{"id":759690,"date":"2020-02-21T08:27:56","date_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:27:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759690"},"modified":"2020-02-21T08:27:56","modified_gmt":"2020-02-21T13:27:56","slug":"shameless-injustice-no-charges-against-workers-who-shot-and-electrocuted-cows-for-fun-at-australian-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=759690","title":{"rendered":"SHAMELESS INJUSTICE: No charges against workers who shot and electrocuted cows \u2018for fun\u2019 at Australian farms"},"content":{"rendered":"\t
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The video showed workers standing on, electrocuting and even shooting 'for fun' at cows; dying cows being left to die slowly when there weren\u2019t enough guns to finish them off.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n

SUE SURKES:<\/strong> ‘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… \u201cAs part of an investigation, DPIRD has assessed all footage and determined that there is no case under Western Australia\u2019s Animal Welfare Act 2002 to proceed to prosecution,\u201d the Department of Primary Industries, which oversees agriculture and food production, told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation.<\/em><\/p>\n

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 \u201cany 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.<\/em><\/p>\n

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 \u201cfor fun\u201d at animals; dying cows being left to die slowly when there weren\u2019t enough guns to finish them off and \u2014 in one instance \u2014 a cow still alive on the ground after someone who had never previously held a weapon fired four bullets into her body.<\/em><\/p>\n

Calves were filmed dying for lack of water or mother\u2019s milk, sick animals were not treated and anesthetics were not given to calves prior to dehorning \u2014 a painful practice to prevent them bruising people or one another… Despite Tel Aviv\u2019s 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’.<\/em>\u00a0 SOURCE…<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n

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