JBS Pork Australia (formerly Diamond Valley Pork)

• EMAIL: Help us shut down slaughterhouses

  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... Act now >

• Test case could spell the end of abattoir gas chambers

  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 >

• Victoria’s pork industry could be slapped with new guidelines and on-the-spot checks

  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 >

• CCTV should be mandatory in Victorian piggeries, parliamentary inquiry finds | Rural Australia | The Guardian

  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 >

• Pig welfare inquiry: call to end gas stunning and CCTV on farms

  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 >

• NSW push to amend surveillance act for exemptions amid ‘horrific’ pig gassing footage

  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 >

• Open letter to Prime Minister, signed by senator and state MPs, calls for independent regulation of animal slaughter

  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 >

• Open letter regarding inadequacy and corruption of abattoir regulator

  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 >

• 15 animal activists charged over April slaughterhouse occupation, as pig welfare inquiry looms

  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 >

• Animal activists vow to break into and expose 30 slaughterhouses over two years to force industry transparency

  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 >

• Animal rights campaigners hold candlelight vigil and memorial to remember pigs killed in gas chambers

  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 >

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