Aberdeen Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #50214)
Species:
Categories: Slaughterhouse
Last known status: Closed
Address: Moray Street, Aberdeen NSW 2336, Australia

AD Meats (Alexander Downs) (Slaughterhouse, #tfm56)
Species: Cows/cattle, Pigs
Categories: Slaughterhouse
Last known status: Open and operating
Address: 183 Main Rd, Kurri Kurri NSW 2327, Australia
"In 2016, Alexander Downs purchased a domestic meat processing facility at Kurri Kurri. With this acquisition, Alexander Downs controls every detail from our paddocks in the Hunter Valley, to your customer’s plate. Our products can be tailored to suit your individual needs.
“Alexander Downs don’t let us down on flavour and tenderness – it’s the same great quality every week…” – David Cornes, 21 Century Meats, Rutherford.
With our highly trained staff on the processing floor and boning room we are able to cater to all your meat specifications and deliver it to your butchery in our refrigerated fleet of trucks throughout the Hunter Valley and regions beyond.
“We get the same top quality from Alexander Down’s week in week out and in my business, providing consistent quality it everything.” – Harris Farm, Pennant Hills.
Our meat processing facility welcomes service clientele for beef (dressing at no more than 280kg) and small stock. All livestock are processed following the Australian Standards for the Hygienic Production and Transportation of Meat and Meat Products for Human Consumption and Australian Animal Welfare Standards and Guidelines. Our skilled workforce ensures all carcases are processed to the highest standard in hygiene and dressing. Our refrigerated fleet of transport trucks and skilled team of drivers are able to deliver your meat carcass to your butcher shop of choice. To help us maintain these high standards all livestock must be booked prior to arrival."

Afflick Meats (D & S Afflick) (Slaughterhouse, #ad163)
Species:
Categories: Slaughterhouse
Last known status: Open and operating
Address: 3260 Princes Hwy, Moruya NSW 2537, Australia

Alstonville Poultry Farm (Slaughterhouse, #0a413)
Species:
Last known status: Open and operating
Address: 129 Tuckombil La, Tuckombil NSW 2477, Australia
Submission from Allan B April 2023
'The Alstonville Poultry Farm is no longer operating an abattoir. It only provides point of lay chickens for backyard egg production.'
Unconfirmed

Australian Meat Group (Slaughterhouse, #787f3)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep
Address: 798 Stockinbingal Road, Cootamundra NSW 2590, Australia
Manildra Meat Company purchased the abattoir from GM Scott in 2014. Closed down on 24 Feb 2017:
Reopened in 2023 by Australian Meat Group, killing cattle and sheep.
Has lodged an upgrade proposal in 2025:

BA's Meat & Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #8903b)
Last known status: Closed
Address: 9 SHERIDAN CL, MILPERRA
In liquidation as of Oct 2018:

Baiada Chicken Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #4e936)
Species: Chickens
Address: 642 Great Western Hwy, Girraween

Baiada Poultry Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #0c90b)
Species: Chickens
Address: 125 9 Murphy Road, Hanwood NSW 2680, Australia

Baiada Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #d10e8)
Species: Chickens
Address: 157 Bridge St, West Tamworth NSW 2340, Australia

Bega Valley Gourmet Meats Coop (Slaughterhouse, #82059)
Address: Taylor Road, Buckajo NSW 2550, Australia
Reportedly closed - anonymous submission, Jan 2019 (unconfirmed)

Bindaree Beef Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #97f56)
Species: Cows/cattle
Address: 7307 Gwydir Hwy, Inverell NSW 2360, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Offal)

Bindaree Beef Cooma ( fomerly Monbeef Abattoir) (Slaughterhouse, #cba0e)
Species: Cows/cattle
Address: 123 Carlaminda Rd, Cooma NSW 2630, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Offal)
Bindaree Beef - https://bindareefoodgroup.com.au/
Bindaree acquired the Monbeef facility in Cooma (April 3rd 2025)

Binnaway Meat Processing (Slaughterhouse, #f5963)
Last known status: Closed
Address: 5991 Warrumbungles Way, Wattle Springs NSW 2357, Australia
Closed 2012, reopened May 2015 after purchase by Crown State Pastoral Company: www.theland.com.au/story/3297744/binnaway-abattoir-re-opens, then closed again 2016.
Reopened as Binnaway Meat Processing in 2019:
Company wound up and entered liquidation in December 2023:

Bourke Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #gfkrl)
Species: Goats
Address: Mitchell Hwy, North Bourke NSW 2840, Australia
Goat abattoir.
Up for sale in 2021: https://www.lawd.com.au/property?property_id=581494/bourke
Bought by Thomas Foods International for an undisclosed sum in Nov 2021: https://www.theland.com.au/story/7496898/

Cargill Beef - Tamworth Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #a4080)
Species: Cows/cattle
Address: 99 Phoenix St, Westdale NSW 2340, Australia
www.cargill.com.au

Casino Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #f67d6)
Address: 10615 Summerland Way, Casino NSW 2470, Australia Export Abattoir (Beef, Offal) - www.cassino.com.au

Cassino RSM Processing (Slaughterhouse, #ee3fd)
Species: Pigs
Address: 10 Cudgerie Gully Lane, Booyong NSW 2480, Australia
Export and domestic pig abattoir

Castlereigh Halal Regional Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #k3mdn)
Species: Cows/cattle, Goats, Sheep
Address: 135 Abattoirs Rd, Coonamble NSW 2829, Australia
'The men said that they had already received kill inquiries about cattle, sheep, goats, horses and even a camel.
“We will do all those,” Mr Xu said. “We just won’t be killing pigs as the halal is important to many people and we will need to do that 100% correct.'

Cordina Chicken Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #ccd15)
Address: 104 Magowar Rd Girraween

Corowa Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #d77f6)
Species: Pigs
Address: Jamiesons Road, Redlands NSW 2646, Australia
In February 2014 a small group of investigators entered Corowa slaughterhouse in NSW, which was at that point in time, the largest pig slaughterhouse in the southern hemisphere. At this stage, no one had ever filmed inside of a pig gas chamber before, with only rumours and whispers standing against the industry's promises of peaceful, humane deaths. This was about to change.
Over three days, the investigators installed cameras inside the slaughterhouse, including in the gas chamber itself, revealing, for the first time in the world, the true horror of what was happening inside. The footage launched a new organisation, Farm Transparency Project - then known as Aussie Farms - dedicated to investigating and exposing commercial animal use in Australia, and tearing back the curtain of secrecy that shrouded the breeding, confinement and slaughter of animals used for food, clothing and entertainment. The footage started a ripple effect, featuring in the documentary Lucent and leading to FTP’s founder, Chris Delforce, being raided and charged by the police. This inspired the creation of Dominion, a film which mobilised a movement for change that is still challenging the exploitation of animals today.
Now, almost 10 years later, we’re exposing Corowa again, and this time we know the risks.
So much has changed in the world since 2014, yet behind the walls of this brutal, pig gassing chamber, the horrors never ceased. The terror and suffering of the pigs who are suffocated to death inside this machine is just as horrifying, the casual cruelty of the workers who beat and prod them into the chambers, just as heartbreaking. The only thing that has changed is that, in publishing this, we risk much greater penalties.
But we will not let their stories go untold. We’re sharing this footage as further proof that we need a federal, parliamentary inquiry into the lack of legal protection for farmed animals. We also need each state to immediately take action to ban gas chambers, and shut down the facilities that continue to torture pigs under the label of ‘humane slaughter.’

Cowra Meat Processors (Slaughterhouse, #2135c)
Species: Pigs, Sheep, Goats, Cows/cattle
Address: Olympic Hwy, Cowra NSW 2794, Australia
The 30th slaughterhouse to be investigated and exposed as part of Farm Transparency Project's "Shut Down Slaughterhouses" campaign.
Cowra Meat Processors is a large multi-species slaughterhouse in central west NSW with three separate kill rooms, slaughtering pigs, cows, sheep and goats.
As with all major pig slaughterhouses in Australia, pigs at Cowra are killed in a carbon dioxide gas chamber, a system now notorious for its cruelty. A painful electric stunner is used to immobilise sheep and goats at the end of a 'V restraint' conveyor, while cows, steers, heifers and a small number of calves are shot with either a pneumatic bolt stunner or a handheld bolt gun in a 'knockbox'. Larger pigs who won't fit in the gas chamber, including injured or unproductive breeding sows, are taken to the cattle knockbox.
Hidden cameras installed by FTP in November 2024 reveal the aggressive use of electric prodders to move sheep, goats, cattle, pigs and young piglets; workers throwing, kicking, and smacking animals with metal tools; extremely poor and ineffective use of 'stunning' devices causing prolonged agony; animals being killed while conscious, some having escaped the restraint; and a conscious pig drowning in a scalding tank.
Cowra Meat Processors employs around 200 people and is also known by its retail business, Breakout River Meats. The slaughterhouse had gone into liquidation in August 2006, and was brought back to operation with Breakout River as a major partner in March 2007. Both businesses are owned by Christopher Brian Cummins (Chris Cummins), a climate change denier and conspiracy theorist, who is on record claiming that pigs in his gas chamber feel "absolutely nothing".
In 2012, the facility installed a $15,000 surveillance camera system. The cameras cover the building exteriors, the 'race' areas leading to the kill rooms, and the cattle tipout area, but are otherwise absent from the slaughtering areas and gas chamber.

Deniliquin Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #b7e03)
Address: 417 Cemetery Road, Deniliquin NSW 2710, Australia
Reopened January 2015, working towards 3000 lambs per day, but then closed in 2020 and apparently undergoing demolition.

E.T Chicken Processing (Slaughterhouse, #e9e5e)
Address: 356 Ninth Ave, Llandilo NSW 2747, Australia
At E.T Chicken Processing hundreds of chickens are killed each week in a run-down slaughterhouse surrounded by disused chicken sheds. In November 2024, a team of investigators installed hidden cameras to document this slaughter.
The slaughterhouse kills both 5-7 week old ‘broiler’ chickens, bred for meat, and 18 month old layer hens, whose egg production has begun to slow.
The footage shows crates of already dead chickens being thrown into the bin, and birds being roughly handled by workers. Chickens will frantically flap while being sent into the kill room, with many managing to escape before being recaptured by workers.
Some chickens were shown to remain conscious after stunning, meaning that they are still conscious when their throats are slit.
Just like all animals, these chickens fight for their lives. They do not want to die.
Their lives are the cost of chicken meat and eggs.

EC Throsby Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #97395)
Address: Unnamed Road, Whittingham NSW 2330, Australia

Fletcher International Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #c4a30)
Species: Sheep
Address: Lot 11 Yarrandale Rd, Dubbo NSW 2830, Australia
Export abattoir (sheep)

Former site of Broken Hill Exports (Slaughterhouse, #goozt)
Address: 118 Pinnacles Rd, Broken Hill NSW 2880, Australia
EPA licence surrendered in 2007:
Facility has been demolished and is now a mine.

Fresh Poultry Pty Ltd (Slaughterhouse, #1722a)
Address: Gow Street, Padstow NSW 2211, Australia

Game Farm P/L (Slaughterhouse, #849a2)
Species: Chickens, Ducks, Quail, Turkeys
Address: 51 Crosslands Rd, Galston

Golden Rose Poultry Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #be7fb)
Address: Augusta Street, Blacktown NSW 2148, Australia
Seems to be being used as a junkyard / storage space for the neighbouring Red Lea facility.

Goulburn Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #ed7e2)
Species: Sheep
Address: Mazamet Road, Goulburn NSW 2580, Australia
Export Abattoir (Sheep, Offal)

Griffith Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #206ca)
Address: 18 Mitchell Lane, Griffith NSW 2680, Australia

Gundagai Meat Processors (Slaughterhouse, #0c809)
Species: Sheep, Goats
Address: 2916 Gocup Rd, South Gundagai NSW 2722, Australia
Export Abattoir (Sheep, Goat, Offal)

Halal chicken slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #1853a)
Address: 26 Bellfield Avenue, Rossmore NSW

Harden Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #04810)
Address: 69 Saleyards Rd, Harden NSW 2587, Australia
Closed permanently in 2006.

Hawkesbury Valley Meats (Slaughterhouse, #d18fb)
Species: Pigs, Cows/cattle, Sheep, Goats
Address: 11 David St, Wilberforce NSW 2756, Australia
Animal Liberation NSW captured footage on CCTV at Hawkesbury Valley Abattoir between the dates of 13th and 20th January, 2012. This footage captured several shocking animal abuses in breach of the Food Regulation 2010 act, and the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1979.
The events captured in this video show inadequate stunning of animals resulting in them being 'stuck' (throats cut) whilst conscious and bleeding out. The footage shows incidents of animals showing 'sensibility' after having their throats cut, such as raising their heads and arching their backs. Animals are seen skinned alive due to inadequate stunning.
Two pigs are beaten with a metal pole after failing to be rendered unconscious from stunning. The pole appears to have a regular slot which indicates this is a normal procedure at this abattoir. These blows are unlikely to render the pigs unconscious, therefore they suffer the full blow of each strike. One pig was hit 13 times.
Cows are seen very excessively shocked with electric prodders as they move through the race. Electric prodders are seen as a last resort in this industry, however the footage shows this method being used when the cows have nowhere further to move. This is considered 'torture' under the Act. The video captures incidences of cows being shocked all over their bodies including the face and in the hind region between the legs.
After recieving this footage and visiting on site, Police and the Food Authority had Hawkesbury Valley Abattoir immediately shut down on February 9th, 2012. The footage captured by Animal Liberation was wholly instrumental in exposing this cruelty.
Unfortunately, the suspension on Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors' licence was lifted by the NSW Food Authority, allowing it to recommence operations at its facility in Wilberforce from Monday 12 March 2012, after being closed for only one month.
Following the exposure of Hawkesbury Valley Meats Abattoir, all red meat abattoirs in NSW had their operations reviewed by the NSW government - and all were found to have animal welfare breaches.
In May 2013, Hawkesbury Valley Meat Processors was fined $60000 after pleading guilty to five charges of animal cruelty relating to sheep, pigs, cattle and goats processed in January and February of 2012. Windsor Local Court magistrate Margot Stubbs told court the acts were "sickening" and at the "gross end of inhumane conduct".

