Ban gas chambers: News Coverage

#1. Tuesday 10 Jun 2025 by Eliza Spencer (The Land)

Activists covertly film at NSW abattoirs, igniting debates on animal welfare and transparency. New laws may change the industry landscape.

#2. Sunday 20 Oct 2024 by Bianca Hall (The Age)

The widespread use of “gas chambers” to render pigs unconscious before their slaughter is under a cloud.

#3. Thursday 20 Jun 2024 by Mitch Clarke (Herald Sun)

Victoria’s pork industry could be slapped with “extreme” new guidelines and subject to random on-the-spot compliance checks, but Coalition MPs have called the inquiry process a “political stunt”.

#4. Thursday 20 Jun 2024 by Peter Hunt (The Weekly Times)

Animal Justice Party, Green and Victorian Labor MPs have demanded radical animal welfare reforms, as part of a pig welfare inquiry.

#5. Thursday 20 Jun 2024 by AAP (The Guardian)

State opposition says the inquiry’s 18 recommendations include ‘extreme restrictions’ that should concern all primary producers

#6. Monday 4 Mar 2024 by Geeta Pillai (BNN)

Victorian abattoir Australian Food Group commits to diversion program following exposure of pig slaughter methods by activists.

#7. Monday 4 Mar 2024 by Emma Field (ABC News)

The owner of a Victorian piggery has accepted responsibility for the breaches after an investigation was sparked by video of slaughter practices inside its facilities.

#8. Friday 1 Mar 2024 by Peter Hunt (The Weekly Times)

The court case against an abattoir in Melbourne’s southwest has concluded after animal activist footage led to charges arising from its handling of pigs.

#9. Monday 11 Dec 2023 by Peter Hunt (The Weekly Times)

Animals Australia wants the Supreme Court to rule against gas stunning of pigs, which growers warn would push up pork prices.

#10. Tuesday 5 Dec 2023 by Peter Hunt (The Weekly Times)

Animals Australia has launched legal action to stop pre-slaughter gassing of pigs, while politicians ram through a pig welfare inquiry.

#11. Tuesday 31 Oct 2023 by Peter Hunt (The Weekly Times)

PrimeSafe has charged the Australian Food Group over its handling of pigs, following a Farm Transparency Project investigation.

#12. Wednesday 25 Oct 2023 by Blair Thomson (The Land)

Police are not investigating incident as no complaint made.

#13. Sunday 8 Oct 2023 by Alexi Demetriadi (The Australian)

A push to allow the publication of “horrific” footage of mistreatment of animals, including that of pigs being stun-gassed across slaughterhouses, is afoot in NSW.

#14. Wednesday 3 May 2023 by Peter Hunt (Weekly Times)

Diamond Valley Pork, which processes 13,500 pigs a week, is under investigation by federal authorities over animal welfare claims.

#15. Wednesday 3 May 2023 by Peter Hunt (Weekly Times)

Gas stunning of pigs causes panic and pain for an average 22 seconds, but alternatives such as electrocution and captive-bolts are just as problematic.

#16. Wednesday 26 Apr 2023 by Lauren Day (ABC News)

Warning: This story contains content that may distress some readers. A pig abattoir has ceased operations amid a formal investigation into "serious and disturbing allegations" of mistreatment of animals, including one pig having its testicles torn off by machinery.

#17. Monday 17 Apr 2023 by Ryan Malcolm (Wangaratta Chronicle)

Seven protesters who chained themselves to equipment at the Benalla abattoirs on Thursday morning will face court at a later date, after they were arrested on trespass offences.

#18. Saturday 15 Apr 2023 by Polly Foreman (Plant Based News)

Animal activists from Farm Transparency Project (FTP) have occupied machines used to gas pigs at a slaughterhouse in Northern Victoria, Australia. 

#19. Friday 14 Apr 2023 by (Sheep Central)

SEVEN people have been arrested and charged following a break-in to protest gas stunning of pigs at a Benalla abattoir yesterday.

#20. Friday 14 Apr 2023 by Jason Gregory (The Weekly Times)

Protesters have been charged after allegedly chaining themselves to machinery and hiding in a “gas chamber”, as industry calls for the full force of law to come down.

#21. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by (ABC TV News)

Prime-time TV news coverage of Farm Transparency Project's shut-down and protest at the Benalla slaughterhouse in northern Victoria, on 13 April 2023.

#22. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by (7 TV News)

Prime-time TV news coverage of Farm Transparency Project's shut-down and protest at the Benalla slaughterhouse in northern Victoria, on 13 April 2023.

#23. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by (7 TV News)

Prime-time TV news coverage of Farm Transparency Project's shut-down and protest at the Benalla slaughterhouse in northern Victoria, on 13 April 2023.

#24. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by (9 TV News)

Prime-time TV news coverage of Farm Transparency Project's shut-down and protest at the Benalla slaughterhouse in northern Victoria, on 13 April 2023.

