Name: Wal's Bulk Meats
Address: 5 Warra Rd, Stowport TAS 7321, Australia
LGA/Council: Burnie Council
Council email: [email protected]
Council phone: (03) 6430 5700
Summary: Wal's Bulk Meats is a slaughterhouse located in Stowport, TAS Australia.
Categories:
Species:
Last known status: Open and operating
Listing updated: 2024
Listing ID: 0b0eb
View on map: Farm Transparency Map
Google Maps
Bing Maps
Nearmap (requires subscription)

Hidden camera footage captured in August-September 2023 reveals extreme animal suffering as well as broken or ineffective machinery and injuries to workers. 

The footage shows the slaughter of pigs, cows, sheep and deer, who are stunned using a rifle or an electric stunner, which is revealed to be frequently broken and amateurly repaired by workers. Cows are seen to be shot in the head up to six times, while bellowing in pain, then jumped on by workers to force them into the kill room. One worker is chased into the enclosed stunning race by a frightened and enraged cow, and has to quickly climb out through narrow metal bars while the cow attempts to attack them. Another worker is kicked across the stomach and chest by a cow who has become stuck in the knockbox after being shot multiple times. 

The footage also shows sheep and pigs being stunned and slaughtered inside the kill room. Dozens of sheep are seen being electrocuted multiple times, or shot with a rifle when the electric stunner stops working, which happens a number of times. One sheep jumps into the kill room and attempts to run. They are dragged by the legs and sat on by a worker, before having their throat slit while fully conscious. 

As of January 2024, Wal's Bulk Meats is being investigated by Biosecurity Tasmania for breaches of animal welfare legislation.

Campaigns (1)

Photos (67)

Videos (11)

Documents (0)

No documents found for this facility. Add some now?

Campaign materials (0)

No campaign materials found for this facility. Add some now?

News (7)

Media releases by FTP (3)

  • More footage shows animal cruelty and dangerous conditions at Stowport slaughterhouse

    Monday 22 Jan 2024

    New covert camera footage captured at Wal's Bulk Meats in Stowport, shows workers jumping on cows, sheep killed without stunning, cows shot multiple times with a rifle while crying out in pain and workers being kicked and chased by animals.  The group behind the footage, Farm Transparency Project, say that they were tipped-off about animal cruelty at the facility by an anonymous whistleblower. The group describes the footage they have released today as "revealing not only systemic and severe animal suffering, but exposing unsafe working conditions and absolute incompetence by workers." Wal’s is the fourth Tasmanian slaughterhouse exposed by... Read more >

  • Statement in Response to Tasmanian Slaughterhouse Announcement

    Thursday 14 Dec 2023

    All talk, little action The Tasmanian government has just released their response to our shocking exposé of Tasmanian slaughterhouses, and its far from the decisive action they pledged to take just four days ago. Rather than responding to evidence of systemic animal abuse immediately, the government has announced that the most they can manage is to re-investigate the facilities and form a task force to consider developing new animal welfare guidelines. Given that all five slaughterhouses we investigated were already in breach of existing state and national welfare legislation, we fail to see what developing new ones will manage, except... Read more >

  • Major Tasmanian abattoir suspended and four more under investigation after animal advocacy group reveals “systemic animal abuse and regulatory breaches”

    Friday 8 Dec 2023

    View photos and footage: https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/14oe6RnPEip5M0CMPALvQECagjPiP1tzQ?usp=drive_link Animal advocacy group Farm Transparency Project has released hidden camera footage from five Tasmanian slaughterhouses, in what they’re calling a comprehensive and damning indictment of the state’s animal welfare regulators.  The footage shows the slaughter of sheep, cows, deer, pigs and week-old ‘bobby calves’ from the dairy industry. Many animals are revealed to be killed while fully conscious, including dozens of bobby calves who are captured dying slowly over minutes as they bleed out. Farm Transparency Project is working with... Read more >

Do you have additional information about this facility? You can submit it for review here.