• The severe individual confinement of pregnant sows and mother pigs in sow stalls and farrowing crates.
• The inability to exercise and constant standing or lying on hard floors causes lameness, foot injuries, lesions and weakened bones.
• The docking of piglets' tails, clipping of their teeth, and castration of male piglets without anaesthetic.

• Causing an animal unnecessary pain and suffering
• Failing to provide adequate exercise

• 350,000 mother pigs
• 5.7 million piglets each year

• The severe confinement of hens in wire cages where they are unable to spread their wings, exercise or perform natural behaviours - resulting in physical and mental suffering.
• The debeaking of chicks where up to one half of the upper beak and one third of the lower beak are cut off to stop caged hens pecking each other.
• Nerves reach to the tip of the beak, so this mutilation is extremely painful and is chronic to some birds.

• Causing an animal unnecessary pain
• Failing to provide adequate exercise

• 11 million laying hens

• Confining up to 23 chickens per square metre in indoor sheds prior to slaughter.
• Causing harm and suffering to chickens by selective breeding and high growth feed which results in unnaturally rapid growth, bone deformities, fractures, hip dislocations, and diseases. Professor John Webster of the Universityh of Bristol School of Veterinary Science: " Broilers are the only livestock that are in chronic pain for the last 20% of their lives"

• Causing an animal unnecessary pain
• Failing to provide adequate exercise

• 420 million chickens each year

• Painful mutilations are performed on lambs without anaesthetic.
• Their tails are cut off and the males castrated.
• Most lambs are 'mulesed' which involves cutting slices of skin from the buttocks to produce a wool-less scar area that is less likely to attract flies.

Cruelty Offences:
The victims:

• Causing an animal unnecessary pain
• 20 Million lambs each year

• IIn the ultra-fine wool industry, sheep are kept confined individually or in small groups in pens indoors, denying them exercise and the ability to perform natural behaviours such as grazing.

• Failing to provide adequate exercise
• At least 10,000 sheep