Scottsdale Pork
New footage has been released showing the slaughter of pigs at Scottsdale Pork slaughterhouse, owned by members of the controversial religious group, the 'Exclusive' Brethren. The footage shows pigs being hit across the face and body, kicked and crushed with heavy metal doors by workers, as well as apparently conscious pigs being tipped into a tank of scalding water, after having their throats slit.
Scottsdale Pork was built in 2020-21 after the closure of JBS Devonport, Tasmania’s only dedicated pig slaughterhouse. Despite being a private abattoir, primarily servicing Scottsdale Pork’s own nearby piggery, Tasmania’s Liberal government granted $2 million to Scottsdale Pork to assist in the build. This decision was heavily opposed by the Greens Party, due to the company's ties to the Exclusive Brethren religious group, whose leader holds widely documented transphobic and homophobic views and is a major donor and supporter of the Liberal party.
In September 2023, investigators from Farm Transparency Project installed covert cameras to document the slaughter of pigs at the facility, including the use of electrical stunning, which is considered to be an alternative to the carbon dioxide gas chambers used in the majority of pig slaughterhouses Australia wide.
The footage shows one pig making a desperate attempt to escape, leaping from the stunning restraint and running across the floor of the kill room. That pig is cornered by multiple workers and shot in the head with a bolt gun, before having their throat slit. They die, thrashing in agony on the floor of the kill room.
Also known as Ten Mile Enterprises Meat Facility.
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Government accepts taskforce recommendations for abattoirs and will increase monitoring
Monday 11 Nov 2024 by
The government has released the recommendations of a taskforce it set up in the wake of distressing footage of alleged animal cruelty at abattoirs. Read the latest. Read more >
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Tasmanian reforms promise better animal welfare by 2025
Sunday 10 Nov 2024 by
Tasmania adopts 11 of 12 taskforce reforms for better animal welfare in abattoirs by 2025, enhancing humane practices and boosting surveillance. Read more >
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Greens claim the government is "dragging its feet" on a report
Wednesday 17 Apr 2024 by
The state government has held firm against claims that it's "dragging its feet" on a taskforce report into Tasmanian slaughterhouses. Read more >
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Action not happening fast enough six months on from ‘shocking’ slaughterhouse videos: Greens
Tuesday 16 Apr 2024 by
Six months ago, animal activists released ‘disturbing’ videos shot in Tasmanian slaughterhouses — Greens leader Rosalie Woodruff says more action is needed immediately. Read more >
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Farm Transparency Project's virtual tours campaign in Tasmania
Wednesday 20 Mar 2024 by
Take a digital tour inside Tasmanian meat processing facilities with FTP's latest campaign advocating for animal welfare. Read more >
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Liberals sitting on abattoir cruelty taskforce, Greens claim
Saturday 16 Mar 2024 by
Latest on Tasmanian abattoir animal cruelty taskforce findings amid election season. Greens, Liberals clash over reforms. Read more >
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Did Farm Transparency Project Just Help Topple a Government?
