#Profits and efficiency prevailed over the care or well-being of the #vulnerable, young #birds. As #consumers, we must stop buying these 'products' of #abuse off #supermarket shelves and instead opt for plant-based foods, which offer everyone a just and respectful future. #GoVegan for duck's sake!

You can sign our petition today to ask the 'Big 6' #supermarkets to stop selling the abused bodies of #Gressingham 's ducks

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As the vicious #attack ended, the ducks were thrown to the ground, flapping and writhing in pain for as long as three minutes. The now emptied shed became littered with the bodies of those ducks who meant nothing to #Gressingham now that they could not provide any #FinancialGain.

The 9,000 #birds who were shoved into crates then endured an arduous 180-mile journey to Gressingham's #slaughterhouse in #Suffolk, where they would enter an #ElectrifiedWaterBath –

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enables them to display their #NaturalBehaviours. It is in direct contradiction with the #AnimalWelfareAct 2006 to not allow animals to carry out these behaviours, and a tragically #cruel thing to do.

#Gressingham, a so-called "local boys and a family business", is #industrial in size. Each duck becomes a mere statistic in this gross #exploitative system and not an individual who has needs. We witnessed eye and nasal infections, blindness, severe lameness, twisted feet and bent necks.

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