In 2024, Farm Transparency Project installed hidden cameras in the Carey Bros slaughterhouse. The footage revealed:
- Sheep, goats and pigs being punched, kicked, pulled by ears and horns, roughly shoved and thrown, or beaten with sticks, by workers moving them from the holding pens to the 'race' and into the restraint
- Animals escaping the race and restraint, running loose in the kill room and processing areas
- Escaped animals being roughly handled and improperly stunned when returned to the kill table
- Sheep, pigs, and goats being stunned ineffectively, in multiple cases leading to animals being killed while exhibiting signs of consciousness: blinking, gasping, and struggling
- Some animals being killed while fully conscious with no stunning at all, including one sheep who is stabbed twice and then decapitated by a frustrated worker
- Cows being electrocuted multiples times before and after sticking
- Cows being ineffectively stunned via bolt gun, requiring multiple attempts to effectively stun them as they continue to struggle in the knockbox
- Ineffective bolt gun stunning leading to strong responses from some cows during electrical stunning: head lifting, rapid kicking, thrashing, etc
- Larger pigs in the knockbox are ineffectively bolt gunned, causing intense thrashing and spasming while workers attempt to raise them to the shackle line
- Multiple pigs still seemingly conscious after being lowered into the scalding tanks, thrashing when they are lowered into the water and ultimately drowning.
