Editing Sainsbury's (section)

=== Animal welfare ===
Sainsbury's supplies a vast majority of its meat from [[intensive farming|intensive farms]], as such there is frequent reporting of animal abuse in its supply chains. In December 2021 footage emerged from an intensive chicken farm in the Sainsbury's supply chain showing dead and wounded turkeys amongst living ones. The birds were confined to a large shed with no natural light.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dalton |first=Jane |date=18 December 2021 |title=Dead and wounded turkeys found among living at farm linked to supermarkets |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/turkey-christmas-supermarket-dead-b1978453.html |access-date=3 June 2024 |work=The Independent }}</ref>

In December 2023 animal rights activists secretly filmed at a duck farm in the Sainsbury's supply chain. Workers were captured swinging ducks by their necks and slamming them into draws. The video showed insanitary sheds, with dead ducks piled up.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dalton |first=Jane |date=24 December 2023 |title=Ducks destined for Tesco, Waitrose and Sainsbury swung by necks and slammed into drawers in 'harrowing' video |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/duck-tesco-waitrose-sainsbury-morrisons-cruelty-b2455575.html |access-date=3 June 2024 |work=The Independent }}</ref>

In February 2024, a [[BBC News]] investigation revealed 20% of chickens sold at Sainsbury's had severe ammonia burns from living in excrement. They stated [[hock burns|hock burn]] was "a sign of poorer welfare on farms".<ref>{{cite news |date=29 February 2024 |title=Millions of store chickens suffer burns from excrement |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-68406398 |access-date=3 June 2024 |work=BBC News }}</ref>

In March 2024, a farm in the Sainsbury's supply chain was found to be keeping egg laying hens in "appalling conditions". Footage showed injured and collapsed hens, a sick hen with a bloody head, many dead hens, prolapses, feather loss and poor 'enrichment' facilities for the birds.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Evans |first1=Alex |last2=Gamble |first2=James |date=24 March 2024 |title=Leeds egg farm for Sainsbury's found keeping hens in 'appalling' conditions |url=https://www.leeds-live.co.uk/news/leeds-news/leeds-farm-supplying-eggs-sainsburys-28879000 |access-date=3 June 2024 |website=Leeds Live }}</ref>

In April 2024, cameras were placed in a slaughterhouse that was processing pigs for Sainsbury's. Footage showed workers hitting pigs in the face before they entered a carbon dioxide gas chamber to die. After the footage emerged, the [[RSPCA]] called for the government to end gas chamber killings.<ref>{{cite news |last=Dalton |first=Jane |date=3 April 2024 |title=Pigs hit in face before 'agonising' CO2 death at supplier for Tesco, Asda, Aldi and M&S |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pigs-bacon-tesco-asda-aldi-mands-b2520254.html |access-date=3 June 2024 |work=The Independent}}</ref>

Sainsbury's, along with [[Waitrose]] and other supermarkets, has phased out  [[eyestalk ablation]] of shrimps within its supply chain.<ref>{{Cite news |last=Ungoed-Thomas |first=Jon |date=2025-02-15 |title=Waitrose to stop selling suffocated farmed prawns, as campaigners say they feel pain |url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2025/feb/15/prawn-farming-cruelty-electrical-stunning-waitrose |access-date=2025-05-09 |work=The Guardian |language=en-GB |issn=0261-3077}}</ref>