Hilltop Meats (formerly Burrangong Meats) (Slaughterhouse, #d0ae6)
Address: 13 Scenic Rd, Young NSW 2594, Australia
Closed in 2010, reopened in 2014 killing sheep and cattle (no longer killing pigs).
Export beef abattoir.
Reportedly owned by B E Campbell, who have a meat distribution centre at 144 Newton Rd, Wetherill Park NSW

Inghams Poultry Abattoir - Cardiff (Slaughterhouse, #4f2b1)
Address: Pendlebury Road, Cardiff NSW 2285, Australia
Closed in August 2016:
Closure confirmed by worker.

Inghams Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #a6f88)
Address: Ewingsdale Road, Byron Bay NSW 2481, Australia

Inghams Tahmoor Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #fef3f)
Species: Turkeys
Address: 17 Rockford Rd, Tahmoor NSW 2573, Australia
Animal Liberation NSW obtained hidden camera footage from Inghams Turkey Abattoir in Tahmoor, near Sydney NSW. Over 136 instances of animal cruelty were recorded from cameras placed over the shackling area, where birds are unloaded from trucks and placed onto the shackling line to be killed. In the footage, workers were seen kicking and punching turkeys, and bashing them against the floor and the side of the truck.
The turkeys, weighing between 8 and 17kg each, were hung upside down by their legs on the shackles; their weight often caused their legs to rip from their bodies. Workers were seen tossing the legs around, and handheld footage from inside the facility at night showed that these legs had simply been left up on the rafters.
Five workers were sacked as a result of the footage, however anonymous reports have been received that similar incidents often occur at other Inghams poultry (turkey, chicken and duck) slaughterhouses across the country.
Following the widespread exposure, Inghams announced that they were installing CCTV cameras in all of their slaughterhouses, however the footage would only be monitored by management and not by any authorities or other third parties. Of course, in facilities with CCTV monitored only by management, there is a likelihood that for any incidents of welfare breaches caught on camera, the evidence would be quickly destroyed and not reported, as the company has nothing to benefit from reporting themselves to authorities. Rather, such cameras are likely in place to stop anyone from installing hidden cameras of their own.

JBS Australia - Scone Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #70c1b)
Address: 58 Muffett St, Scone NSW 2337, Australia
Capable of killing up to 1,050 cattle per day, purchased by JBS in April 2015:
Previously a multi-species export abattoir owned by Primo Australia (Beef, Sheep, Pig, Offal) - www.primosmallgoods.com.au - with a Butina Combi 44 gas chamber for CO2 stunning.

Junee Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #03681)
Species: Sheep
Address: 2882 Byrnes Rd, Junee NSW 2650, Australia
Export Abattoir (Sheep, Offal)

Lachley Meats (Slaughterhouse, #a258c)
Address: Abattoir Road, Forbes NSW 2871, Australia

Lake Cargelligo Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #9cbc1)
Address: 224 Weir Road, Lake Cargelligo NSW 2672, Australia

Macleay River Meats (aka Eversons Food Processors) (Slaughterhouse, #b40e1)
Species: Sheep, Goats, Cows/cattle
Address: 60 Collombatti Rd, Frederickton NSW 2440, Australia
"Everson’s Food Processors (EFP) is a family owned and managed multi species (lamb, sheep, cattle and goats) abattoir situated on the beautiful mid north coast at Frederickton just north of Kempsey, NSW.
For over 33 years the Everson family have grown their business to incorporate a wide range of commercial meat processing services, boning room, a fleet distribution network, a rendering plant and a portion control room supplying products to retailers such as IGA."

Milton Meats (Slaughterhouse, #5d055)
Species: Alpacas
Address: 33 Slaughterhouse Rd, Milton NSW 2538, Australia
Closed in May 2023:
EPA licence surrendered in February 2024:

Moss Vale Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #33080)
Address: 31 Abattoir Rd, Moss Vale NSW 2577, Australia
Closed 1994

Mudgee Regional Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #a9b1f)
Address: Abattoirs Road, Menah NSW 2850, Australia

Northern Co-op Meat Company (Slaughterhouse, #phz4i)
Address: 7 Sandy Point Rd, Monaltrie NSW 2480, Australia
May be the former site of the current Booyong facility.
EPA licence surrendered in 2002:

Northern Tablelands Meat Packers (Slaughterhouse, #dcvgo)
Address: 127 Keevers Dr, Repton NSW 2454, Australia
ABN cancelled in 2014: https://abr.business.gov.au/ABN/View?id=44001340469
EPA licence surrendered in 2005:

Nyngan Fine Meats (Slaughterhouse, #d93pc)
Address: 248 Old Warren Rd, Nyngan NSW 2825, Australia
EPA licence:

Oberon Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #5aa9d)
Species: Goats
Address: 54 Hazelgrove Rd, Oberon NSW 2787, Australia
Has closed and reopened multiple times. Currently closed and inoperational, since early 2023.

Pepe's Ducks Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #e6cdd)
Species: Ducks
Address: 17 Walker St, South Windsor NSW 2756, Australia

R&R Roosters (Slaughterhouse, #37317)
Address: 105 Mayo Road, Llandilo NSW 2747
Formerly Alquail Pty Ltd (deregistered 2018).
"Our roosters are the unwanted roosters from the egg industry, they are grown out to about 16 weeks then processed at our licensed on-site abattoir."

Ramsey Food Processing (Slaughterhouse, #7d1zs)
Address: 350 Armidale Rd, South Grafton NSW 2460, Australia
EPA licence revoked 2013:

Red Lea Chicken Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #3b7b2)
Address: Flushcombe Road, Blacktown NSW 2148, Australia
Closed March 2018:

Riverina Beef Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #91397)
Address: 763a Regulator Road, Merungle Hill NSW 2705, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Offal) - www.jbsswift.com.au

Steggles Poultry Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #cccb8)
Address: 135 Addison St, Beresfield NSW 2322, Australia

Summerland Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #9210f)
Species: Chickens, Rabbits
Address: 63 Withers Rd, North Kellyville NSW 2155, Australia
The cruel slaughter of farmed rabbits at Summerland Poultry Slaughterhouse was exposed by Farm Transparency Project in 2024, following a hidden camera investigation.

Summertime Chicken (Slaughterhouse, #3bfe0)
Address: 26-28 Crosslands Rd, Galson

Supreme Poultry and Chickens (Slaughterhouse, #01bc5)
Address: 62 S Creek Rd, Shanes Park NSW 2747, Australia

Supreme Poultry and Chickens (Slaughterhouse, #70baf)
Address: Wisemans Ferry Road, Mangrove Mountain NSW 2250, Australia

Tablelands Premier Meats (Slaughterhouse, #f2746)
Address: 433 Pride of Oak Rd, Canowindra NSW 2804, Australia

Teys Wagga Wagga Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #bb80e)
Address: Dampier Street, Bomen NSW 2650, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Offal)

Thomas Foods International - Tamworth Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #9c8fd)
Address: 51-89 Phoenix St, Westdale NSW 2340, Australia
Export Abattoir (Sheep, Offal) www.countryfresh.com.au

Tinder Creek Duck Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #c1b95)
Species: Ducks, Chickens
Address: 431 Tennyson Rd, Tennyson NSW 2754, Australia
Footage captured at Tinder Creek Duck slaughterhouse in Tennyson, NSW in late 2024 shows chickens and ducks having their throats slit while fully conscious. Workers were captured deliberately placing ducks on the shackle line after the electrified stun bath, which is used to paralyse birds before their throats are slit. Ducks are seen flapping their wings and lifting their heads after their throats have been slit.
Other chickens and ducks are seen to lift their heads, avoiding the electrified water and emerging from the stunning bath fully conscious. They continue to struggle as they are moved along the shackle line and into the further processing area where their feathers and organs are removed. One duck in the footage falls into the stun bath and can be seen trying to lift their head free of the water for over a minute before finally drowning.
Footage taken by activists after hours in the kill room shows blood and feathers covering the floor, next to the butchered bodies of chickens and ducks waiting to be picked up and taken to be sold.
This facility commenced operations in 2017, and the old location in Kellyville NSW was demolished.

Tinder Creek Duck Abattoir (old) (Slaughterhouse, #7d6f5)
Species: Ducks
Address: Hillview Road, Kellyville NSW 2155, Australia
Demolished in 2017, operations moved to new facility at 421 Tennyson Road, Tennyson NSW.

Western Sydney Meat Worx (formerly Picton Meatworx) (Slaughterhouse, #625c2)
Species: Pigs, Cows/cattle, Sheep, Goats
Address: 44 Koorana Rd, Picton NSW 2571, Australia
Formerly Picton Meatworx, and prior to that, Wollondilly Abattoir.
Changed name from Picton Meatworx to Western Sydney Meat Worx following release of damning footage of animal cruelty, captured by an undercover investigator in 2019.

Wingham Beef Exports (Slaughterhouse, #0be00)
Address: 1295 Gloucester Rd, Wingham NSW 2429, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef) - www.nmpa.com.au
Wingham Beef Exports (ABN 19 002 954 789) has the capacity to kill 700 cows per day.
Wingham Beef Exports is owned by NH Foods, who own 2 other cow slaughterhouses on the east coast of Australia, and one of Australia’s largest feed lots, located in southern Queensland.
NH Foods is a wholly owned subsidiary of NH Foods Group, Japan.
Sources:
1. https://www.nh-foods.com.au/
2. https://www.nh-foods.com.au/facilities/

AACo Livingstone Beef Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #a7f55)
Address: 2660 Stuart Highway, Livingstone NT 0822, Australia
Closed 2018:

Alice Springs Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #d1db2)
Address: Smith Street, Ciccone NT 0870, Australia

Crocodylus Park Farm & Abattoir (Skin/fur farm, #48ff0)
Species: Crocodiles
Categories: Skin/fur farm, Slaughterhouse, Zoo
Address: 815 McMillans Rd, Knuckey Lagoon NT 0828, Australia
Crocodylus Park is a zoo and tourist park near Darwin, with a secret farm and slaughterhouse/abattoir confining around 1000 crocodiles at a time to tiny cages, for meat and skins. The skins are supplied to major luxury fashion brands Hermès and Louis Vuitton.

Kalkarindji Meatworks (Slaughterhouse, #a8ee6)
Address: Kalkarindji NT 0852, Australia

Old Cameron Downs Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #c05d1)
Address: 65 Perreau Road, Eva Valley NT 0822

Tenarra Meatworks (aka Meneling, Rum Jungle) (Slaughterhouse, #c424b)
Species: Cows/cattle, Camels, Buffalo
Address: 165 Meneling Road, Finnish Valley NT 0822
A multi species abattoir located south of Darwin. Licensed to process cattle, buffalo and camels. The facility recently underwent significant improvements. Prior to re-opening in December 2019, it had been out of operation  for 16 years .
The current facility is operated by Central Agri Group Holdings, operating as Rum Jungle Meat Exports.

Tennant Creek Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #4b40a)
Address: 838 Stuart Highway, Warumungu NT 0852, Australia

Wadeye (Port Keats) Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #25c90)
Address: Daly River/Port Keats Aboriginal Land Trust, Nemarluk NT 0822, Australia

Abedoar Country Meats (Slaughterhouse, #yeujb)
Address: 50 Oakey Kelvinhaugh Road, Oakey QLD 4401, Australia
Likely closed.

Aussie Squab Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #356d2)
Address: 71 Thomson Lane Thangool QLD 4716

Australian Country Choice Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #a640b)
Address: 117 Colmslie Road, Murarrie QLD 4172, Australia
Export abattoir (beef, offal) - www.accbeef.net.au.
Daily capacity of 1400 head of beef cattle, or approximately 90 million carcass kilograms a year / 350,000 head per year.

Baiada Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #a1e76)
Address: Toongarra Road, Wulkuraka QLD 4305, Australia

Barcoo Butchery Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #hregq)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep
Address: 30424 Landsborough Hwy, Blackall QLD 4472
The slaughterhouse (aka slaughter yard) for the Barcoo Butchery nearby in the town of Blackall, owned by the Davison family. Property owned by Lynette Davison.
Previously known to slaughter 140 animals per week, including 135 sheep/lambs and five cows/cattle. May also kill pigs, goats and calves.

Bendele Organic Poultry Farm (Slaughterhouse, #35a17)
Address: Bular Road, Kilkivan QLD 4600, Australia

Biggenden Meatworks (Slaughterhouse, #2796d)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats
Address: Isis Highway, Woowoonga QLD 4621, Australia
Domestic abattoir (beef, sheep, goat, pig, offal)

Blenners Wholesale Meats (Slaughterhouse, #aaff9)
Address: 193 Bingil Bay Rd, Midgeree Bar QLD 4852, Australia

Bones Knob Cash Butchery and Local Trade Processing (Slaughterhouse, #2ef76)
Address: 262 Griffin Rd, Tolga QLD 4882, Australia

Boss Meats (Slaughterhouse, #b8c84)
Address: Pyramids Road, Storm King QLD 4380, Australia

Brisbane Valley Meats (Slaughterhouse, #d21bc)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Camels, Buffalo
Address: 3606 Gatton Road Esk QLD 4312
Operating as both a slaughterhouse and a butcher shop, Brisbane Valley Meats kills cows, sheep, goats, pigs, buffalo and camels for direct supply to the public.
In 2024, FTP's team investigated Brisbane Valley Meats, installing hidden cameras to document the reality of what happens behind closed doors at this slaughterhouse. Our footage showed shocking violence, brutality and carelessness from workers, causing immeasurable animal suffering.
Sheep, goats and small pigs are forced into a small stun pen, where they are picked off one by one with an electric stunner. Goats, sheep and pigs can all be seen frantically trying to escape the stunner, jumping up on the side of the pen and climbing on top of each other, or attempting to hide their heads under other animals. Workers use the stunner like tongs, grabbing animals by the head and neck and zapping them with electricity which temporarily paralyses them. 4-5 will usually be stunned within a matter of seconds before they are dragged one by one into the kill room.
By the time they are taken to have their throats slit, many have begun to regain consciousness and can be seen blinking and even attempting to stand. These animals have their throats slit while they are awake and aware. Several animals escape into the kill room, with at least one pig having their throat slit by a worker as they struggle and scream.
Cows, large pigs, buffalo and camels are forced into a small metal ‘knockbox,’ which they often try to escape from, jumping up on the metal sides and attempting to turn around and run back out. Due to their thicker skulls, large pigs and buffalo are first knocked out with an electric stunner, before they are hoisted onto a shackle line and have their throats slit. Pigs often struggle and thrash as the stunner is used on them multiple times, while buffalo can be seen to bleed from the nose after being electrocuted.
Cows and camels are shot with a bolt gun before their throats are cut. Many cows continue to struggle and lift their heads as they are hoisted onto the shackle line. One cow can be seen raising their head and legs and violently thrashing while hanging upside down. Despite clear signs of consciousness, a worker proceeds to cut their throat and remove their feet, likely while the cow can still feel pain.
Camels killed at the slaughterhouse are believed to be ex-dairy camels, likely from nearby Summerland Camels. Like dairy cows, female camels used for milk are impregnated multiple times across their lifespan, before being killed when milk production begins to slow. Brisbane Valley Meats proudly boasts of their camel meat burgers, which they sell in their onsite butcher shop.

