Pilkington (Animal Farm) the novel, Pilkington is portrayed by Alan Stanford. In the film, he is the first human to enter into trade agreements with Animal Farm, beginning regular deals with Napoleon. He considers it more practical to trade with the animals after learning that they can talk, believing that they are incapable of coping on their own, and dismissing claims that other animals are starving in favour of the benefits to himself. Pilkington (Animal Farm) Mr. Pilkington of Foxwood Farm is a fictional human character in George Orwell's satirical novel "Animal Farm." Pilkington is based on Winston Churchill and Franklin Delano Roosevelt.
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals film of him slapping and punching orangutans in 1989. In 1997, a PETA investigation inside Huntingdon Life Sciences (HLS), a contract animal-testing company, produced film of staff in the UK beating dogs, and what appeared to be abuse of monkeys in the company's New Jersey facility. After the video footage aired on British television in 1999, a group of activists set up Stop Huntingdon Animal Cruelty to close HLS down, a campaign that continues. In 1999, a North Carolina grand jury handed down indictments against pig-farm workers on Belcross Farm in Camden County, the first indictments for animal cruelty on