News & Media: 'Horrific, but legal': Undercover footage from abattoir shows animals being mistreated as they are pushed into gas chambers - as calls grow to put whistleblowers behind bars

'Horrific, but legal': Undercover footage from abattoir shows animals being mistreated as they are pushed into gas chambers - as calls grow to put whistleblowers behind bars

By Alana Mazzoni | Daily Mail Australia
Thu 29 August 2019, 12:00am
  • Footage shows pigs and goats being put inside carbon dioxide gas chambers 
  • It also appears to show workers twist cows' tails to force them to walk
  • The video was recorded by a university student on placement at the facility
  • The NSW Govt introduced fines of up to $220,000 for those who trespass farms 
  • The state government are now also seeking to add jail terms of up to three years 

Undercover footage has been released from a Sydney slaughterhouse amid a NSW and Federal Government push to put activist whistleblowers behind bars. 

The new footage was taken on a hidden body-camera by a university student on placement at a Sydney abattoir. 

Animal rights groups Aussie Farms and Animals Within released the graphic 25-minute video, showing pigs and goats being forced into carbon dioxide gas chambers.

It also shows a pig being shot at least eight times, and workers appearing to twist cows' tails to force them to walk into a knockbox...

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