Burnett Butchery Slaughter Yards (Slaughterhouse, #0ccdd)
Address: 123 Radio Station Rd, Eidsvold QLD 4627, Australia

Carey Bros Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #ffbf3)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Goats, Pigs
Address: Swanfels Road, Yangan QLD Australia 4371
Established in 1944, Carey Bros is a family run slaughterhouse and butcher shop operating in the small town of Yangan, in the Southern Downs region of QLD. Each week, dozens of cows and pigs and hundreds of sheep are killed at the slaughterhouse, which in 2020 was awarded a state government Rural Economic Development (RED) grant to upgrade their facilities.
In early 2019, anonymous activists installed hidden cameras at Carey Bros Slaughterhouse in Yangan, QLD, and provided the footage to FTP. Over the course of just one day, they captured horrific brutality towards sheep, pigs and cows, who were beaten by workers and killed, often without effective stunning. Following this exposé, activists staged a lock on at the facility as part of the Dominion anniversary day of action. Those involved chained themselves together on the kill floor, stopping the killing and securing the release of three sheep, who were taken to live out their lives at an animal sanctuary.
In 2024, FTP returned to Carey Bros to investigate whether anything had changed. Our hidden cameras revealed:
Sheep, goats and pigs being punched, kicked, pulled by ears and horns, roughly shoved and thrown, or beaten with sticks, by workers moving them from the holding pens to the 'race' and into the restraint
Animals escaping the race and restraint, running loose in the kill room and processing areas
Escaped animals being roughly handled and improperly stunned when returned to the kill table
Sheep, pigs, and goats being stunned ineffectively, in multiple cases leading to animals being killed while exhibiting signs of consciousness: blinking, gasping, and struggling
Some animals being killed while fully conscious with no stunning at all, including one sheep who is stabbed twice and then decapitated by a frustrated worker
Cows being electrocuted multiples times before and after sticking
Cows being ineffectively stunned via bolt gun, requiring multiple attempts to effectively stun them as they continue to struggle in the knockbox
Ineffective bolt gun stunning leading to strong responses from some cows during electrical stunning: head lifting, rapid kicking, thrashing, etc
Larger pigs in the knockbox are ineffectively bolt gunned, causing intense thrashing and spasming while workers attempt to raise them to the shackle line
Multiple pigs still seemingly conscious after being lowered into the scalding tanks, thrashing when they are lowered into the water and ultimately drowning.

Churchill Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #1be4d)
Address: 31 113 Berry Street, Yamanto QLD 4305, Australia
Closed September 2017:
Domestic abattoir (beef)

Cloncurry Abattoir? (Slaughterhouse, #b880c)
Address: Unnamed Road, Cloncurry QLD 4824, Australia

Crows Nest Meatworks (Slaughterhouse, #64bf1)
Species: Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Cows/cattle, Calves
Address: 7695 New England Hwy, Crows Nest QLD 4355, Australia
Established in 2002 as the first export approved, multi-species slaughterhouse in QLD, Crows Nest Meatworks originally operated as a ‘game meat’ abattoir, killing deer, ostriches, goats and emus. In 2012, the company changed hands and was reopened after a long closure, this time to kill sheep, goats, pigs and cows.
Now, Crows Nest kills dozens of animals each week, including sheep, goats, pigs, piglets, cows and bobby calves, who are sent to the slaughterhouse from surrounding dairy farms.
In 2024, FTP's team of investigators installed hidden cameras at Crows Nest, to record the handling and slaughter of goats, cows, sheep, pigs and calves at the property. Our cameras recorded as these animals were brutally killed, with some maintaining consciousness for minutes after their throats were slit.
Small animals, including bobby calves, sheep, piglets and goats, are paralysed with an electric stunner in a ‘kill pen,’ where their throats are then slit. Multiple animals were seen to continue struggling and blinking as they slowly bled out.
Cows and larger pigs are shot in the head with a handheld bolt-gun, to immobilise them before they are tipped out, hung by the legs and their throat is slit. One night, we returned to retrieve our hidden cameras to find one cow who had been locked in a small box in the race. Desperate and afraid, they struggled to escape the metal box, covered in sweat and foaming at the mouth.
Crows Nest is owned and directed by Lindsay William Taylor, a local man in his 70s, owner of Taya Meats, who in 2013 was fined $50,000 in the Toowoomba Magistrates Court, after concerned bystanders made a complaint about a field of dead and dying goats owned by Taylor.
Goats on the property were found not to have access to food or water, except for industrial waste bins which contained the decomposing remains of other animals. Taylor pleaded guilty to four counts of breach of duty of care to an animal as a director and four counts of feeding animal matter or animal contaminated matter to stock, however the court decided to record no convictions.
Crows Nest is an example of the ineffectiveness of systems that allow animal abusers to continue to profit from the exploitation of animals, even after they have been admitted to neglect and cruelty.

Emu Heaven / TRY It Emu Farm Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #b7b36)
Species: Emus
Address: Edmund Street, Marburg QLD 4346, Australia

Former Killarney Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #3790d)
Address: 3563 Abattoir Killarney, 3563 Border Road, Killarney QLD 4373, Australia
Closed 2010.
2014: 'REDEVELOPMENT of the defunct Killarney Abattoir as a pig processing plant is still in the planning stage but could be at least two years away.'
Under new management in Jan 2019, abattoir no longer physically exists. Listing maintained for historical purposes.

Former site of Highchester Meats (Slaughterhouse, #b5e9c)
Species: Pigs
Address: 6604 Mount Lindesay Highway Gleneagle QLD 4285
Formerly a domestic abattoir killing cattle/cows, sheep, goats, pigs and calves. Closed late 2023, completely bulldozed in early 2024.

Former site of Zarbelle Poultry Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #f8222)
Species: Chickens, Turkeys, Ducks
Address: 140 Old Toorbul Point Rd, Caboolture QLD 4510, Australia
Killed chickens, turkeys, ducks.
Demolished in mid 2020, no longer exists.

Full Circle Butchery (Slaughterhouse, #6cea6)
Address: 52 Ayr Dalbeg Rd, Mcdesme QLD 4807, Australia

Golden Cockerel Poultry Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #d9d99)
Address: Mount Cotton Road, Mount Cotton QLD 4165, Australia

Goondiwindi Meats Pty Ltd (Slaughterhouse, #741e3)
Address: 24 Abattoir Rd, Goondiwindi QLD 4390, Australia

Gordon's Meats (Slaughterhouse, #a7e7c)
Address: 858 Gordon's Meats, Bell QLD 4408, Australia

Grays Slaughteryards (Slaughterhouse, #daab8)
Address: 1414 State Route 12, Eumundi QLD 4562, Australia
This abattoir is currently closed.

Greenmountain Food Processing (Slaughterhouse, #b9f0c)
Address: 26 Coominya Connection Road, Coominya QLD 4311, Australia
In the town of Coominya, one of QLD’s largest ‘beef’ and ‘veal’ slaughterhouses, Greenmountain, rises from a sprawling sea of feedlot style holding pens. Each pen is filled with wary cows, some of which nurse calves as they stand in the shadow of the abattoir. At night, dingoes can be found prowling the pens, occasionally tearing at bodies of dead or dying animals or watching from a distance as the cows attempt to rest in the barren pens. Bordering the pens lies a pile of dead cows, bloated from the heat and lying in a river of blood. A further pile consists of bones, with whole skulls peeking out from a veil of dirt and shrivelled skin. The air is fetid and heavy, filled with the gentle sounds of cows and the loud hum of machinery.
For just one week in late 2024, Farm Transparency Project investigators installed hidden cameras at Greenmountain, seeking to understand and challenge their claims to uphold the ‘world’s best practice’ in sustainability and exceed animal welfare expectations.
Our cameras revealed:
Excessive – almost exclusive – use of a painful electric prodder to move cattle from the race to the knockbox, including occasional use on the face and anus and when the animals have nowhere to move to, and frequently leading to clear vocalisations indicating significant pain
Workers kicking cows
Regular closing of race doors on the heads, necks and bodies of cows
Downed cows in the race being repeatedly jabbed with the electric prodder; other cows being moved over the top of them; shot with a bolt-gun in the race and winched through to the kill floor
Cows displaying signs of consciousness after stunning, including breathing, blinking, and responding to sticking; sometimes the blinking and breathing continues after sticking. In some cases workers clearly notice this by performing an eye reflex test, but make no attempt to re-stun the animal.
Owned and operated by the Scarrabelotti family, the Greenmountain Group have been farming animals in the South East of Queensland since the 1880s. In 2007, the purchased the Coominya slaughterhouse, solidifying their status as one of the largest, privately operated cow slaughterhouses in QLD, and one of the only slaughter companies in Australia which is vertically integrated, meaning that the Greenmountain group control all elements of the supply chain, including breeding, growing and killing cows for beef and veal.
Greenmountain holds accreditations which allow it to supply to McDonald’s and Woolworths’s in Australia, as well as to export globally.
Animals killed at Greenmountain are sold as the following meat brands:
Greenmountain Meat
QLD Beef Processing
Swan Bay Butchers
Veneto Veal
Rock Valley Veal
Willowvale

Heartland Grazing (Slaughterhouse, #5d274)
Address: Schimkes Lane, Clarendon QLD 4311, Australia

Inghams Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #a04a8)
Address: 51 Alexandra Place, Murarrie QLD 4172, Australia
Distribution Centre

Inglewood Organic Chicken Processing Plant (Slaughterhouse, #f7544)
Address: 486 Tobacco Road, Inglewood QLD Australia 4387

JBS Australia - Beef City Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #f8067)
Address: , Purrawunda QLD 4356, Australia

JBS Australia - Dinmore Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #b5b43)
Address: 2 Lock Way Dinmore QLD 4303

JBS Australia - Rockhampton Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #f7ae5)
Address: 96 Australian Meat Holdings, St Christopher Chapel Road, Nerimbera QLD 4701, Australia

JBS Australia - Townsville Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #12a4d)
Address: 37644 Bruce Highway, Stuart QLD 4811, Australia

Jimbour Butchery Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #6b81a)
Address: 56 Jimbour Station Rd, Jimbour East QLD 4405, Australia

John Dee Export Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #9b316)
Address: 97-129 Rosehill Road, Warwick QLD 4370, Australia Export Abattoir (Beef, Offal)

Kilcoy Pastoral Company (Slaughterhouse, #01350)
Address: 4830 D\'aguilar Highway, Winya QLD 4515, Australia

Kuttabul Abattoir Plant (Slaughterhouse, #58573)
Address: 60 Geeburga Buthurra Rd, Kuttabul QLD 4741, Australia

Ladbrooks Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #1ff18)
Address: 56 Chappell Ln, Dargal Road QLD 4455, Australia

Maclagan Meats (Slaughterhouse, #800e8)
Species: Sheep, Goats, Pigs, Cows/cattle
Address: 4282 Dalby Cooyar Road, Maclagan QLD 4352, Australia
Located just outside the small town from which it takes its name, Maclagan Meats is a roadside slaughterhouse and butcher shop, killing goats, sheep, pigs and cows to order for local farms.
With an onsite butcher shop and in house curing and smoking equipment, the slaughterhouse prides itself on high quality, local service. Yet, what FTP found when we installed hidden cameras at the facility in 2024, was far from what locals might expect.
Hidden behind the slaughterhouses doors, just minutes from the town centre, lies hell on earth for hundreds of animals each week.
For sheep, pigs and goats, they are herded into a small pen where a worker clamps an electric ‘stunning device around their face and head. Intended to cause paralysis, this form of stunning is often unreliable and ineffective, leading to animals being painfully electrocuted multiple times before they fall unconscious. Once they are dragged inside the slaughterhouse, their throats are slit then they are hung on a shackle line to either be skinned (in the case of goats and sheep), or dropped into a vat of scalding water (in the case of pigs). Many animals can be seen gasping and thrashing before and after their throats are slit, meaning that it is likely some are still awake and aware as they slowly bleed to death.
Cows and large pigs are herded from a holding pen, up a race and into a knockbox, where they are shot in the head with a bolt gun. Trapped and afraid, they try to escape the race, even jumping up in the knockbox as workers try to position the bolt gun. Like the other animals killed at Maclagan, cows can be seen to continue to struggle even as their throats are slit while they hang upside down from a hoist, their blood draining into troughs placed on the floor. At least one cow is shot again while they hang upside down, while others displaying signs of consciousness have a knife forced through their skull and into their brain.
Small, local slaughterhouses are just as violent, brutal and uncaring as the largest, industrial operation. No matter the size, no matter the place, slaughter is never humane.

Mcclymont's Poultry Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #48a0a)
Address: 840 826-840 Greenwattle Street, Harristown QLD 4350, Australia

Meramist Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #7fefa)
Species: Horses, Cows/cattle, Camels
Address: 76 Old Gympie Rd, Caboolture QLD 4510, Australia
Exposed by ABC 7.30 and the Coalition for the Protection of Racehorses (CPR) in October 2019 for the mass slaughter and abuse of ex-racehorses. Also slaughters cows/cattle.
Follow CPR on Facebook to see what you can do to stop this, and consider signing their pledge to never bet on or attend a horse race again.

Miller's Gourmet Meats slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #83zwm)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Pigs
Address: 61 Langs Rd, Bukali QLD 4630, Australia
"Miller’s Gourmet Meats Abattoir, situated just outside of Monto, offer comprehensive slaughter and packing service for Cattle, Sheep and Pigs."
Slaughterhouse for the Miller's Gourmet Meats butcher shop nearby in the town of Monto. Property and business (Winjun Pty Ltd / Millers Gourmet Meats Pty Ltd) owned by Daniel James Miller.
Previously known as Monto Meats.

