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• Woolworths and Coles source pork from abattoirs featured in ‘horrific’ pig slaughter video

  29-03-2023 16:00
  
  Abattoirs use legal kill technique considered industry best practice as footage shows some pigs writhing in distressGet our morning and afternoon news emails, free app or daily news podcastAustralia’s two supermarket giants source pork from Victorian abattoirs depicted in “horrific” footage recording the effects of carbon dioxide gassing on pigs prior to slaughter.Although the technique is legal and widely used, Woolworths has now announced it will examine the “circumstan
  
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• Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead review – a magnificent Complicité creation

  29-03-2023 15:48
  
  Barbican, London
  Simon McBurney directs a toweringly innovative adaptation of the eco-thriller by Nobel-winner Olga TokarczukThe opening night of this Complicité production was aborted at the 11th hour last week when its star, Kathryn Hunter, took ill. As the actor Amanda Hadingue walks on to a bare stage, house lights still on, and begins to speak about coughs and Covid, it seems to be leading to another postponement.Complicité fans may recognise this unassuming start as a signatu
  
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