Since our expose with Lateline last Thursday the Animal Liberation office has been flooded with calls from concerned members of the public. Media coverage following the expose included Sky News, ABC TV, SBS TV, Channel 10’s The Project, SMH, The Daily Telegraph and various other radio and print media. Our story has even grabbed the attention of overseas media. Six days of footage obtained from workers at an abattoir near Windsor was handed to and investigated by Animal Liberation and aired on ABC’s Lateline. Footage showed graphic scenes of extreme cruelty including the slaughter of conscious animals and the bashing to death of two pigs. Since our investigation and expose this abattoir was shut down and a full investigation is underway. Now all abattoirs in NSW will have their operations reviewed by the State Government. This is the second abattoir shut down in the last four months for animal cruelty. While authorities claim this was a ‘rogue operator’ the truth is there are often no inspectors onsite and therefore there is no way of knowing how many other abattoirs have similar cruelty breaches occurring regularly. The only way to ensure these scenes of extreme cruelty are reduced is by the mandatory installation of CCTV cameras in all slaughterhouses in Australia. What you can doSign our petition - Write to the Minister for Primary Industries, Katrina Hodgkinson to urge her to make CCTV cameras mandatory in slaughterhouses - In NSW and most States and Territories only hard copy petitions will be received by Ministers and other politicians in houses of Parliament. When politicians read out hard copy petitions after Question Time every member present gets to hear about issues of public concern whereas online petitions rarely, if ever, receive due attention.
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