Millmerran Meats (Slaughterhouse, #c78e6)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Pigs
Address: 321 Millmerran Inglewood Rd, Millmerran QLD 4357, Australia
In operation since 1975, Millmerran Meats is a multi-species slaughterhouse owned by Rob Ashton, who also owns and operates award winning butcher shop, Ashton’s Meats.
In 2024, FTP's investigators visited Millmerran Meats and installed hidden cameras to document and observe what happens at this facility when they don’t think anyone is watching.
Described as a “paddock to plate” operation, the slaughterhouse kills around 50 cows, 40 pigs and over 100 lambs each week, who are butchered and sold at Ashton’s shop, and other local butcher shops. In 2020, Rob Ashton was awarded a $140,000 state government Rural Economic Development (RED grant)in order to improve the facilities at the slaughterhouse.
In the footage FTP captured, pigs are seen being kicked or struck with a gate door by the workers when they avoid being moved to the stun pen. Some were grabbed by their ears and pulled roughly to the kill room. The stun pen is too small to allow for effective stunning, causing every pig to be stunned multiple times. Afterwards, many continue to struggle as they are raised up the shackle line for sticking. The pigs are often still thrashing intensely while trying to raise their heads as they bleed out. Other pigs in the stun pen witness this thrashing when they enter the kill room, and are frightened by it; causing them to try and retreat or escape the pen. In one instance, a large pig jumped over the pen and ran out of the kill room.
Cows are forced up a narrow metal race and into the kill room. Frightened and confused, they attempt to turn around and back out, but are struck by the workers and have their tails twisted to make them move forward. Once in the knockbox, panicked cows try desperately to back out, with one even attempting to leap over the side. A worker waits for the opportunity and then shoots them with a bolt-gun. Once bolt-gunned, many cows still thrash and exhibit signs of consciousness, requiring a second or third bolting.
Lambs are forced into the knockbox by the workers, who bolt-gun them one at a time, usually in groups of four. In every instance of sheep being stunned, at least one of the group continued to thrash violently up until they had their throats slit and were hung on the shackle line. The sticking is so violent that many sheep fall off the kill table due to their intense kicking, ending up on the kill floor, covered in the blood of other animals.
Millmerran Meats is an Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC) certified slaughterhouse, meaning that they are expected to uphold AMIC standards of animal welfare. These standards are considered the industry gold standard across Australia. If this is what the industry considers best practice, can you imagine the worst?

Moya Valley Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #5b013)
Address: 3525 Mary Valley Road, Imbil QLD 4570, Australia

Mundubbera Butchering Co Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #lvbti)
Address: 20396 Burnett Highway, Mundowran QLD 4626, Australia
From 2009: "The slaughtering on the kill floor is done by two or three employees who also work at the butcher shop in town. The abattoir is used to process approximately 20 bodies a week including 6 cattle on a Monday, 7 pigs on Tuesday and 8 lambs on Wednesday."

Nerang Park Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #f6dea)
Address: 31-51 Nerang Park Poultry, 45 Gilston Road, Nerang QLD 4211, Australia

Nolan Meats (Slaughterhouse, #5ed59)
Address: East Deep Creek Road, East Deep Creek QLD 4570, Australia Export Abattoir (Beef, Offal)

Oakey Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #0ea91)
Address: 116 Speed Road, Oakey QLD 4401, Australia
"Queensland beef processor takes court action against Defence Force over alleged PFAS contamination", 10/09/2020:

Pittsworth Regional Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #399ee)
Address: Boundary Road, Pittsworth QLD Australia 4356
Closed in April 2011.

Plants Meats (Slaughterhouse, #479f1)
Address: 60 Curtis Rd, Broughton QLD 4820, Australia

Rocky Creek Abattoir (Byrnes) (Slaughterhouse, #117fb)
Address: 109 Mapee Rd, Tolga QLD 4882, Australia

Schulte's Meat Tavern (Slaughterhouse, #b59f9)
Address: 18 Thallon Rd, Hatton Vale QLD 4341, Australia

Signature Beef Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #ktmjs)
Address: Pasha QLD 4721, Australia

Site of former slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #gds0q)
Address: Mort Street, Harlaxton QLD 4350, Australia
Demolished in 2014.

Stanbroke Beef (Slaughterhouse, #e5bd1)
Address: Grantham Scrub Road, Veradilla QLD Australia 4347

Steggles (Slaughterhouse, #b47fd)
Address: Byrnes Street, Mareeba QLD 4880, Australia

Steve's Country Kills (Slaughterhouse, #a172b)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats
Address: 420 Chinchilla Tara Rd, Chinchilla QLD 4413, Australia
Steve’s Country Kills is a 'local', ‘private kill’ abattoir, which slaughters cows, sheep, goats and pigs. In 2023, the owner and operator of the slaughterhouse, Steve Long,  was awarded as the Queensland Country Meat Processor Association ‘Processor of the Year’ by the Australian Meat Industry Council. Steve’s slaughters and butchers animals for local businesses, including multi-award winning butcher shop, AJ’s Country Meats, who were named Queensland’s best butcher by the Australian Meat Industry Council (AMIC), in 2023.
In 2024, FTP installed cameras inside the kill room at Steve’s, to capture the handling and slaughter of animals over a 2 week period.
These cameras revealed an incredibly reckless and aggressive approach to the stunning of sheep, goats and pigs. The animals were often frightened and panicked, desperately trying to run to avoid the workers. We also saw multiple animals being roughly handled and thrown across the pen.
It would often take multiple stun attempts before an animal was rendered unconscious, and many animals were sent to the kill room while continuing to struggle and blink - clear signs of consciousness. Goats continued to shake their heads and blink as workers slit their throats. Sheep thrashed and shook on the shackle line. Pigs could be seen trying to raise their heads while gasping and kicking as they bled out.
In the race, cows would repeatedly attempt to avoid being forced into the knockbox, fearful of what awaited them in the slaughterhouse. Their resistance was met with physical abuse, with some struck and shocked with the small animal stunner, to force them to move.
What awaits them in the knockbox is a rifle shot to the head. Some cows were shot multiple times after the first proved ineffective in causing unconsciousness. Many cows continued to thrash around on the kill floor, weakly attempting to raise their heads or kick against the chains as the workers hoisted them on the shackle line.

Swickers Kingaroy Bacon Factory (Slaughterhouse, #9999d)
Address: 206 Kingaroy-Barkers Creek Rd, Kingaroy QLD 4610, Australia
15000 pigs slaughtered per week

Teys Australia - Biloela Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #40cb0)
Address: Jambin Dakenba Road, Dakenba QLD 4715, Australia

Teys Australia - Rockhampton Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #b8639)
Address: 476-478 469 Lakes Creek Road, Lakes Creek QLD 4701, Australia

Teys Australia Beenleigh (Slaughterhouse, #cb443)
Address: Logan River Road, Beenleigh QLD 4207, Australia
Business Details
Business Name: | | Teys Australia Beenleigh Pty Ltd - BEENLEIGH
Premises Location:
Logan River Road
Beenleigh QLD 4207
Activity: | | Meat Processing
Accreditation Number: | | 104313000
"Teys Australia Beenleigh is located halfway between Brisbane and the Gold Coast and employs more than 700 people. The team at the Beenleigh site work closely with their local community and support a range of local, charitable and not-for-profit organisations. "
http://www.teysaust.com.au/facilities/

The Oak's Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #185f8)
Address: Unnamed Road, Goondiwindi QLD 4390, Australia
Not operational, but Development Application submitted in 2017 for reopening.

Thomas Borthwick & Sons (Borthwicks) Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #2b948)
Address: Main Street, Bakers Creek QLD 4740, Australia

Wallangarra Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #8bf27)
Species: Sheep, Goats
Address: Longs Lane, Wallangarra QLD 4383, Australia
Closed 2016:
Export Abattoir (Sheep, Goat, Offal)

Wattle Glen Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #js13f)
Address: 12498 Wattle Glen Abbattoir, 12498 Carnarvon Highway, St George QLD 4487, Australia

Western Exporters Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #77e90)
Species: Goats, Sheep
Address: Warrego Highway, Charleville QLD 4470, Australia Export Abattoir (Sheep, Goat, Offal)

Adelaide Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #533e1)
Address: Moss Road, Wingfield SA 5013, Australia
Kills Lilydale free range chicken

Aldinga Turkey Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #df5e0)
Species: Turkeys
Address: 323 Foggo Road, Mclaren Flat SA 5171, Australia All Inghams turkey production stopping in SA as of Dec 2014:

Big River Pork Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #32a6c)
Address: 283 Flagstaff Road, Brinkley SA 5253, Australia
In May 2014, hidden cameras were placed inside the Big River Pork pig slaughterhouse near Murray Bridge, South Australia. The resulting day of footage, sent anonymously to Aussie Farms, depicts workers using electric cattle prods excessively to force pigs into the carbon dioxide (CO2) gas chamber, where they then scream and trash as they suffocate and full unconscious.
The footage comes after similar reactions to the gas were filmed at Rivalea's Corowa slaughterhouse in NSW - something the world had never before seen. While the camera angle at Corowa only caught the reaction at the bottom edge of the screen, the camera at Big River Pork was placed inside the gas chamber, looking straight down at the pigs as the gas first hits them. Almost every single pig is shown to have a horrific, violent reaction to the gas, as they try to escape the cage ('gondola').
Unlike the Corowa footage, where only 5-6 month old pigs were killed, the Big River Pork footage depicts sows being forced into the gas too. These sows have had unbearable lives consisting of a constant cycle of forced impregnation, confinement to sow stalls (or group housing, where they also faced aggression from other pigs in the cramped conditions) and farrowing crates, and watching their piglets dying or being taken away from them; over and over for 2-3 years.
Some sows are seen with "CULL" or "NIP" spray-painted on their backs. NIP refers to the "not in pig" condition, where sows are thought to be pregnant but never actually give birth to piglets, and are therefore seen as a waste of the farmers' time and resources and sent to slaughter.
Many of the sows are seen still moving as they come up the other side of the gas chamber; an electric stunner awaits any who have not been successfully rendered unconscious by the gas.
It is a truly sad end to a life of misery and exploitation.
The electric cattle prod is used on almost every pig between 2 and 10 times, despite the company policy on the wall clearly stating that the prodder should not be used on any more than 1 in 4 pigs. The prodder is sometimes used on the pigs' faces and appears to be held on the anus of one sow for 2-3 seconds. Despite the race (walkway for the animals between the holding pens and gas chamber) being covered by metal bars, pigs still try to climb out rather than go into the chamber. Some manage to turn around, in which instance the worker lifts up the side of the caged passage to let them out, where they are then put back in at the start.
Big River Pork is a consortium of 4 major Australian pork industry players (Auspork, B.E. Campbell, George Weston Foods, and Hurstbridge Abattoirs), with apparently state-of-the-art export pork "processing" facilities. It is the largest pig slaughterhouse in the state of South Australia, killing an average of 13000 pigs per week (676000 per year) as of May 2007. The second largest is the Primo abattoir at Port Wakefield, killing roughly 10000 pigs per week.

BMK Food Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #7fdfe)
Address: 5385 Old Princes Hwy, Murray Bridge East SA 5253, Australia
Uses a carbon dioxide gas chamber to suffocate hundreds of pigs per day. Investigated and exposed by Farm Transparency Project in mid 2023 - the first gas chamber footage captured in South Australia since Big River Pork in 2014.
Pigs are forced into the gas chamber using a painful electric prodder. Often the prodder is used on their faces, and even their genitalia, sometimes when they have nowhere to go. Despite the pain of the electric shocks, pigs desperately avoid entering the gas chamber.

Bordertown Processing Plant (Slaughterhouse, #ad162)
Address: 490 Meatworks Rd, Bordertown SA 5268, Australia
Bordertown Abattoir (owned by JBS) is SA’s largest lamb processor, killing up to 8000 sheep and lambs per day for domestic and export. Halal-certified.

Chapmans Meatworks (Slaughterhouse, #b2c2d)
Address: Princes Highway, Nairne SA 5252, Australia Closed for several years. Last known year of operation: 2001. Now used by other businesses.

Crystal Brook Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #iray2)
Address: 901 Goyder Hwy, Crystal Brook SA 5523, Australia

Cummins Meat Processing (Slaughterhouse, #fea26)
Address: 35a Siviour Street, Cummins SA 5631, Australia

Dews Meats (Slaughterhouse, #8c10e)
Species: Kangaroos
Address: 19 Thirteenth St, Orroroo SA 5431, Australia
Closed in 2021
An award-winning kangaroo processor in mid-north South Australia is to close because of complaints about odour.

Former site of Port Pirie Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #17766)
Address: 23 Abattoirs Rd, Port Pirie South SA 5540, Australia
Closed and demolished. Previously killed cattle. Now a scrap metal recycling facility named 'The Recycling Hub'

Gepps Cross Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #fcef2)
Address: Matthews Road, Gepps Cross SA 5094, Australia
Abandoned slaughterhouse.

Gladstone Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #2974c)
Address: 23 Slaughterhouse Rd, Gladstone SA 5473, Australia

Gourmet Poultry Service (Slaughterhouse, #0b6c7)
Address: Newcastle Crescent, Cavan SA 5094, Australia
The smallest of the three major poultry slaughterhouses in SA

Hahndorf Venison (Meat farm, #77bb3)
Species: Deer
Categories: Meat farm, Slaughterhouse
Address: 57 River Rd, Hahndorf SA 5245, Australia
Deer farm with at least two types of deer, and onsite slaughtering and processing facilities.

Haliloff Halal Fresh Quality Meats (Slaughterhouse, #1220e)
Address: Flinders Road, Waterloo Corner SA 5110, Australia

Inghams Poultry Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #3febd)
Address: Burton Road, Burton SA 5110, Australia

Kangarilla Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #ef10c)
Address: Sand Road, Kangarilla SA 5157, Australia

Kapowie Poultry Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #689f5)
Address: Mount Allen Road, Allendale North SA 5373, Australia

Lobethal Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #3307a)
Species: Sheep, Goats
Address: 40 39 Ridge Road, Lobethal SA 5241, Australia
AUS-MEAT list states: Export Abattoir ( Sheep Goat Offal )
AMIEU states: LOBETHAL is a domestic processor of both beef and lamb. It is a medium size plant employing around 180 people. An enterprise agreement provides the tally and conditions of employment for the slaughterers and boners, the labourers work under the Federal Award.

Loxton Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #ffe0a)
Species: Sheep, Pigs, Cows/cattle
Address: 134 Bullwinkle Road, Loxton SA 5333, Australia
Slaughter and boning of certified cattle * pig and sheep - enviro.org.au/organics-description.asp?id=1341

Max Noske and Son country meat (Slaughterhouse, #e5c59)
Address: 110 87 River Road, Hahndorf SA 5245, Australia
Small scale slaughtering and processing facility, owned and run by local Hahndorf butcher.

