The video showed workers standing on, electrocuting and even shooting 'for fun' at cows; dying cows being left to die slowly when there weren’t enough guns to finish them off.
SUE SURKES: ‘Australian ranchers whose animal abuse was exposed on Israeli television will not not be criminally charged and the investigation into their actions has been shut down, the Western Australian government told local media… “As part of an investigation, DPIRD has assessed all footage and determined that there is no case under Western Australia’s Animal Welfare Act 2002 to proceed to prosecution,” the Department of Primary Industries, which oversees agriculture and food production, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.
According to ABC, the footage may have been broadcast after the statute of limitations for the recorded incidents had already expired. It cited a DPIRD spokesman as saying that “any prosecution action relating to animal welfare offenses under the Act must be commenced within two years of the date of the alleged offense”… Harrowing footage of abuse and torture at Australian cattle farms that send live animals to Israel for fattening and slaughter was aired by state broadcaster Kan (Hebrew) last December.
The footage, which was filmed secretly by two Israelis who secured jobs at several cattle farms in western Australia, showed an animal protection manager kicking and punching a cow; workers standing on, electrocuting and even shooting “for fun” at animals; dying cows being left to die slowly when there weren’t enough guns to finish them off and — in one instance — a cow still alive on the ground after someone who had never previously held a weapon fired four bullets into her body.
Calves were filmed dying for lack of water or mother’s milk, sick animals were not treated and anesthetics were not given to calves prior to dehorning — a painful practice to prevent them bruising people or one another… Despite Tel Aviv’s reputation as a vegan capital, Israel is the fourth-biggest beef and veal consumer in the OECD, after Brazil, the US and Argentina, with annual per capita beef consumption in 2018 standing at 20.5 kilograms (45.2 pounds). The country imports some 90 percent of its beef, around a quarter of it from Australia, according to Greenpeace’. SOURCE…
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