Diamond Valley Pork

Across 2023 and 2024, our team documented and filmed conditions at 30 slaughterhouses across fjve states in Australia, the largest investigation into animal slaughter in the countries history. We exposed systemic suffering and abuse in over 10% of Australia's animal slaughter facilities, revealing the reality which is hidden by labels such as 'humane,' and 'high welfare.' Through thousands of hours of footage from hidden cameras, we showed that no animal goes to their death calmly or willingly; there is always pain, there is always fear and there is always suffering.  The mass slaughter of intelligent, sentient animals has no place within our... Act now >

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. Read more >

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”. Read more >

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 Read more >

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. Read more >

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. Read more >

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. Read more >

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. Read more >

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. Read more >

Wednesday 19 Apr 2023 by Farm Transparency Project (editorial)

From the 2nd - 7th April, 2023 Farm Transparency Project organised a week of actions to build momentum around our campaign to ban gas chambers, which had launched at the end of March. The week involved rallies, outreach and slaughterhouse shutdown before culminating in a march through Melbourne CBD. The following week, 25 people shut down Benalla slaughterhouse in response to a complete lack of action from the government, slaughterhouses and the Australian pork industry. Read more >

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. Read more >

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. Read more >

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. Read more >

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. Read more >

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 Read more >

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… Read more >

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. Read more >

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. Read more >

Monday 27 Mar 2023 by Farm Transparency Project (editorial)

In early 2023, our investigators captured footage from inside Victoria's three largest pig slaughterhouses, revealing the terrifying final moments of pigs subjected to deadly gas chambers. This is the story of how we did it and why we won't stop. Read more >

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. Read more >

Monday 7 Dec 2015 by (The Guardian)

"From their first lungful of gas, these pigs are burning from the inside out," Animal Liberation Victoria says of carbon dioxide stunning technique. Read more >

Monday 7 Dec 2015 by Christopher Talbot and Jamie Duncan (The Australian)

Pigs suffer distress and struggle to breath and escape when gassed with carbon dioxide at abattoirs, RSPCA Australia says. Read more >

Monday 7 Dec 2015 by Andrea Hamblin (Herald Sun)

A two-year undercover investigation by animal activists reveals shocking footage on the widespread practice of killing pigs by carbon dioxide. Read more >

Monday 7 Dec 2015 by Liam Quinn (Daily Mail Australia)

Confronting footage of pigs apparently being forced into 'gas chambers' as they scream and try to escape before they are gutted and drained of blood has been captured by a group of animal activists. Read more >

Monday 7 Dec 2015 by Debra Killalea (News.com.au)

THEY are pictured thrashing about, desperately trying to escape and their death is slow and excruciating. Read more >

Monday 7 Dec 2015 by Daniella Miletic and Rania Spooner (The Age)

Animal rights activists chained themselves to a Victorian pig slaughterhouse 'gas chamber' on Monday morning to protest against carbon dioxide stunning in the pork industry. Read more >

Thursday 24 Oct 2024

Senator Mehreen Faruqi, Cassy O’Connor and Abigail Boyd join state MPs to call for independent oversight of Australian slaughterhouses Farm Transparency Project, who wrote the letter, says that the government has failed to appropriately investigate hundreds of cases of alleged animal cruelty. The organisation is accusing the government department of corruption, claiming that their actions have raised doubts about their integrity and suitability to monitor and regulate animal welfare. Read the open letter View photos and footage An open letter, signed by a senator, several state MPs and animal protection organisations, is calling on the Prime Minister's office... Read more >

Thursday 24 Oct 2024

Dear Mr Albanese, I am writing on behalf of Farm Transparency Project, a non-profit animal protection organisation focused on raising public awareness about commercial animal farming and slaughter practices through comprehensive investigations into Australian animal use facilities. Over the past decade, our organisation has investigated a number of facilities and practices, catalysing significant animal welfare reforms. In recent years, this has included: Publishing footage of the foothold trapping and killing of native dingoes in Victoria by government contractors, stimulating debate and likely contributing to the Victorian government ending the practice in parts of the state. Investigating the failed phase-out of... Read more >

Friday 10 Nov 2023

15 animal activists have been charged with trespass, seven months after they occupied a Benalla slaughterhouse in a protest against the use of gas chambers in pig slaughterhouses. The protest, which happened on April 13th, was in response to an investigation of three Victorian pig slaughterhouses, which revealed pigs screaming, thrashing and gasping for air inside carbon dioxide gas chambers. Seven protestors were arrested and charged on the day, while the remaining 15 were allowed to leave voluntarily, after chains and other devices they were using to lock-on were removed by police. 15 animal rights protestors have been charged with trespass after shutting... Read more >

Monday 10 Jul 2023

Animal advocate Chris Delforce has today announced that his organisation, Farm Transparency Project, plans to break into 30 slaughterhouses over the next two years, to capture and expose footage of Australian animal slaughter to the public. Delforce, who earlier this year shared groundbreaking new footage of pigs being gassed to death in Victorian slaughterhouses after hiding in a gas chamber, stated that his organisation has already investigated six slaughterhouses this year, and will be releasing a new investigation this week. Footage from three new Australian slaughterhouses is promised over the next few weeks, with Delforce sharing that Farm Transparency Project has... Read more >

Saturday 17 Jun 2023

Campaigners held an early-morning vigil outside Diamond Valley Pork while pigs were being killed in the gas chamber inside They followed this with an evening memorial in Melbourne CBD where they lay to rest the bodies of three piglets who they say represent the millions of pigs killed in Australian slaughterhouses every year  The protests were part of a national weekend of action calling for a federal inquiry into pig slaughter methods and a ban on the use of gas chambers in Australian slaughterhouses  Animal rights campaigners from Farm Transparency Project have organised a candlelight slaughterhouse vigil and city memorial... Read more >

Thursday 25 May 2023

A Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into pig welfare has been announced less than two months after investigators from Farm Transparency Project released shocking footage of pigs being gassed to death in Victorian slaughterhouses.  Read more >

Monday 27 Mar 2023

Prominent animal advocate Chris Delforce hid inside one of the pork industry’s “humane” carbon dioxide gas chambers to document the gassing of pigs. New footage captured by Farm Transparency Project inside Victoria’s three largest slaughterhouses, revealed exclusively on ABC’s 7.30 program last night, shows thousands of pigs screaming and thrashing in agony as they are lowered into the gas.  This investigation comes 9 years after Delforce first used hidden cameras to expose the use of gas chambers for pigs; the first time in the world that the widespread practice had been captured on camera. He says it “has only... Read more >