Menzel's Meats (Slaughterhouse, #b23a7)
Species: Pigs, Cows/cattle, Sheep, Goats
Address: 120 Bethel Rd, Kapunda SA 5373, Australia
Menzel's Meats is a multi-species slaughterhouse in Kapunda, South Australia, which kills pigs, goats, sheep and cows/cattle.
Unlike larger slaughterhouses, Menzel's does not use a gas chamber for pigs. Instead, for smaller pigs, sheep and goats, an electric stunner is used, while larger pigs and cows are shot with a rifle.
Pigs are herded with an electric prodder into a stunning pen, and then painfully paralysed one at a time, in front of each other. Some pigs try to comfort those who have been paralysed.
Many animals remain conscious after 'stunning', but unable to move.
The fifth slaughterhouse exposed as part of our Shut Down Slaughterhouses campaign.

Mullers Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #a7a06)
Address: 121 West Road, Glossop SA 5344, Australia

Murray Bridge Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #5965d)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Goats
Address: 12-32 Lagoon Road, Northern Heights SA 5253, Australia
Export abattoir (beef, sheep, goats). Closed in 2018 due to a fire but construction of a new facility at a different location (approximately 10km north of Murray Bridge) was approved in 2020, and construction commenced in Dec 2020.

Normanville Meatworks (Slaughterhouse, #6fd83)
Address: Hay Flat Road, Normanville SA 5204, Australia
Entered voluntary administration in March 2015:
There appears to be consensus in the media that the closure is permanent but there may be a small chance it will reopen

Peterborough Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #56d70)
Species: Camels
Address: 51 Price Rd, Peterborough SA 5422, Australia

Rosedale Meats (Slaughterhouse, #5a172)
Address: 8 Ohlson Rd, Lyrup SA 5343, Australia

Seven Point Pork (Slaughterhouse, #61a42)
Address: 111 Pareora Rd, Port Wakefield SA 5550, Australia
Closed in January 2026:
Previously known as Primo Port Wakefield Abattoir.

Snowtown Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #06a4b)
Species: Sheep, Goats, Cows/cattle
Address: 4490 Augusta Hwy, Snowtown SA 5520, Australia
Snowtown slaughterhouse, located in Snowtown, South Australia, kills goats, sheep and cows/cattle. The sixth slaughterhouse exposed as part of our Shut Down Slaughterhouses campaign.
Crowded into a small room, goats and sheep are dragged one at a time onto the kill platform, where their throats are brutally cut open without any attempt at stunning. While this slaughterhouse is one of only a handful in Australia that have an exemption to 'stick' without prior stunning for halal meat, they are required to ensure unconsciousness before shackling by stunning immediately after sticking, which is not occurring.
Despite these blatant contraventions of the Animal Welfare Act, reported to the South Australian government in July 2023, we received confirmation in December 2024 that no charges would be laid against the owners or staff of the facility and that it would be continuing its operations without significant changes.
TAKE ACTION:
Please contact Vic Gaffney, the Senior Investigator and Compliance Officer at the Department of Environment and Water, and demand the immediate closure of the facility, prosecution of its owners and staff, and Mr Gaffney’s resignation:
Email: DEW.Prosecutions@sa.gov.au (CC: premier@sa.gov.au, OfficeOfTheDeputyPremier@sa.gov.au, info@rspcasa.org.au)
A previous investigation in 2017 was featured in our 2018 documentary Dominion, and then published separately by Animal Liberation:
Goats freezing to death overnight in the outer holding pens
Goats picked off in front of each other with a bolt gun in a small, confined room, many screaming in fear
Sheep killed while partly or fully conscious
Cows shot multiple times with a rifle as they try to escape the knockbox
Pigs reluctant to enter the knockbox, stunned and sometimes cut in front of each other, writhing and thrashing violently on the floor as they bleed out, their heads then partly severed before a hook is used to drag them across the room to a bathtub used as a makeshift scalding tank
Children working the kill floor, one playing with a hanging pig’s head as a toy

South Ozzy Meats (Slaughterhouse, #357ac)
Address: LOT 93 East Terrace, Balaklava SA 5461, Australia

Strath Meats (Slaughterhouse, #92a3a)
Species: Pigs, Cows/cattle, Calves, Sheep
Address: 225 Ashbourne Rd, Strathalbyn SA 5255, Australia
Closed: December 2020. Discussion in news article of re-opening in 2021.
Hidden camera footage released by Animal Liberation in August 2018 shows:
Poor electrical stunning of pigs, causing clear pain (screams), and pigs still visibly conscious when throats cut
Pigs stunned and killed in front of each other
Pigs who haven’t been properly stunned drowning to death in scalding tank
Workers throwing/shoving sheep
Poor electrical stunning of sheep, again causing clear pain and often requiring multiple attempts before sheep rendered unconscious
Sheep regularly escaping knockbox and running around the kill floor amongst the hanging bodies
Slaughter of five-day-old male calves, who are ‘waste products’ of the dairy industry – previously thought to not happen in South Australia
The footage was provided to the RSPCA earlier in 2018, who as of August concluded that there would be no charges laid, as the cruelty depicted is lawful and standard-practice.
As of 2001 were killing camels, may not anymore given Peterborough kills camels.
Kills pigs and other animals for Austral Meat: "Our livestock is processed at Strath Pastoral – a multi-species, accredited facility. We maintain a close relationship with this abattoir, enabling us to control a consistent standard of product integrity."
Also kill deer- Onkaparinga Valley Venison has been processing deer at the Strathalbyn Abattoir since 1992, during which time various grades of ecchymosis have been noted in the meat. During 1998, the killing system for sheep was updated to enable slaughtering of deer, in an effort to lower the occurrence of ecchymosis. http://www.fallowvenison.com.au/

Tailem Bend Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #cce09)
Address: 8219 Princes Hwy, Tailem Bend SA 5260, Australia

Teys Australia - Naracoote Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #2939a)
Address: 886B 915 Wimmera Highway, Hynam SA 5262, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef)

TPL Meat Exports (Slaughterhouse, #37642)
Species: Sheep, Cows/cattle, Goats, Camels, Buffalo, Deer
Address: 634 Temby Road, Two Wells SA 5501, Australia
TPL Meat Exports (formerly Prime Valley Pastoral Company)

Two Brothers Meats (Slaughterhouse, #jzbt4)
Address: 38 Eckerman Rd, Lobethal SA 5241, Australia

Unknown slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #9a58d)
Address: Cooke Street, Kingston SE SA 5275, Australia

Waikerie Abattoir (Gateway Meat) (Slaughterhouse, #0542e)
Address: Searle Road, Waikerie SA 5330, Australia
Closed after an outbreak of Q Fever
teysbeenleighdanger.com/logan-city-council/1259-2/

Wudinna Meat Store (Slaughterhouse, #bcqi0)
Address: 3 Rashleigh Rd, Wudinna SA 5652, Australia

Bridgewater Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #ruh9p)
Address: Cobbs Hill Road, Bridgewater TAS 7030 Australia
Company de-registered 1999. ACN 009 560 187.

Collinsvale Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #c4f42)
Address: 75 69-75 Suhrs Road, Collinsvale TAS 7012, Australia

Devonport Pork Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #a5029)
Address: 1-7 Saleyard Road, Quoiba TAS 7310, Australia
Formerly owned by JBS as a domestic abattoir (beef, sheep, pig) until 2018 when JBS announced its closure. It then reopened under a new company, Devonport Pork, exclusively slaughtering pigs.

Doo-Town Game Meats (Slaughterhouse, #5633f)
Address: 20 Fairfield, 20 Tasmans Arch Rd, Eaglehawk Neck TAS 7179, Australia

Fingal Meatworks (Slaughterhouse, #sk0cd)
Address: 14 Sorell St, Fingal TAS 7214, Australia

Flinders Island Meat (Slaughterhouse, #b7bb1)
Address: 429 Lackrana Road, Lackrana TAS 7255, Australia
Anonymous submission, August 2022: "Our family business has recently purchased the flinders island abattoir.
Name: Game Meats of Tasmania
Email: gamemeatstas@outlook.com"

Former site of Cooee Point Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #4b1b6)
Address: 34A Cooee Point Rd, Cooee TAS 7320, Australia
Closed due to fire in 2012, has since been demolished.

Greenham Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #3085e)
Address: 2 Bacon Factory Road, Smithton TAS 7330, Australia

Gretna Meatworks (Slaughterhouse, #dcdcd)
Species: Pigs, Sheep, Goats, Cows/cattle
Address: 1261 Black Hills Road, Gretna TAS 7140, Australia
New footage captured in August-September 2023 by Farm Transparency Project shows that, in the seven years since first being exposed for horrific animal cruelty, nothing has changed.
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Formerly known as Gretna Quality Meats. Exposed by Animal Liberation NSW in October 2016. Hidden cameras captured workers hitting and inadequately stunning animals, shooting them with a rifle, and often stunning or killing them in front of each other.
One incident involved a sow who was shot in the head several times with a bolt gun, before workers gave up and went to retrive a rifle, failing to kill her with the first two shots before finally doing so on the third, almost two minutes later while she screamed and writhed in agony.
A "retired" dairy cow with a bloody broken leg was led into the knockbox and left there for roughly 80 minutes before being shot multiple times with the bolt gun. After her throat was cut, it was clear that she was still showing signs of consciousness, leading the workers to shoot her once more with the bolt gun, still failing to render her unconscious as blood poured out of her neck.
Other cows were ineffectively stunned numerous times with the bolt gun after desperately trying to escape the knockbox.
Sheep and goats were packed into two small pens and shot with the bolt gun one at a time in front of each other, the remaining animals growing more terrified with every shot. Some attempted to follow the stunned animals into the kill room - one sheep managed to do so, slipping and stumbling in the blood on the floor as she looked up at the hanging bodies, before being taken out of sight and seemingly killed without stunning.
Pigs were smacked and jabbed with pipes to force them up into the pens where they were stunned and killed in front of each other, flailing and writhing as blood spurted across the walls and floor.
Animal Liberation and RSPCA Tasmania called for the slaughterhouse to be shut down. After a 20-month-long investigation by the Tasmanian government, the slaughterhouse was given the all-clear to continue operating.

Highclere Abattoirs and Butchery (Slaughterhouse, #5b157)
Address: 202 Tena Road, Highclere TAS 7321, Australia

Inghams Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #75c6c)
Address: 82 Main Road, Sorell TAS 7172, Australia

King Island Prime Meats (Slaughterhouse, #y60ik)
Address: 436 Grassy Road, Nugara TAS 7256, Australia

King Island Processing Plant (Slaughterhouse, #7b25a)
Address: 68B 68 Morrison Avenue, Loorana TAS 7256, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Offal). Closed 2012.

Legerwood Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #72213)
Address: 139 Snake Track, Legerwood TAS 7263, Australia

Lenah Game Meats (Slaughterhouse, #f8c90)
Address: 315 George Town Road, Rocherlea TAS 7248, Australia

Lethborg Smallgoods (Slaughterhouse, #cj4eq)
Address: 23 Killafaddy Rd, St Leonards TAS 7250, Australia
An abattoir previously operated from this location.

Long Name Free Range Pork (Meat farm, #onh3b)
Categories: Meat farm, Slaughterhouse
Address: 10560 Tasman Hwy, Little Swanport TAS 7190, Australia

Longford Processing Plant (Slaughterhouse, #c1699)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep
Address: 22 Tannery Road, Longford TAS 7301, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Offal)
JBS meat processing fined after 19-year-old employee falls into tripe washing vat

Nichols Poultry Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #cc5e1)
Address: 380 Chapel Road, Sassafras TAS 7307, Australia

Scottsdale Pork (Slaughterhouse, #u41lr)
Address: 345 Ten Mile Track, Springfield TAS 7260, Australia
New footage has been released showing the slaughter of pigs at Scottsdale Pork slaughterhouse, owned by members of the controversial religious group, the 'Exclusive' Brethren. The footage shows pigs being hit across the face and body, kicked and crushed with heavy metal doors by workers, as well as apparently conscious pigs being tipped into a tank of scalding water, after having their throats slit.
Scottsdale Pork was built in 2020-21 after the closure of JBS Devonport, Tasmania’s only dedicated pig slaughterhouse. Despite being a private abattoir, primarily servicing Scottsdale Pork’s own nearby piggery, Tasmania’s Liberal government granted $2 million to Scottsdale Pork to assist in the build. This decision was heavily opposed by the Greens Party, due to the company's ties to the Exclusive Brethren religious group, whose leader holds widely documented transphobic and homophobic views and is a major donor and supporter of the Liberal party.
In September 2023, investigators from Farm Transparency Project installed covert cameras to document the slaughter of pigs at the facility, including the use of electrical stunning, which is considered to be an alternative to the carbon dioxide gas chambers used in the majority of pig slaughterhouses Australia wide.
The footage shows one pig making a desperate attempt to escape, leaping from the stunning restraint and running across the floor of the kill room. That pig is cornered by multiple workers and shot in the head with a bolt gun, before having their throat slit. They die, thrashing in agony on the floor of the kill room.
Also known as Ten Mile Enterprises Meat Facility.

Skyview Processing Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #9ae92)
Species: Pigs, Cows/cattle, Sheep
Address: 413 Cradoc Hill Road, Cradoc TAS 7109, Australia
Previously known as Cradoc Hill Abattoir and promoted as an "ethical abattoir", the facility was closed by the owner in 2017 following the release of covertly-obtained footage depicting cruelty to cows, sheep and pigs.
It has since reopened under new owners as Skyview Processing.

