Calf on back on restraint

A calf is pushed onto their back in the stunning restraint.

TQM is Tasmania's largest sheep and calf slaughterhouse. In 2023 investigators installed hidden cameras to capture the handling and killing of thousands of calves and sheep. Calves are stunned with an electric stunner to paralyse them before their throats are slit. Many of these calves were so young and weak that they were unable to stand or walk properly, meaning that they were pushed, shoved, carried and dragged to their deaths. Dozens of these calves were stunned ineffectively, or not stunned at all because they were pushed upside down into the restraint or were so small that they fell through the bottom. These calves were tipped into the kill room and had their throats slit while fully conscious, struggling and trying to escape the hands and knife that ended their life.