Published: 6 December 2019
Last updated: 4 March 2024
HARROWING FOOTAGE HAS EMERGED of animal abuse at Australian cattle farms which send live animals to Israel for fattening and slaughter.
Australia is regarded as one of the more enlightened suppliers of cattle for the meat industry.
But the Kan TV news footage from Monday (in Hebrew), 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.
It also showed 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.
FULL STORY Harrowing footage emerges of abuse at Australian cattle farms that supply Israel (Times of Israel)
'Horrific' footage of live cattle having horns removed in Australia sparks outrage (Guardian)
Footage shown on Israeli TV of distressed cattle on Western Australian stations prompts calls for mandatory pain relief
Photo: A calf dies for lack of water or mother’s milk on an Australian cattle farm, in footage screened on Israeli TV, December 2 (Kan TV screenshot)