Tasmanian Quality Meats Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #61420)
Species: Sheep, Calves
Address: 5 Burlington Road, Cressy TAS 7302, Australia
On the outskirts of the town of Cressy, 30 minutes from Launceston, a series of corrugated iron buildings sits alongside a fast-flowing creek. This is Tasmanian Quality Meats, a multi-species slaughterhouse which specialises in the killing of tiny, days old bobby calves who have been discarded as waste from any of the 412 dairy farms in Tasmania.
At TQM, terrified calves are hit across the face and body to force them into a narrow walkway and, finally, into a restraint where an electric prodder is pushed into their skulls and an electrical current passed through their brain before their throats are slit. We saw many calves who weren’t stunned at all, meaning that they were killed while fully conscious, likely experiencing excruciating pain and terror as they slowly bled out. They then have their bodies taken apart and their blood collected. The bodies of these calves are often sold as veal, while their skins are used to create leather products, sought after for their softness.
The slaughter of sheep is no less violent. Our cameras filmed the use of dogs to herd and harass terrified sheep, who were then shoved, thrown and hit with paddles and pipes to force them towards the electric stunner. These dogs were then returned to metal and concrete cages, where they were left overnight, barking and running at the bars in boredom and frustration.
At TQM, we captured horrific scenes of tiny male calves being kicked, thrown, hit with paddles across the face and body and killed while fully conscious. We watched as one calf fell off the killing table into a pool of blood so deep that they were almost submerged. We saw them continue to blink up at us from the bottom of this horrific pit, a clear sign that they remained awake and aware as the blood drained from their body.
What we saw was horrifying, yet, we know that this violence is standard across Australia.
Take action now to demand that the Tasmanian government urgently address the systemic failures we have uncovered in their animal slaughter facilities.
Award-winning export abattoir. Kills sheep and bobby calves.
A hidden camera investigation in late 2016 revealed systemic cruelty. The footage was provided to the relevant authority, the Tasmanian Department of Primary Industries (DPIPWE); as of July 2017 there appears to have been no action taken by the department in response to the footage.
First exposed in May 2017 by Animal Liberation and Animal Liberation Tasmania with release of bobby calf slaughter footage ("wastage" from the dairy industry - see www.dropdairy.com.au for more information). Footage of sheep/lamb slaughter released by Animal Liberation in July 2017.
The footage shows workers repeatedly beating, kicking, and throwing the animals; and regular ineffective use of the electric stunner on sheep, with at least one slaughtered while fully conscious.

Tassie Farms Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #njpfa)
Species: Sheep, Pigs, Goats
Address: 130 Pages Rd, Grove TAS 7109, Australia
Kills sheep, pigs, goats

The Local Meat Co (Slaughterhouse, #e1df0)
Address: 1178 Claude Rd, Claude Road, Tasmania
Owned by 2024 Tasmanian of the Year, Stephanie Trethewey, and her husband Sam. Hidden camera footage shows ‘sustainable beef’ cows shot with a rifle up to eight times before losing consciousness and forced into the kill room using a hammer and a metal pipe. Investigators also captured footage of workers jabbing sheep and cows with painful electric prodders, including in the face and genitals, as well as beating, head-butting, kicking and throwing sheep to the ground.
One cow is documented crying out in pain after having been shot in the head multiple times, while others become stuck in the stunning box and have their head crushed in the machinery, while they continue to display signs of consciousness.
The footage is part of a comprehensive investigation of five Tasmanian slaughterhouses, which showed systemic violence, cruelty and illegal activity.
In 2022, Stephanie and Sam purchased the former Kentish Quality Meats slaughterhouse near Sheffield in northern Tasmania, and rebranded it as The Local Meat Co. This was proudly stated on their website and social media pages, and in media interviews, and confirmed in ASIC records and domain registrations.
Following the release of our hidden camera footage on 1 Jan 2024, Stephanie frantically attempted to hide evidence of her involvement in the company. Steph and Sam’s names have been removed from the @tas_ag_co account bio on instagram. Comments are disabled on the Tasmanian Agricultural Company Facebook page, which has blocked Farm Transparency Project's account, and the @tas_ag_co instagram has been set to private. The ‘what we do’ and ‘our story’ sections on their website have had key details removed, and the domain registration has been changed from Steph’s name to her husband’s.
Rather than taking accountability for the horrific cruelty we have exposed, Stephanie Trethewey has done everything to try to hide her involvement and minimise backlash.

Wal's Bulk Meats (Slaughterhouse, #0b0eb)
Species: Pigs, Sheep, Cows/cattle, Deer
Address: 5 Warra Road, Stowport TAS 7321, Australia
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.

Ararat Meat Exports (Slaughterhouse, #bbfb2)
Address: 343 Nott Rd, Ararat VIC 3377, Australia Export Abattoir (Sheep, Offal)

Australian Food Group Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #f9417)
Address: 8 -14 Hume Road, Laverton North VIC 3026, Australia
One of three facilities exposed by Farm Transparency Project (FTP) in early 2023, for using excruciating carbon dioxide gas chambers to suffocate pigs prior to slaughter. An FTP investigator spent 9 hours hidden in a maintenance area above the chamber, to film the gassing of the pigs.
The slaughterhouse was a supplier for major supermarket Woolworths.
In April 2023, Animals Australia lodged a formal complaint with the government regulartor PrimeSafe, based on FTP's footage. PrimeSafe instructed the slaughterhouse to install cameras inside their gas chamber; rather than doing so, they decided to close down their slaughter operations permanently, laying off 16 workers.

Australian Lamb Colac (Slaughterhouse, #19c86)
Address: 1 Tristania Drive, Colac East VIC 3250, Australia
Used to kill calves, don't believe they do anymore.
Anonoymous submission -
"former employee halal slaughter without stunning" - Jul 24 / 2020
Abattoirs

Australian Meat Group Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #76478)
Address: 342-368 Hammond Rd, Dandenong South VIC 3175, Australia
Fully refurbished state of the art Beef Abattoir. The facility will operate 6 days per week, and will process approximately 750 cattle per shift for export overseas.
May have previously been owned by Oxhill Pastoral Company Pty Ltd (ABN 34 006 588 085).

Benalla Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #29256)
Species: Pigs, Calves
Address: 75 Abbatoir, 75 Firth Road, Benalla VIC 3672, Australia
One of three facilities exposed by Farm Transparency Project in early 2023, for using excruciating carbon dioxide gas chambers to suffocate pigs prior to slaughter.
The slaughterhouse also kills calves from the dairy industry, and sheep.
Abattoirs

Cedar Meats (Slaughterhouse, #f597a)
Species: Sheep, Calves, Goats
Address: 690 Geelong Rd, Brooklyn VIC 3012, Australia
In June 2024, investigators from Farm Transparency Project installed hidden cameras at Cedar Meats, capturing the handling and slaughter of thousands of animals, including newborn lambs and kids born in the holding pens of the slaughterhouse. The footage shows workers writing and drawing on the bodies of sheep and goats with blood, animals appearing to have their throats slit while fully conscious, goats and sheep struggling while soaked in the blood of others and even one mother goat giving birth in the stunning restraint, seconds before her throat is slit.
Our investigation revealed such an exhaustive volume of abuse, illegal and sickening activity that we couldn't put it in just one video.
Over the month of September 2024, we will publish four videos showing the slaughter of each species killed at Cedar Meats. As usual, on releasing each video, we will publish additional footage on our website showing standard practice at the facility and how animals are treated when they believe that no one is watching.
Slaughterhouse #19 is one of our biggest yet. The heartbreaking suffering experienced by the animals whose deaths we captured will haunt us forever. But we are determined to continue to fight in their name.
Stay tuned for the first part of our exposé where we release footage of the brutal slaughter of days-old bobby calves, five years after footage of this practice was previously captured at Cedar Meats by Animal Liberation.

Cobram Processing Plant (Slaughterhouse, #5af59)
Address: 119 Freezer Worksabattoirs, 119 Racecourse Road, Cobram VIC 3644, Australia
Reopened in 2023 after being shut down for over 5 years. Kills sheep and goats.
Abattoirs

Davis Poultry Processing / Pindarri Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #d1667)
Address: 18 Seaside Parade, North Shore VIC 3214, Australia
Pindarri Poultry Pty Ltd was fined $8,060 and was also issued with an EPA Pollution Abatement Notice for dumping raw chicken scraps down a stormwater drain at North Shore.

Daylesford Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #0ef0c)
Address: 67 85 Leitches Creek Road, Daylesford VIC 3460, Australia
Pig slaughterhouse, stopped killing in 2004 but continued to be used for admin and as a boning facility:
www.thecourier.com.au/story/582622/30-jobs-lost-at-abattoir

Deutscher's Turkey Farm Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #d8adc)
Species: Turkeys
Address: Western Highway, Dadswells Bridge VIC 3385, Australia

Eastern Abattoirs (Slaughterhouse, #f034a)
Address: 41 David Street, Orbost VIC 3888, Australia

Edenhope Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #0b78f)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Pigs
Address: 11 Coleraine-Edenhope Road, Edenhope VIC 3318, Australia
Previously known as Edenhope Meats, the slaughterhouse has been owned by David John Meek and Christine Ann Meek since 2011. The couple live in Penola, South Australia, where they have a butcher shop, DJ & CA Meek Butchers, which has been operating for 40 years.
Over two weeks in October 2024, investigators installed hidden cameras inside the slaughterhouse,
Multiple instances of sheep, pigs, and goats actively struggling in the stun box, avoiding the worker’s attempts to stun them were captured. The rough, aggressive stabs of the electrical stunner into the animals’ heads is often ineffective and causes stressed and frightened behaviour. One of the sheep becomes so frightened that they leap from the stun box onto the kill room floor, where they are then tackled by workers and killed while fully conscious.
Cows in the knock box were shot with a bolt gun numerous times due to ineffective stunning. Oftentimes this caused the cows to be partially-stunned, still lifting their heads and struggling while the workers prepared to shoot them again.
Cows exhibited stressed and panicked behaviour, as they attempted to jump out of or turn around in the knock box before they were bolt gunned. Many continued showing signs of consciousness as they were moved to the tip out, often struggling and kicking while a worker cut their throats open.

Essex-Oaks Pty Ltd (Slaughterhouse, #7182e)
Address: 405 Lovers Lane, Garfield VIC 3814, Australia

Former Avoca Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #21ub6)
Address: 12 Abattoir Ln, Avoca VIC 3467, Australia
A former slaughterhouse, converted to a residence:

Former site of Ballan slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #4mmiu)
Address: 130 Gillespies Ln, Ballan VIC 3342, Australia
Closed in roughly the year 2000, demolished around 2020.
Urban exploration video in 2015: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zBFyz8i8Tgk

Former site of Horsham Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #eaxxv)
Address: 54 Golf Course Rd, Horsham VIC 3400, Australia
Abattoir closed 2008 and has since been demolished.

Former site of Penney & Lang Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #rcfnf)
Address: 11 Penney Ln, Carisbrook VIC 3464, Australia
Closed 2005 and since demolished.

Former slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #ykse8)
Address: 17 Binns Mccraes Road, Alexandra VIC 3714, Australia

Former slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #qd8yn)
Address: 30 Woorak-Ni Ni-Lorquon Rd, Glenlee VIC 3418, Australia

G & G McGillivray Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #bs1u1)
Address: 178 Gunbower Island Road, Gunbower VIC 3566, Australia
Closed 2017 after 60 years of operation, citing $50,000 in annual fees and time-intensive red tape.

G & K O'Connor Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #b6977)
Address: 940 Koo Wee Rup Road, Pakenham VIC 3810, Australia

Game Meats Company Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #e9ec9)
Species: Goats, Deer, Emus, Ostriches
Address: 319 Hughes Lane, Eurobin VIC 3739, Australia
An export-accredited, multi-species slaughterhouse in Eurobin, north-eastern Victoria. Hidden camera footage published by Farm Transparency Project in early 2024 reveals the brutal stunning and slaughter of hundreds of goats. Animals in the footage are seen jumping free of the restraint used to immobilise them before stunning and escaping into the kill room, where other goats are having their throats slit. Several goats show clear signs of consciousness, including blinking, lifting their heads and crying out, even while their throats are being slit and their heads and hooves removed.
Also captured is the slaughter of newborn goats, who are painfully electrocuted after being left in a plastic bucket for hours. One baby goat is captured crying out in pain for over two hours after an unsuccessful stunning attempt left them partially paralysed.
The slaughterhouse also sporadically kills deer, and has in the past killed emus and ostriches.
The footage included:
5 days of the restraint and stunning process in operation (29-31 January, 5-6 February 2024). Serious breaches of animal welfare legislation were identified on at least 3 of these days.
4 days of the 'sticking' (killing) area in operation (8-11 April 2024). Serious breaches of animal welfare legislation were identified on all 4 of these days.
5 days of the baby goat stunning room in operation (31 January, 1 February, 9-11 April 2024). Serious breaches of animal welfare legislation were identified on all 5 of these days.
A brief 14-minute sample of breaches was sent as part of a formal complaint by Farm Transparency Project, to the federal Department of Agriculture, Fisheries and Forestry (DAFF) in early May 2024. We requested a mailing address to which we could send the complete footage. No response was received.
Two weeks later, on 17 May 2024, we published over an hour of the footage on our website, including the 14 minute sample and 7 additional compilations. Shortly afterwards, we received notice of an injunction granted in secret that day by the Federal Court, forcing us to take down the footage or go to prison. Through court proceedings, it was revealed that instead of investigating the complaint, DAFF employee Jason Ollington quietly forwarded it to the slaughterhouse and warned them about potential media coverage, giving them time to seek the injunction. It was further revealed that the On-Plant Veterinarian, Dr Karl Texler, a DAFF employee posted at the slaughterhouse whose role involved enforcing animal welfare compliance, failed to report any breaches of animal welfare legislation despite such breaches being captured almost every day that our cameras were installed.
As of March 2025, DAFF has refused to review the entirety of breaches identified at the Game Meats Company slaughterhouse, and has made seemingly no effort to prosecute the owners, management or staff of the facility. As far as we are aware, Jason Ollington and Karl Texler remain employed by DAFF despite the significant concerns of corruption raised through the court case.
In submissions to the court, barrister for the Game Meats Company, Paul Hayes, deliberately misled the court by claiming that the footage covered a period of "weeks and months" in which "52,800 goats" were slaughtered, and that the 14 minute sample comprised the entirety of illegal behaviour and cruelty uncovered. This is the number of goats slaughtered between the time the first camera was installed, on 29 January, and when the last camera was removed, on 11 April, when in reality the cameras were only installed for a handful of days between these dates.
In searching for witnesses who could speak to the kind of cruelty our cameras had captured, we found that locals were scared to speak out against the slaughterhouse, for fear of violent reprisal towards them or their animals, and rumoured connections to organised crime.
Throughout the trial, it was repeatedly stressed by representatives of the Game Meats Company slaughterhouse that if this footage of their actions was to see the light of day, it could be extremely damaging for their reputation and profits, and that a permanent injunction was essential in order to protect them from any consequences of this cruel and illegal conduct.
In its decision handed down in late December 2024, the court refused to grant the injunction. The slaughterhouse appealed the decision, and in the appeal judgment delivered in August 2025, it was granted a permanent injunction on the basis of copyright ownership - a chilling new precedent with wide-reaching consequences for press freedom and public awareness. We will be seeking to appeal to the High Court.
To help us continue fighting for the goats who suffered at this slaughterhouse, please consider donating to our crowdfunding campaign.

