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2002 Hillside Reveals
UK’s Worst Restaurant..

We teamed up with the BBC to help make the programme
‘UK’s Worst Restaurants’. We randomly approached Indian and Englis
restaurants and easily found three restaurateurs willing to buy chicken
lamb from our investigator who was posing as an unscrupulous seller.
the greedy owners that he killed the animals himself! Even after recei
‘UK’s Worst Restaurant’ trophy from Nick Knowles, takeaway owner, M
was still trying to contact our ‘supplier’ for cheap meat even though th
had told him uninspected meat ‘wasn’t safe’! Mr Galal’s reckless behav
described by a food safety consultant as ‘very worrying’. All the meat,
course, legally sourced by the BBC from Smithfield Market.

Exposing the Myths of
Welfare Standards...

In 2000, we had investigated Grampian Country Chickens. This ‘Freed
accredited farm was the nation’s largest chicken producer and had cla
be ‘absolutely committed to the highest standards of bird welfare’. We
they were rearing birds for Tesco, Sainsbury’s and ASDA in absolute sq
As the big supermarkets had all claimed to be ‘shocked’ by our finding
said they would launch an ‘immediate investigation’ we decided to hav
look in 2002, to see if conditions for the birds had improved. Unfortu
found that nothing had changed at all! Our evidence, which was fe
the Sunday Mirror and Sunday People, showed piles of stinking, maggo
carcasses outside. Inside, we filmed 22,000 chickens crammed into a
dimly-lit shed where injured and distressed birds, many crippled with d
legs, were forced to use their wings to drag themselves to food and w
TESCO had been so proud of this farm, run by Mr Pardon, that they f
him on posters and put them up in stores around the country!

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