NEWS.COM.AU: VIDEO footage from a western Sydney abattoir under investigation for animal cruelty shows pigs being battered over the head with a metal pole.
The NSW Food Authority yesterday halted slaughtering at Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors at Wilberforce after it received video footage showing "acts of gross animal mistreatment".
The footage, shown on ABC's Lateline program last night, depicted images of a slaughterman at the abattoir bashing one pig seven times over the head with what appeared to be a metal bar.
Another pig was hit 13 times, apparently because it had not been stunned properly and remained conscious ahead of slaughter.
Other images showed sheep still apparently conscious after having their throats cut. » | AAP | Friday, February 10, 2012