Gathercole's Carrum Downs Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #cdbf3)
Species: Cows/cattle, Goats, Sheep
Address: 22 Robinson Rd, Carrum Downs VIC 3201, Australia
Leaked CCTV footage released by animal rights groups in 2018 reveal the horrific day-to-day reality of sheep slaughter.
Domestic Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Goat, Offal).

Gathercole's Tatura Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #78205)
Address: 60 Martin St, Tatura VIC 3616, Australia
Domestic sheep abattoir.

Gathercole's Wangaratta Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #59c0f)
Species: Cows/cattle, Goats, Pigs, Sheep
Address: 57 Greta Rd, Wangaratta VIC 3677, Australia
10 years ago, this slaughterhouse was one of the first investigated by the recently launched organisation, Aussie Farms (now Farm Transparency Project). At the time, investigators filmed pigs, cows, sheep and calves being beaten and violently slaughtered across two, blood-soaked kill rooms. A decade later, we returned and spent two months installing cameras inside the multi-species slaughterhouse, which sits on a residential street in the busy, rural city of Wangaratta.
The scale of suffering we uncovered was so bad that we’ve had to split it across two videos.
In the cow kill room, workers force cows into a knockbox with an electric prodder, before shooting them in the head with a handheld bolt gun. Often, cows are forced into the narrow box two at a time, trampling on each other in panic as they are shot one-by-one. Our cameras revealed that, more often than not, cows would not be stunned on the first attempt, and would be shot up to four times as they thrashed and tried to escape.
Dozens of these cows are ‘spent’ dairy cows, discarded from the dairy industry at 4-6 years of age when they are no longer able to produce enough milk. These exhausted mothers were seen thrashing and kicking as their throats were cut and they slowly bled out onto the kill room floor.

GBP Australia Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #2694c)
Address: 67 60 Gardner Lane, Poowong VIC 3988, Australia
Anonymous submission:

Gippsland Meats (Slaughterhouse, #0f8cb)
Species: Rabbits, Sheep, Goats
Address: 117 Holloway St, Bairnsdale VIC 3875, Australia
A small slaughterhouse that kills rabbits, sheep and goats, and 'processes' hunted wildlife including kangaroos. Rabbit slaughter exposed in 2024 following a hidden camera investigation by Farm Transparency Project.

Glenloth Game / Australian Game Processors / Baramul Processing (Slaughterhouse, #55b2c)
Species: Pigs, Sheep, Goats, Deer, Emus, Chickens
Address: Unnamed Road, Bunguluke VIC 3527, Australia
Apparently now closed. Used to kill suckling pigs, Chicken, Sheep, Goat, Deer, Squab, Emu, Rabbit, Pheasant, Guinea Fowl, Partridge

Golden Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #71f58)
Address: Hulett Street, Albion VIC 3020, Australia

Goldfields Turkeys (Slaughterhouse, #6012d)
Address: 25-39 Melbourne Road, St Arnaud VIC 3478, Australia

Gordyn Abattoirs (Slaughterhouse, #b5136)
Address: 31 Fosterton Road, Cobains VIC 3851, Australia
Closed following fire in 2017, no known plans to reopen.
Owned by Brian Keith Gordyn

Greenham Gippsland (Moe Meats) (Slaughterhouse, #447cb)
Address: 330 Moe-Walhalla Road, Tanjil South VIC 3825, Australia

Hardwick Meatworks Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #3909a)
Species: Cows/cattle, Goats, Sheep
Address: 18 22 Saleyards Road, Kyneton VIC 3444, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Goat, Offal)

Hazeldene's Chicken Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #d6050)
Address: Hazeldenes Road, Lockwood VIC 3551, Australia

Hurstbridge Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #c6e7a)
Address: Gosfield Road, Hurstbridge VIC 3099, Australia
As of April 2014 appears to be shut down.
Slaughters pigs.

HW Greenham & Sons Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #70e4d)
Address: 2121 Finlay Road, Tongala VIC 3621, Australia

Illegal slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #m1lf4)
Address: 115 Beatties Rd, Koo Wee Rup VIC 3981, Australia
Hidden camera footage, which shows sheep being brutally slaughtered without stunning, some of whom attempt to escape with their heads half removed, was provided to Victorian MP Andy Meddick in late July 2019 after an anonymous source provided it to the makers of Australian documentary Dominion, Aussie Farms.
Meddick made a formal complaint to Primesafe, the Statutory Authority that regulates the safety of meat, and is calling for the facility to be completely closed down and for those responsible to be prosecuted.
Meddick also says the release of this footage could not have come at a more crucial time, as it shows the importance of the work animal activists do, yet a parliamentary inquiry is being held in Victoria which could potentially increase penalties for whistleblowers.

Inghams Poultry Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #34e3c)
Address: 121 Grant Rd, Somerville VIC 3912, Australia

JBS Brooklyn Processing Plant (Slaughterhouse, #bed89)
Address: 30 Industry Park Dr, Brooklyn VIC 3012, Australia

JBS Pork Australia (formerly Diamond Valley Pork) (Slaughterhouse, #e4797)
Address: 13-15 73-87 Boundary Road, Laverton North VIC 3026, Australia
Formerly owned by Rivalea which was acquired by JBS in 2021. Branding changed to JBS in 2025.
One of three facilities featured in our 2023 investigation into the gas stunning of pigs in Australian slaughterhouses. Diamond Valley Pork kills up to 1 million pigs per year, roughly 20% of the national total.
Staff: 300
Pigs processed per hour: between 620 and 850
Pigs processed per year: 1,000,000
Pork processed per year: 1,500,000kg
Pork produced per year: 75,000,000kg (75,000 tonnes)
From 2023 virtual tour: https://www.australianpork.com.au/virtual-tour
Distribution Centre

JBS Swift Yarrawonga Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #3adda)
Address: 43 Vens River Proprietary Limited Abatior, 43 Hicks Road, Yarrawonga VIC 3730, Australia
Reportedly now closed:

Koallah Farm Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #f8b03)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Goats, Alpacas, Buffalo
Address: 191 Purrumbete Estate Rd, Koallah VIC 3260, Australia
"Boutique abattoir"

Kooweerup Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #jcsvd)
Address: Prestons Rd, Koo Wee Rup VIC 3981, Australia
Company de-registered 2009, ABN cancelled 2012. Operations presumed closed.

KR Castlemaine Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #9d885)
Address: Richards Road, Castlemaine VIC 3450, Australia
Slaughtering and boning operations closed in 2007:

La Ionica Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #a00a8)
Address: 5 Lipton Dr, Thomastown VIC 3074, Australia
Chicken abattoir

LE Giles & Sons Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #ae6e6)
Species: Pigs, Cows/cattle
Address: 71 Giles Rd, Trafalgar VIC 3824, Australia
Reopened in 2016 as Victoria Valley Meat Exports.
On the 21st of November 2011, an undercover Victorian animal advocate working under the alias 'Kate' was given access to the kill floor of a Victorian abattoir - LE Giles & Sons Abattoir - which had been operating in the rural town of Trafalgar for 60 years. What she captured on film was a rare glimpse into the inner workings of Australian abattoirs. The footage shocked and appalled authorities who, within hours of receiving a formal complaint and video from Animals Australia, shut the slaughterhouse down and launched a full investigation. Three workers pleaded guilty to cruelty charges.
In her witness statement 'Kate' described how stunning equipment was routinely stabbed into the eyes and ears of pigs and recounted the awful final moments of one terrified pig who had escaped the killing pen before being beaten to death with a sledgehammer. Tragically, another escaped pig ran into the scalding tank.
Animals Australia lodged a complaint with PrimeSafe - the industry regulator - who immediately ordered the closure of Giles Abattoir pending animal cruelty investigations. Charges were laid against five individuals under the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals Act 1996 (VIC) (POCTAA) for alleged acts of animal cruelty.
On 6 September 2012, three of the former employees were prosecuted by the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) in Latrobe Valley Magistrates Court. The three men pled guilty to the charges and Magistrate Ian Watkins gave the defendants a 12 month good behaviour bond, although no convictions were recorded. Watkins held that the acts were not intentional, and a tougher sentence was not necessary, as the defendants had already suffered enough by losing their jobs.
The charges against the remaining employee and the co-owner were due to be heard in the Morwell Magistrate’s Court on 15 April 2013. The charges, however, were dropped by the DPI without explanation and the investigation was never concluded. Currently, the Trafalgar abattoir remains out of operation.
Australian regulations and standards failed to protect these animals from cruelty but as the footage reveals, even if they had, animals would still have been afraid; they still would have suffered.
Wherever animals are handled and slaughtered on mass there will be suffering and there will be fear. This is the reality of factory farming and slaughterhouses in Australia.

Limnos Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #a4fcd)
Address: 109-111 Craig Road, Cranbourne South VIC 3977, Australia

Loddon County Lamb (Slaughterhouse, #89d2c)
Address: 60 Abattoirs Road, Pyramid Hill VIC 3575, Australia
Sign out front confirms "meats international".
ABN cancelled 2008, company de-registered 2009.

Loddon Valley Abattoirs (Slaughterhouse, #5facf)
Address: 193 194 Dunolly Inglewood Road, Inglewood VIC 3517, Australia
Closed in 2015: http://www.abc.net.au/local/photos/2015/09/17/4314679.htm

Longview Emu Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #k4th2)
Species: Emus
Address: 384 Tragowel Rd, Tragowel VIC 3579, Australia

Luv-A-Duck Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #6bdc7)
Species: Ducks
Address: 160 Rupps Rd, Nhill VIC 3418, Australia
Footage released by Animal Liberation in June 2018 shows that ducks are frequently not stunned properly, having their throats cut while conscious.
Kills approx 100,000 ducks per week (20,000 per weekday). Supplied from 28 contracted breeder and grower farms in the Wimmera region.

Madina Halal Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #5307f)
Address: 23 Lincoln St, Laverton North VIC 3026, Australia
Halal

MC Herd Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #ab70d)
Address: 245-255 Bacchus Marsh Road, Corio VIC 3214, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Offal)

MD Foods Australia (Slaughterhouse, #12eb9)
Address: 10 Goulburn Rd, Echuca VIC 3564, Australia
On the banks of the Murray River, MD Foods slaughters thousands of sheep and goats every week in a purpose built killing factory.
Previously known as Riverside Meats, the slaughterhouse was exposed twice by Animals Australia in 2013 and 2016, with footage showing abuse, poor stunning and suffering of sheep, cows, goats and bobby calves. These investigations led to significant media coverage and the slaughterhouse was forced to install CCTV, before opting to shut down in 2018 amid protests from workers.
Three years later they quietly reopened as MD Foods Australia. Three years after that, we visited to see if much had changed.
They may have a new name, but our cameras captured the same violence and abuse towards animals. From the holding pens to the race, sheep and goats were pulled by their ears and horns, pinned by gates, and roughly thrown through the air by workers.
Upon being restrained, improper stunning and mishandling led to many animals escaping onto the kill floor, being painfully stunned multiple times, and even being killed while fully conscious. Some struggled so violently after having their throats cut that they broke free of the shackle line and were left to thrash on the kill floor as the blood of others washed over them.
The recent footage bears a disturbing resemblance to the cruelty uncovered almost 10 years ago by Animals Australia. All of this abuse was done in clear sight of the same CCTV cameras which were installed to prevent cruelty all those years ago. There is no compassion, remorse, or consequences. These animals are abused at every step along the path towards their painful deaths.
Parent company:
Dabbagh Enterprises Pty Ltd
Address: 3-15 Plummer Rd, Laverton North, VIC 3026
E-mail: info@dabbaghtrading.com
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/dabbaghqm/
Demand action:
Contact the Federal Minister for Agriculture, Julie Collins MP
Contact the Victorian Minister for Agriculture, Ros Spence MP
Prior investigations
First investigation (2013):
Footage taken by hidden cameras inside Riverside Meats Abattoir, Echuca VIC, was anonymously provided to Animals Australia in early 2013.
The footage depicts young calves being pushed, shocked with electric prods, hit and dragged up a metal ramp to be slaughtered; "waste products" of the dairy industry. Some, too weak to stand, are thrown into the slaughter chute. Over 700000 calves are killed each year at around 5 days old so that their mothers can continue producing milk to be sold to consumers.
Upon receiving the footage, Animals Australia lodged a formal complaint with the Department of Primary Industries (DPI) for breaches of Victorian animal cruelty laws and the illegal use of an electric prod on a calf. A formal complaint was also lodged with PrimeSafe for breaches of the Australian Standards governing welfare at abattoirs; PrimeSafe ordered the practices cease immediately. Investigations have now concluded - incredibly, no charges have been laid. Instead, the abattoir owners and several workers were issued with formal warnings by DPI.
Second investigation (2016):
Exposed a second time by Animals Australia in November 2016: www.animalsaustralia.org/features/they-stabbed-babies. Hidden camera footage showed horrific abuse to bobby calves ('waste products' of the dairy industry), goats, sheep, cows and pigs.

Midfield Meat Group Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #09d69)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Calves
Address: 23 Scott St, Warrnambool VIC 3280, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Offal) Bobby calves

Mildura Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #3mgoh)
Address: 47 Gordon Avenue, Mildura VIC 3500, Australia
Closed 2004, reopened August 2018.
"The controversial project was approved by the Victorian Civil and Administrative Tribunal despite a campaign by neighbours to stop the plant reopening.
The company is planning to process 6,000 sheep, lambs and goats per week."

Myrtleford Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #e7459)
Address: 39 Abbatoir, 39 Forest Lane, Barwidgee VIC 3737, Australia
Closed
Presumed closed.
Myrtleford Abattoirs Pty ltd de-registered 2006.
Unknown affiliation with Jaafar Abattoir Pty Ltd (ACN: 101 226 528, ABN: 66 101 226 528), de-registered 2005.
Property ownership transferred from MYRTLEFORD ABATTOIRS PTY LTD to BONTHARAMBO NOMINEES PTY LTD in 2001.

Mystic Squab Farm & Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #01c9f)
Address: Grey Road, Mystic Park VIC 3579, Australia

Prom Meats (Slaughterhouse, #5bca5)
Address: 75 Ameys Track, Foster VIC 3960, Australia
Closed early 2000's.

