The video shows cattle doused with water to remain cool & prevent them from rotting due to the lack of refrigeration, causing further distress to the dying animals.
KYLIE STEVENS: Horrific footage has emerged of Australian cattle being illegally slaughtered alive at an Indonesian abattoir in an act of animal cruelty. A government department investigation has been launched into the footage filmed at an Australian-approved abattoir in the Aceh province during the recent Eid festival earlier this month. The graphic video released by Animals Australia shows cattle tied up by the mouth with rope, which is used to drag them along the concrete ground. One bull spends its final moments alive withering in pain as it slaps its tail. Cattle are doused with water to remain cool and prevent it from rotting due to the lack of refrigeration, which caused further distress to the dying animals.
The slaughter methods filmed are in breach of animal welfare standards under the Exporter Supply Chain Assurance System (ESCAS) rules implemented in 2011 to protect exported livestock from such cruelty. The cattle are housed in Mark I boxes, which are banned under Australian export rules. The ESCAS rules requires exporters to have arrangements with supply chain partners to provide humane treatment and handling of livestock from arrival in the importing country up to the point of slaughter. Australia is the only livestock exporting country that lists specific animal welfare conditions after the animals leave its shores…
Animals Australia director Lyn White believes nothing has changed with the rules were implemented almost a decade ago. ‘That Australian cattle are being killed by brutal, banned methods in audited and approved abattoirs in Indonesia should sound alarm bells that the integrity of the ESCAS audit and compliance system has been compromised,’ she said…
Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council chief executive Mark Harvey-Sutton condemned the confronting footage. He added cattle were slaughtered in an inappropriate way and that they should have rendered immediately unconscious after their throats were cut… The Australian Livestock Exporters’ Council Australia was already aware of claims of non-compliant slaughter of Australian cattle in Indonesia before the footage was released publicly this week. ‘The video footage of the non-compliant slaughter is distressing, unacceptable and not appropriate treatment of Australian livestock,’ Mr Harvey-Sutton said in a statement. SOURCE…
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