I WAS horrified to read in a national newspaper recently that an investigation into a pig farm supplying a major supermarket has uncovered shocking scenes of animal suffering.

The investigation by animal group Viva! found pigs with deep wounds and severe infections, dead and dying piglets, breeding sows confined to tiny farrowing crates (metal cages so small the pigs cannot even turn around) and maggots crawling over a piglet carcass. Like most people, I imagined a major supermarket expected high standards of welfare from its suppliers but they claim to have found nothing wrong on the farm and have taken no action against it.

I have looked at the very disturbing pictures on the Viva! website (www.viva.org.uk)

and I am dismayed that a major supermarket mau use suppliers who subject their animals to such treatment.

If the such chains will not accept its responsibilities for animal welfare, there is something very wrong with our system.

To find out more, please contact Viva! At 8 York Court, Wilder Street, Bristol BS2 8QH; tel 01179441000.

Lesley Bosworth, Haig Rd, Blackpool