Thursday 15 Feb 2024 by
When activists with Farm Transparency Project first walked into the Tasmanian Quality Meats slaughterhouse in the dead of night, they had no idea that the project they were embarking on would be a significant contributing factor in toppling the Tasmanian Liberal government... Read more >
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Tasmania to mandate CCTV in abattoirs to stop animal cruelty
Wednesday 31 Jan 2024 by
Investigation into Tasmania's abattoirs exposed animal abuse allegations. Government creates livestock taskforce and considers new regulations to improve animal welfare. Read more >
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Scottsdale Pork - A pig slaughterhouse at the intersection of political corruption and bigotry
Saturday 13 Jan 2024 by
In October 2007 two elders from a secretive religious sect, the Exclusive Brethren, were granted permanent access to the ministers and backbenchers of the Federal Liberal Party as lobbyists. Their passes were granted with the sponsorship of two people; former minister Danna Vale and the member for the Tasmanian seat of Bass Michael Ferguson. By Kristy Alger Read more >
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Calls for closure: Activists allege more animal cruelty at Scottsdale Pork meat facility
Thursday 11 Jan 2024 by
Additional footage showing what activists allege to be instances of animal cruelty at yet another Tasmanian abattoir has been released. The Farm Transparency Project (FTP) released the footage on Thursday they say was captured at the Ten Mile Enterprises Meat Facility in Springfield, owned by Scottsdale Pork. Read more >
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Footage of alleged animal cruelty at Scottsdale Pork-owned Ten Mile Enterprises Meat Facility released
Thursday 11 Jan 2024 by
‘Confronting to watch the systemic cruelty,’ Greens say. Footage from a Tasmanian abattoir emerges showing alleged animal cruelty including conscious pigs ‘lowered into a scalding tank’. Read more >
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Activist Group Exposes Animal Cruelty in Tasmanian Slaughterhouse
Thursday 11 Jan 2024 by
Secret footage reveals conscious pigs being mistreated and killed in Scottsdale Pork, demanding closure of the facility. Read more >
Media releases by FTP (4)
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Activists publish interactive virtual tours of Tasmanian slaughterhouses
Tuesday 19 Mar 2024
Animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project (FTP) has published interactive virtual tours of two Tasmanian slaughterhouses recently exposed for cruelty The tours were filmed with 360-degree cameras inside Tasmanian Quality Meats at Cressy, and Scottsdale Pork, during FTP's covert investigation last year With the state election just days away, FTP has published the tours - which incorporate footage from hidden cameras - to draw attention to months of inaction by the Rockliff government Farm Transparency Project (FTP) has published on its website two interactive virtual slaughterhouse tours, filmed last year with 360° cameras inside the Tasmanian Quality Meats and Scottsdale Pork... Read more >
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Slaughterhouse owned by controversial 'Exclusive Brethren' leader, under fire for corruption and animal abuse
Thursday 11 Jan 2024
New footage from Scottsdale Pork slaughterhouse in Tasmania shows pigs being tipped into scalding water while apparently conscious, and showing signs of consciousness, including blinking, after their throats have been slit. Farm Transparency Project, who captured and released the footage, are claiming that the abattoir was built as a result of government corruption and "shady backroom deals," and are demanding its closure in the wake of the footage. Scottsdale Pork is owned by members of the Plymouth Brethren (known as the Exclusive Brethren) religious group, and was built in 2020-2021 after receiving 2 million dollars of government funding. View footage and... Read more >
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Statement in Response to Tasmanian Slaughterhouse Announcement
Thursday 14 Dec 2023
All talk, little action The Tasmanian government has just released their response to our shocking exposé of Tasmanian slaughterhouses, and its far from the decisive action they pledged to take just four days ago. Rather than responding to evidence of systemic animal abuse immediately, the government has announced that the most they can manage is to re-investigate the facilities and form a task force to consider developing new animal welfare guidelines. Given that all five slaughterhouses we investigated were already in breach of existing state and national welfare legislation, we fail to see what developing new ones will manage, except... Read more >
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Major Tasmanian abattoir suspended and four more under investigation after animal advocacy group reveals “systemic animal abuse and regulatory breaches”
Friday 8 Dec 2023
View photos and footage: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14oe6RnPEip5M0CMPALvQECagjPiP1tzQ?usp=drive_link Animal advocacy group Farm Transparency Project has released hidden camera footage from five Tasmanian slaughterhouses, in what they’re calling a comprehensive and damning indictment of the state’s animal welfare regulators. The footage shows the slaughter of sheep, cows, deer, pigs and week-old ‘bobby calves’ from the dairy industry. Many animals are revealed to be killed while fully conscious, including dozens of bobby calves who are captured dying slowly over minutes as they bleed out. Farm Transparency Project is working with... Read more >