#25. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Adrian Black (Bendigo Advertiser)

Seven people have been arrested after animal rights activists blockaded a Victorian abattoir to protest the use of carbon dioxide to stun pigs before slaughter.

#26. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Adrian Black (Goulburn Post)

Seven people have been arrested after animal rights activists blockaded a Victorian abattoir to protest the use of...

#27. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Hugo Timms (Herald Sun)

Dozens of vegan activists have chained themselves to an abattoir while describing the facility as a “gas chamber”.

#28. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Hugo Timms (News.com.au)

Dozens of vegan activists have chained themselves to an abattoir while describing the facility as a “gas chamber”.

#29. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Monique Preston and Simon Ruppert (Riverine Herald)

Seven people have been charged after about 30 protesters chained themselves to equipment inside Benalla Abattoirs in the early hours of Thursday morning.

#30. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Simon Ruppert (Shepparton News)

Up to 30 members of protest group Farm Transparency Project halted work at the Benalla abattoir after infiltrating the facility early on Thursday, April 13.

#31. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Rachel Simmonds (Farm Online)

Victoria Police have allegedly responded to an animal rights protest at a Benalla abattoir.

#32. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Simon Ruppert (Benalla Ensign)

Up to 30 members of protest group Farm Transparency Project halted work at the Benalla abattoir after infiltrating the facility early on Thursday, April 13.

#33. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Hugo Timms (The West Australian / NCA NewsWire)

Seven vegan activists have been arrested following a graphic stunt at a Victorian abattoir, where they chained themselves to metal railings.

#34. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by (3AW Mornings)

Farmers have backed a move by protesters to stop stunning pigs in gas chambers prior to slaughter. About 30 animal activists broke into Benalla Abbatoir and some chained themselves to the gas chamber which is used to paralyse pigs.

#35. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by (3AW Mornings)

A protest that’s halted operations at an abattoir in Victoria’s north has stretched into its 10th hour. About 30 animal activists broke in to Benalla Abattoir, with some chaining themselves to the gas chamber which is used to paralyse pigs.

#36. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Jane McNaughton (ABC News)

Seven animal activists have been charged with trespassing after they allegedly broke into an abattoir in Benalla and chained themselves to machinery.

#37. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Blair Thomson (Central Western Daily)

Police officers and other emergency service workers are at an abattoir after activists locked themselves inside.

#38. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Blair Thomson (Lismore City News)

Police officers and other emergency service workers are at an abattoir after activists locked themselves inside. Photographs released by the protest group on Thursday morning show people sitting inside machinery at the Firth Road meatworks, in Benalla, Victoria.

#39. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Blair Thomson (The Border Mail)

UPDATE: A protest at the Benalla abattoir has concluded with multiple people charged with trespassing and other offences.

#40. Thursday 13 Apr 2023 by Mitch Clarke (Herald Sun)

Seven protesters have been charged after allegedly chaining themselves to machinery as part of an animal rights protest in the state’s northeast, while the Premier has said he wasn’t aware of any breaches of standards at the facility.

#41. Thursday 30 Mar 2023 by Christopher Knaus (The Guardian Australia)

Australia’s two supermarket giants source pork from Victorian abattoirs depicted in “horrific” footage recording the effects of carbon dioxide gassing on pigs prior to slaughter.

#42. Tuesday 28 Mar 2023 by Lauren Day (ABC News)

There are calls for greater scrutiny of the pork industry after the ABC's 7.30 program airs video of pigs being stunned by carbon dioxide before slaughter.

#43. Tuesday 28 Mar 2023 by Eli Green (Daily Telegraph)

New hidden camera footage has revealed the way pigs are killed for their meat in Australia may be much less humane than previously thought.

#44. Tuesday 28 Mar 2023 by Rachael Ward (AAP)

The peak body for Australian pork farmers will review confronting footage which appears to show pigs squealing inside abattoirs before being killed.

#45. Tuesday 28 Mar 2023 by Michael Dahlstrom (Yahoo News)

Warning - confronting video. Activist Chris Delforce filmed pigs being gassed before slaughter inside an Australian abattoir. Source: Farm Transparency Project

#46. Tuesday 28 Mar 2023 by Writing Liberation (Medium)

On March 27th footage was aired on ABC’s 7:30, which showed in graphic detail the process of stunning inflicted on pigs farmed for their flesh. Modified atmospheric stunning (MAS) utilises…

#47. Tuesday 28 Mar 2023 by Alexandra Laskie (Weekly Times)

The Australian pig industry has defended its use of carbon dioxide gas to stun pre-slaughter after damning footage aired on television.

#48. Monday 27 Mar 2023 by Eli Green (News.com.au)

New hidden camera footage has revealed the way pigs are killed for their meat in Australia may be much less humane than previously thought.

#49. Monday 27 Mar 2023 by Lauren Day (ABC News)

The use of carbon dioxide to stun pigs before slaughter is legal and widespread – but activists believe the industry doesn't want you to know what it looks like.