accused of a total of six charges, including failing to prevent unnecessary suffering to an animal and breaching laws governing the humane slaughter of animals.

The company, which operates on around 40 sites across East Anglia and has supplied pork to major UK supermarkets, including Tesco, Sainsbury's, Waitrose, Morrisons, Co-op, Aldi, and Lidl, will stand trial at Norwich Magistrates’ Court in June next year.

The prosecution follows the release of undercover video footage filmed by anti-meat activists at one of its sites, at Harford Farm, Caistor St Edmund, beside the A47 Norwich southern bypass.

The footage, captured during eight days of covert filming, featured in a documentary called Pignorant, produced by vegan animal activist Joey Carbstrong, in June 2022.

The film captured both workers making two separate attacks on pigs with a long metal fencing pole - known as a hurdle pin - with one pig........

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