News & Media: Victorian pig abattoir avoids criminal conviction
Victorian pig abattoir avoids criminal conviction
A Laverton North pig abattoir, at the centre of an animal welfare investigation, has avoided criminal conviction by agreeing to accept responsibility for its actions and paying meat industry regulator PrimeSafe’s court costs of about $30,000.
PrimeSafe charged the Australian Food Group last October over its handling of pigs, after The Farm Transparency Project’s animal activists used hidden cameras inside the abattoir to record pigs being herded into CO2 gas chambers, where they then thrashed about gasping for air as they were stunned.
