no stunning used at all.
One out of the many Australian abattoir slaughter houses caught, and the other few hundred are still left to carry on with animal cruelty… Our Australian government still allow animal cruelty to all our live exports.
http://www.abc.net.au/lateline/content/2012/s3427271.htm
Slaughtering has been halted at a Sydney abattoir after video evidence of animal cruelty.
The NSW food authority said in a statement on Thursday that it had seen disturbing video footage of what it described as “gross animal mistreatment”.
“The video shows the slaughter of sheep, cattle, goats and pigs that allegedly breaches the Food Regulation 2010 and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979,” it said.
An investigation involving the RSPCA is underway, it says.
A spokeswoman for the NSW food authority said it received the video, taken at Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors at Wilberforce, in Sydney’s west, on Wednesday.
“The video shows one of the staff members at the abattoir hitting a pig and there’s a cattle prod being used on cattle,” she told AAP.
“We’ve gone in and taken their stamps, which means they can’t slaughter any more animals, and then there will be an investigation into their processes.”
She said the operation employed about 20 people and did halal and non-halal slaughter.
A spokeswoman for the abattoir confirmed it was under investigation but declined to comment further.
The video was provided to the food authority by the ABC, the spokeswoman said.
The closure of the Sydney abattoir comes after videos showing the mistreatment of cattle in Indonesia halted live animal sales last year.
Steve Coleman, the CEO of RSPCA NSW, said the state’s food authority provided him with the footage on Thursday.
“I and the chief investigator have had a look at that footage and we have concerns, and we intend to launch an investigation commencing first thing tomorrow morning,” he told AAP.
Mr Coleman said the footage raised concerns about slaughter methods and animal handling practices at the abattoir.
It wasn’t the first time concerns had been raised about the operation, Mr Coleman said.
The minds and hearts of these men will pay dearly for such brutality towards these animals. They will fear their own deaths and tremble at the sight of their own impending death when God judges them. :razzmad: