Game Meats Company Abattoir
An export-accreduted, multi-species slaughterhouse in Eurobin, north-eastern Victoria. Hidden camera footage published by Farm Transparency Project in early 2024 reveals the brutal stunning and slaughter of hundreds of goats. Animals in the footage are seen jumping free of the restraint used to immobilise them before stunning and escaping into the kill room, where other goats are having their throats slit. Several goats show clear signs of consciousness, including blinking, lifting their heads and crying out, even while their throats are being slit and their heads and hooves removed.
Also captured is the slaughter of newborn goats, who are painfully electrocuted after being left in a plastic bucket for hours. One baby goat is captured crying out in pain for over two hours after an unsuccessful stunning attempt left them partially paralysed.
The slaughterhouse also sporadically kills deer, and has in the past killed emus and ostriches.
UPDATE 17/5/2024: The footage of animal cruelty captured at the Game Meats Company abattoir in Eurobin, Victoria, has been temporarily removed to comply with an order by the Federal Court of Australia. The slaughterhouse has been granted a temporary injunction by the court to block the publication of the damning footage. You can help us fight this censorship by contributing to or sharing our crowdfunding campaign.
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The Game Meats Trial so far - #RighttoKnow
Friday 11 Oct 2024 by
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No injunction against slaughter video would ‘invite anarchy’
Thursday 5 Sep 2024 by
A Victorian abattoir is seeking a permanent injunction and a potential six-figure sum for damages against an animal activist group. See the details. Read more >
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Slaughterhouse video taken by 'extreme' animal activists amounts to 'ongoing trespass', federal court told
Tuesday 3 Sep 2024 by
Closing arguments in a landmark case brought by a Victorian abattoir against an animal advocacy charity were heard at the federal court of Australia on Tuesday. Read more >
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Victorian abattoir in legal battle against slaughter video
Friday 9 Aug 2024 by
Key witnesses have taken the stand in a Federal Court trial regarding whether animal activists can publish footage from inside a slaughterhouse. Read more >
Media releases by FTP (5)
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Federal Court denies injunction on animal slaughter footage
Thursday 19 Dec 2024
The Federal Court has refused to block the publication of footage of the slaughter of animals, which was illegally obtained by animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project earlier this year at the Game Meats Company slaughterhouse in Eurobin, Victoria. The organisation will be allowed to publish the footage - which contains evidence of animal cruelty and illegal activity - once the month-long appeal window has passed. The judgment follows a five-day trial in July where FTP admitted to trespassing at the facility and installing hidden cameras to capture footage of the slaughter of goats. In its judgment handed down... Read more >
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Open letter to Prime Minister, signed by senator and state MPs, calls for independent regulation of animal slaughter
Thursday 24 Oct 2024
Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Cassy O’Connor and Abigail Boyd join state MPs to call for independent oversight of Australian slaughterhouses Farm Transparency Project, who wrote the letter, says that the government has failed to appropriately investigate hundreds of cases of alleged animal cruelty. The organisation is accusing the government department of corruption, claiming that their actions have raised doubts about their integrity and suitability to monitor and regulate animal welfare. Read the open letter View photos and footage An open letter, signed by a senator, several state MPs and animal protection organisations, is calling on the Prime Minister's office... Read more >
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Open letter regarding inadequacy and corruption of abattoir regulator
Thursday 24 Oct 2024
Dear Mr Albanese, I am writing on behalf of Farm Transparency Project, a non-profit animal protection organisation focused on raising public awareness about commercial animal farming and slaughter practices through comprehensive investigations into Australian animal use facilities. Over the past decade, our organisation has investigated a number of facilities and practices, catalysing significant animal welfare reforms. In recent years, this has included: Publishing footage of the foothold trapping and killing of native dingoes in Victoria by government contractors, stimulating debate and likely contributing to the Victorian government ending the practice in parts of the state. Investigating the failed phase-out of... Read more >
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'Right to Know': landmark slaughterhouse cruelty trial begins in Federal Court
Monday 5 Aug 2024
A landmark legal trial has begun this week in the Federal Court of Australia, to determine whether animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project will be restricted from publishing footage from a Victorian slaughterhouse operated by the Game Meats Company. In May, The Game Meats Company sought an urgent court order against Farm Transparency Project to censor the publication of hidden camera footage showing the slaughter of hundreds of goats at their slaughterhouse in northeast Victoria. Farm Transparency Project says that this lawsuit is an attempt by the slaughterhouse to hide its practices from the public, and that Farm Transparency will... Read more >
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Animal advocates sued by slaughterhouse to block cruelty footage
Monday 20 May 2024
Farm Transparency Project is being sued by a northern Victorian slaughterhouse, after it gave the government footage showing acts of extreme animal cruelty at the slaughterhouse and published that footage on its website The slaughterhouse sought an urgent order from the Federal Court to block the footage from being published, without notifying Farm Transparency Project Farm Transparency has taken down the footage to comply with the order but intends to defend its right to publish it Prominent animal advocacy organisation Farm Transparency Project is being sued by the Game Meats Company, a slaughterhouse in Eurobin, Victoria, following the release of... Read more >
ABN Lookup
| ABN | 84 095 440 823 (open lookup) |
| Entity name | THE GAME MEATS COMPANY OF AUSTRALIA PTY LTD |
| ABN status | Active from 20 March 2001 |
| Entity type | Australian Private Company |
| Goods & Services Tax (GST) | Registered from 01 April 2001 |
| Main business location |
VIC 3739 from 01 November 2007 VIC 3738 from 20 March 2001 to 01 November 2007 |
| ABN last updated | 03 November 2007 |
| Extracted from ABR | 21 December 2024 |
