Latest Investigation
Published: Sun 25 May 2025
The 30th slaughterhouse to be investigated and exposed as part of Farm Transparency Project's "Shut Down Slaughterhouses" campaign.
Hidden cameras installed by FTP in November 2024 reveal the aggressive use of electric prodders to move sheep, goats, cattle, pigs and young piglets; workers throwing, kicking, and smacking animals with metal tools; extremely poor and ineffective use of 'stunning' devices causing prolonged agony; animals being killed while conscious, some having escaped the restraint; a conscious pig drowning in a scalding tank; and the use of a carbon dioxide gas chamber for pigs, a system now notorious for its cruelty.
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Hidden cameras installed by FTP in November 2024 reveal the aggressive use of electric prodders to move sheep, goats, cattle, pigs and young piglets; workers throwing, kicking, and smacking animals with metal tools; extremely poor and ineffective use of 'stunning' devices causing prolonged agony; animals being killed while conscious, some having escaped the restraint; a conscious pig drowning in a scalding tank; and the use of a carbon dioxide gas chamber for pigs, a system now notorious for its cruelty.
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Using the latest in 360 camera technology, we've created groundbreaking interactive virtual tours of major Australian piggeries and slaughterhouses - and we've got more tours of other kinds of animal exploitation facilities on the way. This is industry transparency like you've never seen it before.
Experience what it's like for animals behind closed doors, in highly secretive farms where no members of the public are supposed to see.
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Since 2010 we've been mapping animal exploitation facilities across Australia, including factory farms, slaughterhouses, knackeries, hatcheries, race training centres and more.
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Animals kicked, beaten and killed while conscious at western Victorian slaughterhouse
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Campaign News
THE CHRONICLE: 9 Apr
Yangan’s Carey Bros Abattoir investigated after kill floor footage released
ABC NEWS: 15 Mar
Activists who became a political target have sparked a government probe of slaughterhouses
COUNTRY NEWS: 3 Feb
Animal activist charged over piggery footage
HERALD SUN: 31 Jan
Activist charged over surveillance which led to footage of Bradley O’Reilly allegedly raping pig
HERALD SUN: 29 Jan
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SEYMOUR TELEGRAPH: 29 Jan
Piggery invasions by activist group
SHEPPARTON NEWS: 28 Jan
Local piggeries targeted by animal activists | Shepparton News
9NEWS: 21 Jan
Dead piglets dropped on premier's office doorstep in animal cruelty protest
SKY NEWS: 21 Jan
Vegan activists dump dead piglets outside Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan's office in protest of 'filthy...
NEWS.COM.AU: 21 Jan
Farm Transparency Project protest pig welfare outside Victorian government building
HERALD SUN: 21 Jan
Vegan activists dump dozens of dead piglets outside Premier Jacinta Allan’s office
RIVERINE HERALD: 13 Nov
