Editing Tesco (section)

===Animal welfare===
Tesco has received criticism for supplying meat from intensive animal farms.<ref>{{Cite web |date=10 December 2022 |title=Piglets at RSPCA-backed farms 'kicked, thrown and electrocuted' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rspca-farm-pigs-animal-cruelty-b2242436.html |access-date=13 December 2022 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=12 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212130122/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/rspca-farm-pigs-animal-cruelty-b2242436.html |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{Cite news |date=25 June 2019 |title=Chickens 'left to rot' at major supplier Moy Park's farms |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-48745253 |access-date=13 December 2022 |archive-date=13 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213163839/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-lincolnshire-48745253 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In September 2019, footage shot at a self-described "ethical" farm that supplied Tesco showed birds being kicked and hurled into crates.<ref>{{Cite web |date=1 July 2019 |title=Tesco suspends chicken sales from 'ethical' farm where injured birds 'were kicked and hurled into crates' |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chicken-tesco-animal-abuse-video-investigation-rspca-red-tractor-a8982861.html |access-date=14 December 2022 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=14 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214184343/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chicken-tesco-animal-abuse-video-investigation-rspca-red-tractor-a8982861.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In September 2020, an investigation into a chicken farm that supplied Tesco found fast-growing birds that were in chronic pain and others that could barely stand up.<ref>{{Cite news |date=9 October 2020 |title=Animal charity raises concerns over 'frankenchickens' |language=en-GB |work=BBC News |url=https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-54452970 |access-date=14 December 2022 |archive-date=14 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214180805/https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-gloucestershire-54452970 |url-status=live }}</ref>

In May 2021, undercover footage captured showed piglets deemed too small or too weak for the abattoir being hammered to death by farm workers or being swung against a concrete floor to be killed at a Tesco supplier.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2 May 2021 |title=Pigs hammered to death at 'high-welfare' farm |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pigs-farm-animal-cruelty-scotland-b1840471.html |access-date=13 December 2022 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=12 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221212133835/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/pigs-farm-animal-cruelty-scotland-b1840471.html |url-status=live }}</ref> The practice, known as piglet thumping, is common on UK farms.<ref>{{Cite web |title=NPA responds to consumer concerns over method of dispatching sick piglets |url=http://www.npa-uk.org.uk/NPA_responds_to_consumer_concerns_over_method_of_dispatching_sick_piglets.html |access-date=14 December 2022 |website=npa-uk.org.uk |archive-date=14 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221214184349/http://www.npa-uk.org.uk/NPA_responds_to_consumer_concerns_over_method_of_dispatching_sick_piglets.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

In July 2021, The Independent revealed chickens were being left to die of thirst in overcrowded sheds by a Tesco supplier. Some birds resorted to [[cannibalism]], and many suffered ammonia burns.<ref>{{Cite web |date=31 July 2021 |title=Chickens died of thirst and dead birds left to rot at suppliers to Tesco, Sainsbury, Lidl and KFC |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chicken-tesco-sainsbury-sainsbury-kfc-lidl-aldi-welfare-b1893070.html |access-date=13 December 2022 |website=The Independent |language=en |archive-date=13 December 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20221213194219/https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/chicken-tesco-sainsbury-sainsbury-kfc-lidl-aldi-welfare-b1893070.html |url-status=live }}</ref>