Karro

In 2023, a Karro farm worker was convicted of repeatedly and deliberately running over a pig on his quad bike. He was banned from working with animals for just one year and fined a paltry £500.²

A previous farm investigation found that Karro’s piglets were kept on bare metal slats with just a chain and blue foam tube for enrichment, which is the absolute bare legal minimum and does nothing to occupy the inquisitive minds of intelligent animals.³

It also found pregnant mother pigs locked inside tiny cages called "farrowing crates".⁴

A 2025 investigation of a farm connected to Karro found a pile of more than 15 dead pigs, some with fresh bloody wounds, one with an open abdominal cavity, and blood all over the floor. It also found pregnant sows confined in cages known as farrowing crates.⁵

A 2025 audit of Karro’s slaughterhouse in Tyrone found a major breach in the law that requires workers to check animals are unconscious before they have their throats cut.⁶ You had one job, people.

A 2025 government data leak revealed antibiotic-resistant strains of salmonella were found in meat samples linked to Karro.⁷ Overuse of antibiotics in farms, which is especially prevalent in the pig industry, is connected to antimicrobial resistance, which is estimated to cause around 2,000 deaths per year in the UK.⁸

After a Karro employee was convicted of harming animals, and received next to no punishment, questions were raised within the industry as to why Karro was not subject to the same penalties as other businesses who were found to have workers abusing animals.⁹ That’s a question we’d like answered too, please.

Karro was accused of “exploitation” and “blackmail” by Northern Ireland’s politicians after it told its farmers that it would cut the prices it paid to them unless they sold at least 80% of their pigs to the company.¹⁰

Karro produces 328 tonnes of pig manure every single hour across the UK but has no discernible policy or strategy for responsible waste management.¹¹ It’s starting to become clear why our rivers are so full of shit.¹²

Serious failings were found at a Karro slaughterhouse by hygiene inspectors checking the standards of meat due for export to America. They found carcasses infected with faecal matter, as well as insufficient inspections and a lack of remedial action.¹³

A 2025 audit of Karro’s slaughterhouse in Tyrone found multiple hygiene breaches including that it fails to ensure non-contamination of meat entering the food chain. They also had some issues keeping the products at the legally required temperature and the packaging was also deemed to be a potential source of contamination.¹⁴

The company was fined £1.8 million in 2019 after two of its employees sustained serious injuries – including fractured ribs, a punctured lung, a fractured skull, and injuries which caused problems with balance, memory, and mental health – after falling through a roof that the company knew to be fragile.¹⁵

In 2025, Karro was named and shamed by the government for failing to pay even the minimum wage to 73 of its workers.¹⁶