From AussiePigs.com.au
August 2012
This piggery is one of the worst examples of factory farming where animals are treated like 'production machines' and no thought is given to their capacity to suffer.
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ANIMAL LIBERATION UNDERCOVER INVESTIGATION LEADS TO RAID ON PIGGERY BY
POLICE, ANIMAL WELFARE INSPECTORS, AND THE FOOD AUTHORITY
SHOCKING EVIDENCE OF BRUTAL ANIMAL ABUSE AND HORRIFIC SLAUGHTER EXPOSES PIG
INDUSTRY'S HIDDEN CRIMES
Mark Pearson, Executive Director Animal Liberation NSW said:
This piggery is one of the worst examples of factory
farming where animals are treated like 'production machines' and no thought
is given to their capacity to suffer.
Animal activists from Animal Liberation ACT & NSW discovered and
photographed pigs, sows and piglets living in appalling conditions. Images
also included buckets of dead piglets, a sledge hammer used to bludgeon
pigs, and sows with open sores.
Jess Ferry, Co-President of Animal Liberation ACT said:
Hidden cameras filming over several weeks revealed
sick and dying animals, workers throwing and kicking piglets and beating
sows, and infestations of flies around and on the pigs. In the slaughter
room, the footage showed the owner of the piggery smashing his pigs with a
sledgehammer before cutting their throat and leaving them to die in agony
over six minutes, sometimes returning to use the knife or sledgehammer
again. No stunning device was used, and workers were seen to be drinking
from beer bottles during their shift in the slaughter room.
Today’s raid by the police, the RSPCA, the Animal Welfare League and the
Food Authority on this horrific facility was long overdue.
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