Shut down slaughterhouses

Over the past 10 years, Farm Transparency Project has entered over one hundred Australian slaughterhouses, factory farms and knackeries, revealing the horror within to an often stunned public. Yet, Australian slaughter industries, including meat, dairy and eggs, continue to lie to consumers, claiming that what happens behind the closed doors of farms and slaughterhouses can somehow be humane.

We won't rest until we reveal the depth of the systemic and inherent animal abuse in the animal slaughter industry - abuse that is completely unnecessary, especially given the vast array of easily accessible plant-based alternatives.

Over 2023 and 2024, we will investigate, expose and release new footage from 30 Australian slaughterhouses, exposing the brutal final moments of animals bred for food in this country. 

It's time for a national conversation about the mass suffering we're inflicting on animals and whether that could ever align with our values, when most Australians consider themselves animal-lovers and when there's already such a vast array of easily-accessible plant-based alternatives. 

What we want

A just transition to slaughter-free food production

The technology which would allow us to transition away from commercialised animal slaughter already exists. With emerging technology and innovation in the plant-based food sector, we are more than capable of feeding our country without suffering and violence. Our government needs to move away from meat, dairy and eggs, and towards slaughter free food production. This includes:

• Investing in plant-based food production.

• Redirecting the millions of dollars in public funding, which currently funds the meat, dairy and egg industries, away from slaughter-based food production and into plant-based alternatives

• Supporting vulnerable workers to escape the slaughter industry. Developing a just transition for workers in these violent industries, linked to high levels of mental illness and brutality, into alternative roles. 

Complete legal protection for farmed animals

Most of what is done to farmed animals in farms and slaughterhouses is only legal because of outdated exemptions to our animal welfare laws which mean that what would be illegal if it was done to a dog or a cat, is legal when done to a pig or a cow. We are calling for complete legal protection for farmed animals, which would mean an immediate end to the commercial breeding, confinement and slaughter of all animals bred for food. 

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Most of us see ourselves as animal lovers; yet our actions may be contributing to the abuse and violent slaughter of individuals who live, breathe and feel just as much as our dogs and cats. 

Boycott Animal slaughter 
The only way to be sure you’re not supporting the abuse of farmed animals, is to stop eating them. Take the pledge today to leave animals off your plate and live vegan. 

Help us shut down slaughterhouses
Workers using the bodies of sheep and pigs as punching bags, hitting them as they hang suspended on the shackle line, or as they are pulled onto the kill table to have their throat slit. Pigs screaming as their heads are clamped in electrified paddles, some left stunned but conscious for minutes as they blink and look around in terror. Sheep and goats stabbed in the head over and over again as they thrash and try desperately to run backwards on the moving conveyor belt, forcing them towards their deaths. Cows trying to stand after being shot in the head multiple times, then dying in agony as they bleed out on the kill room floor. Our investigations have revealed horrific suffering in slaughterhouses across Australia proving without a doubt that slaughter can never be humane. Show your support for a slaughter free food system by signing our petition today. 

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• Next Tuesday: High Court to hear slaughterhouse cruelty / press freedom case

  Media release: Tuesday 28 Apr 2026

  The final hearing in the two-year battle between an animal protection organisation and the Victorian slaughterhouse it caught illegally abusing goats, will take place in the High Court in Canberra next week, Tuesday 5 May.  Footage captured covertly by Farm Transparency Project (FTP) over approximately ten days in early 2024, revealing daily breaches of animal welfare legislation at the Game Meats Company slaughterhouse in Eurobin, Victoria, was reported to the federal Department of Agriculture on 3 May 2024. Rather than investigating the complaint, the department tipped off the slaughterhouse management, leading to a court-ordered injunction blocking publication of the footage. Hours-worth of videos...
• DAFF admits to breaching privacy in ongoing slaughterhouse cruelty case

  Media release: Tuesday 3 Mar 2026

  The Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has admitted to breaching the Privacy Act in their handling of an animal cruelty complaint in February 2024. The Department was found to have disclosed personal information of a witness to animal cruelty, to the subject of an animal cruelty complaint, after a director of Farm Transparency Project made a formal complaint about practices at the Game Meats Company slaughterhouse.  After a complaint and investigation by the Department's privacy officer, DAFF admitted to breaching the Privacy Act in their handling of sensitive, protected information, however decided that no further action was required...
• Protest at north-east Victorian slaughterhouse as High Court challenge looms

  Media release: Monday 2 Feb 2026

  Protestors from animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project today gathered outside the Game Meats Company slaughterhouse in Eurobin, Victoria. The protest comes as the slaughterhouse and FTP prepare to face off in the High Court over the publication of footage captured by FTP during a covert investigation in 2024. Around a dozen protestors built a memorial at the gates of the slaughterhouse, remembering the thousands of goats killed inside. Animal protection activists today protested the slaughter of goats at a Game Meats Company slaughterhouse in the north-east Victorian town of Eurobin.  The slaughterhouse has been at the centre of a...
• High Court to hear appeal over Victorian slaughterhouse cruelty footage

  Media release: Thursday 4 Dec 2025

  The High Court of Australia has today granted Farm Transparency Project (FTP) special leave to appeal a decision by the full court of the Federal Court, which awarded the Game Meats Company (GMC) slaughterhouse copyright over footage captured by FTP while trespassing in early 2024. Approximately one in twenty special leave applications are granted.  The High Court will be the final arbiters on this case, with the outcome setting a binding precedent for future animal cruelty investigations in Australia. FTP will argue that the footage, which shows numerous instances of animal cruelty in breach of welfare requirements, as well as...
• Corruption and privacy breaches: DAFF referred over slaughterhouse cruelty mismanagement

  Media release: Wednesday 12 Nov 2025

  The federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) has been referred to the National Anti-Corruption Commission, and a formal complaint lodged over breaches under the Privacy Act, for its bungled handling of serious and illegal animal cruelty at the Game Meats Company (GMC) slaughterhouse in Eurobin, Victoria.  In May 2024, animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project (FTP) submitted an urgent report to DAFF regarding the operations at the slaughterhouse, after hidden camera footage revealed daily cruelty towards goats. DAFF is responsible for monitoring and enforcing compliance with animal welfare standards at export-accredited slaughterhouses such as the Eurobin facility. ...

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