Rabbit slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #6bb7b)
Species: Rabbits
Address: Foch Street, North Shore VIC 3214, Australia

Radford Meats (Slaughterhouse, #a71d2)
Address: 1 25 Skinners Road, Warragul VIC 3820, Australia
Domestic Abattoir (Beef, Sheep)

Ralphs Meat Co (Slaughterhouse, #cb657)
Address: 55 Granville Drive, Seymour VIC 3660, Australia
Ralphs Meat Co is an export abattoir for cattle, located just outside of Seymour in northern Victoria.
Hidden camera footage captured by investigators from Farm Transparency Project (FTP) in February 2024 shows ineffective stunning of injured and emaciated cows.
The daily slaughter of up to 500 cows, steers and bulls is documented, with many of those killed being dairy cows whose milk production has slowed. Footage shows workers jabbing cows in the face and head with painful electric prodders, and repeatedly hitting them with metal gates. Many show signs of consciousness after 'stunning' and even after their throats have been slit, suffering for minutes.
The Victorian slaughterhouse regulator, Primesafe, has launched a formal investigation with the federal Department of Agriculture in response to a complaint made by Farm Transparency project.

Ryan's Wholesale Meats (Slaughterhouse, #971c9)
Address: 151 Ryans Road, Nathalia VIC 3638, Australia
Domestic Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Offal)

Solomon Kosher Butcher (Slaughterhouse, #86ae0)
Address: Lincoln Street, Laverton North VIC 3026, Australia

St Clair Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #1mtec)
Address: 2840 Korumburra-Wonthaggi Road, St Clair VIC 3995, Australia

Star Poultry (Slaughterhouse, #b004f)
Species: Chickens, Turkeys
Address: 82 Kirkham Road West, Keysborough VIC 3173, Australia
Slaughters spent egg-laying hens, broiler chickens, and turkeys.

Sunrise Chicken (Slaughterhouse, #6c6cb)
Address: 20 Missens Rd, Cranbourne VIC 3977, Australia
Ceased operating as a slaughterhouse at some point in 2023-24.

Swan Hill Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #9fd18)
Species: Sheep, Goats, Cows/cattle
Address: 334C 334c River Road, Swan Hill VIC 3585, Australia
Domestic Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Goat, Offal)

Tabro Meat (Slaughterhouse, #7e02d)
Address: 2140 Korumburra-Wonthaggi Road, Lance Creek VIC 3995, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Offal).
Also known as St Clair Abattoir.
Sold to MMG in July 2020 after being closed for sometime:
"The Wonthaggi plant is expected to be running again by the end of August or early September [2020] and will begin by accepting dairy culls, bulls and aged beef."

Tallangatta Meat Processors (Slaughterhouse, #76c92)
Address: 397 Bryants Gap Road, Tallangatta VIC 3700, Australia
From Smiths TMP's website:
"Tallangatta Meat Processors (Smith’s TMP) have a long and proud history in the Australian Meat Industry. Family Owned and Operated for over 40 years, we pride ourselves on our commitment to Quality, Reliability & Customer Relationships.
We process Lamb & Mutton for both Domestic and International Markets. Our Meat Processing plant is located on the border of NSW and Victoria approximately 40km from Albury.
We recognize our people are our community. We are committed to be an employer of choice through our training and development programs, renumeration structures, working conditions and the overall wellbeing of our people.
Our products include Lamb and Mutton Carcass, Carcass parts, Red & Green Offal, Skins and Ovine By-Products. We strive to source locally utilizing highly skilled buyers to ensure quality that is representative of our brand. We continue to invest heavily in infrastructure and cutting-edge technology to build our future.
We are committed to growth locally and internationally by providing a superior product and service underpinned by hard work and dedication, hands-on management and long held family values."

Thalia Park - Gippsland Farmed Rabbits Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #18097)
Species: Rabbits
Address: 202 Araluen Rd, Yarragon VIC 3823, Australia

Thomas Foods (Frewstal) Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #603fb)
Address: 46 Abattoir Road, Stawell VIC 3380, Australia
Export Abattoir (Sheep)

Turkey Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #0b2b3)
Address: 5 Mount Lookout Rd, Ellaswood VIC 3875, Australia

Turosi Geelong Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #2ad8a)
Address: 47 Leather St, Breakwater VIC 3219, Australia
Previously known as Golden Farms poultry abattoir.

Victoria Valley Meat Exports (Slaughterhouse, #dbb93)
Address: 71 Giles Abattoirs, 71 Giles Road, Trafalgar VIC 3824, Australia
Formerly LE Giles & Sons Abattoir, closed in 2011 by PrimeSafe following footage of animal cruelty, reopened under new owners in 2016 as Victoria Valley Meat Exports.
"Gippsland abattoir sheds dark past to begin new life as global red meat exporter:
The new owners of a Gippsland abattoir have distanced themselves from an animal cruelty incident at the hands of the former operator to establish a worldwide export business.
Victoria Valley Meat Exports has built a new processing facility at the former site of Giles Abattoir in Trafalgar, which had its licence cancelled four years ago after reports of animal cruelty.
Victoria Valley Meat Exports owner Peter Polovinka said he would operate the new abattoir under a Tier Two export licence, which gives the processor access to every overseas market, except China."
Source:
Anonymous submission -
"Regarding Giles rd saughterhouse here in Trafalgar, which was closed after the cruelty charges, then burned down, then rebuilt and rebranded Victoria Valley, is now owned by Central Agri Group and is a halal slaughter yard. I live in Trafalgar and was unaware of change of ownwership/processing,not advertised, but a muslim co worker (in another town) told me. I dont know if this information is any use. " - 06/09/2020

Wagstaff Cranbourne Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #d5c71)
Address: 1500 Thompsons Road, Cranbourne East VIC 3977, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Offal)

Westside Meats (Slaughterhouse, #2ecea)
Address: 6 Abattoir, 6 Woolpack Road, Bacchus Marsh VIC 3340, Australia

Wodonga Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #d64d9)
Species: Cows/cattle, Goats, Sheep, Calves
Address: 54 59 Kelly Street, Wodonga VIC 3690, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Goat, Offal).
Formerly owned by Norvic Food Processing.
Facility's website boasts that they "process large numbers of livestock such as: up to 70,000 cows, up to 1,200,000 sheep and lambs, up to 10,000 bobby calves, up to 300,000 goats." The Wodonga Abattoir exports meat overseas and is halal certified. They state that they are "one of the country's major processors of rangeland goat[s]." - 08/22

Al-Q Meat Exports (formerly Geraldton Meat Exports) (Slaughterhouse, #06503)
Species: Goats, Sheep
Address: 63 Abattoir Road, Moonyoonooka WA 6532, Australia
Name and title transfer in 2023
Export Abattoir (Sheep, Goat, Offal)

Avon Valley Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #f409c)
Address: 503 Northam-Pithara Road, Irishtown WA 6401, Australia

Baiada Slaughterhouse (Slaughterhouse, #8a381)
Address: 116 Howe St, Osborne Park WA 6017

Beaufort River Meats (Slaughterhouse, #f28a2)
Species: Goats, Sheep
Address: 346 Leggoe Road, Beaufort River WA 6394, Australia

Bigfoot Meats (formerly Yeeda Boutique Abattoir) (Slaughterhouse, #5eab8)
Address: LOT. 71 DP26866, WA, Australia

Carnarvon Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #9ujpy)
Address: 1130 North River Road, North Plantations WA 6701, Australia
Listed for sale.

Colourstone Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #dff20)
Address: 210 Great Northern Highway ROEBUCK WA 6725
Export abattoir (beef).
Anonymous submission - Unconfirmed.
"Facility is closed" - May 27 / 2021

Dardanup Butchering Company (Slaughterhouse, #e4e5b)
Species: Sheep, Cows/cattle, Goats, Pigs, Rabbits
Address: 100 Wimbridge Road PICTON WA 6229
Domestic Abattoir (Beef, Sheep, Goat, Pig, Offal)

Eastern Districts Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #2c609)
Address: Unnamed Road, Merredin WA 6415, Australia

Fletcher International Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #bdcc7)
Address: 520 486 Settlement Road, Narrikup WA 6326, Australia
Export abattoir (sheep, goat, offal)
http://www.fletchint.com.au/contact/albany-abotoir
Owned by the same company as the abattoir of the same name in Dubbo, NSW

Food Security International TA Corrigin Meatworks (Slaughterhouse, #py9ac)
Address: 825 Dilling Railway Road, Corrigin WA 6375, Australia
Beef, Goat, Lamb, Sheep. Possibly closed.

Gearings Meatworks (formerly D & K Hagan Bros Abattoir) (Slaughterhouse, #a6e77)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Pigs, Rabbits, Goats
Address: 35528 Brand Highway, Rudds Gully WA 6532, Australia
Domestic Abattoir ( Beef, Sheep, Pig )

Gingin Meatworks Abattoir (Borrello Beef) (Slaughterhouse, #f5daf)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Goats
Address: 195 326 Cockram Road, Lennard Brook WA 6503, Australia
Export Abattoir (Beef, Sheep).
Also known as Witan Holdings and Borello Beef.

Goodchild Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #bd4e0)
Address: 189 Rosamel Road PARKFIELD WA 6233
Domestic Abattoir (Beef, Sheep). Closed 2018:

Harvey Beef (Slaughterhouse, #a5ea5)
Address: LOT. 147 P2492, WA, Australia

Hillside Meat Processors (Slaughterhouse, #77e23)
Address: 148 Boxsell Road, Hillside WA 6312, Australia
Export sheep slaughterhouse (as of 2023)

Ingham Enterprises (Slaughterhouse, #646b2)
Address: 9 Baden Street, Osborne Park WA Australia 6017

Karnet Prison Farm Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #dc399)
Species: Cows/cattle, Goats, Sheep, Pigs
Address: 4 Kingsbury Dr, Serpentine WA 6125, Australia

Kellerberrin Abattoir and Butchery (Slaughterhouse, #adc14)
Address: LOT. 113 DP46980, WA, Australia
Wamia Approved as of 2023

Konynen Farm (formerly Baldivis Rabbits) (Meat farm, #da16d)
Species: Rabbits
Categories: Meat farm, Slaughterhouse
Address: Young Road, Baldivis WA 6171, Australia
Exposed by Animal Liberation NSW in September 2016. Rabbits are kept in tiny, filthy wire cages suspended above piles of manure. Investigators found numerous dead and sick/injured rabbits.
The rabbits are killed in an on-site abattoir, their meat sold in independent butchers across Perth.

Linley Valley Pork (Slaughterhouse, #76b58)
Address: 50 Linley Valley Road, Wundowie WA 6560, Australia
Export Abattoir (Pig, Offal)
Gas chamber.
In 2016 they upgraded from slaughtering 3000 to 5000 pigs a day with the funding from a Norwegian investor.

Minerva Foods (formerly Great Eastern Abattoirs) (Slaughterhouse, #5be47)
Address: 15489 Great Eastern Highway, North Tammin WA 6409, Australia
Closed in 2025. Export Abattoir ( Sheep Goat Offal )

Minerva Foods Australia (formerly Shark Lake Food Group Abattoir) (Slaughterhouse, #0404d)
Address: Coolgardie-Esperance Highway, Myrup WA 6450, Australia
Closed 2023:
Also known as Minerva Foods Esperance

Mt Barker Chicken Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #34e9e)
Address: 703 Lake Matilda Road, Kendenup WA 6323, Australia

Peter's Poultry (aka Prestige Poultry) (Slaughterhouse, #bb86a)
Address: Dellamarta Road, Wangara WA 6065, Australia

Southdale Pet Meats (formerly Southdale Horse Knackery) (Slaughterhouse, #fd525)
Address: 49 566 South Western Highway, Darling Downs WA 6122, Australia
https://der.wa.gov.au/component/k2/item/21338-l9352-2022-1

Southern Brook Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #lrsje)
Address: 504 LOT. 504 D92831, WA, Australia

Unknown (Slaughterhouse, #b9p6g)
Address: Packsaddle Road, Kununurra WA 6743, Australia

V&V Walsh Abattoirs (Slaughterhouse, #ee2f0)
Species: Cows/cattle, Sheep, Goats
Address: 1 31 Rawling Road, Davenport WA 6230, Australia
Export Abattoir ( Beef, Sheep, Offal )

WA College of Agriculture – Cunderdin (Meat farm, #80z1b)
Categories: Meat farm, Dairy farm, Slaughterhouse
Address: 267 Cunderdin-Wyalkatchem Road, Cunderdin WA 6407, Australia
Farm and abattoir located at the WA College of Agriculture

WA College of Agriculture – Denmark (Meat farm, #3a8qd)
Address: 956 South Coast Highway, Denmark WA 6333, Australia
WA College of Agriculture - Denmark is a 560 hectare working farm and educational facility for Year 10, 11 and 12 students offering a wide variety of studies and industry training with an agricultural focus. We attract students from all over the state from a wide variety of backgrounds and have a capacity of around 140 students.

WA College of Agriculture – Morawa (Meat farm, #ri1ua)
Address: 60 Milloy Street, Morawa WA 6623, Australia
The WA College of Agriculture - Morawa, is a highly regarded College which provides Education and Training in Agriculture and related trades to students in Years 10, 11 and 12.

WA College of Agriculture – Narrogin (Meat farm, #z4oo9)
Categories: Meat farm, Slaughterhouse, Egg farm
Address: 216 Cooraminning Road, Dumberning WA 6312, Australia
The Western Australian College of Agriculture Narrogin (WACoA) is located approximately eight kilometres west of the regional town of Narrogin in the Wheatbelt. The college is situated on a beautiful 1,404 hectare commercial farm supporting both mixed cropping and livestock, along with industry standard Trades facilities. We run commercial Merino sheep, a Suffolk stud, Black Angus cattle and a free-range commercial egg production enterprise.

Waroona Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #xx78i)
Address: 86 Waterous Road, Wagerup WA 6215, Australia
Sold in 2023. Current operation unknown.

West Australian Meat Marketing Co-Op (WAMMCO) Abattoir (Slaughterhouse, #584f5)
Address: 27983 Great Southern Highway, Katanning WA 6317, Australia

Western Meat Processors (formerly Cowaramup Abattoir) (Slaughterhouse, #0ce80)
Address: 186 176 Saunders Road, Cowaramup WA 6284, Australia
Export Abattoir Beef