Australian Food Group Abattoir (closed)

• 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 >

• Victorian Abattoir Accepts Responsibility for Animal Welfare Breaches After Activist Footage

  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. Read more >

• Australian Food Group admits responsibility for animal welfare breaches at pig abattoir

  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. Read more >

• Victorian pig abattoir avoids criminal conviction

  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. Read more >

• Gas chamber video leads to charges against pig abattoir

  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. 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 >

• Victorian Parliament announces inquiry into pig welfare after advocates expose systemic animal cruelty

  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 >

• Abattoir at the centre of pig gassing scandal shuts down to avoid mandated CCTV

  Wednesday 26 Apr 2023

  Australian Food Group slaughterhouse in Laverton has shut down rather than installing CCTV mandated by government regulator PrimeSafe, according to a report by ABC. The slaughterhouse was last month at the centre of a national exposé into the use of gas chambers in pig slaughterhouses, after animal advocate Chris Delforce spent almost 10 hours inside the chamber filming the agonising deaths of pigs inside. Delforce says that AFG's choice to stop operating rather than install CCTV inside their chamber is "typical" of an industry unwilling to take accountability, however it represents a "massive win for pigs." One of Victoria's three largest... Read more >

• Activist hid inside deadly gas chamber in Victorian slaughterhouse to film horrific final moments of pigs

  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 >

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