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Ducks destined for Tesco and other supermarkets swung by necks and slammed into drawers in harrowing video

Source: Animal Justice Project

Secret camera footage shows ducks swung by their necks, slammed into drawers and hurled to the ground at a farm supplying the UK’s largest duck meat producer, which sells to the UK’s biggest supermarkets.

The video was shot when birds destined for Gressingham Duck, which supplies Tesco, Sainsbury’s, Morrisons, Co-op and, until recently, Waitrose, were being caught at a farm endorsed by farming standards project Red Tractor.

Animal rights activists said the “shocking and harrowing” footage revealed the brutal and

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