• New hidden camera footage from Farm Transparency project shows the brutal slaughter of hundreds of goats at the Game Meats Company abattoir in Eurobin, north-eastern Victoria.
• Footage shows adult goats being wrestled and hit by workers as well as newborn goats left to suffer for hours after being unsuccessfully stunned using painful electric tongs. Many goats display signs of consciousness, including calling out and blinking even after their throats have been slit.
• This is the fourth Victorian slaughterhouse exposed by Farm Transparency Project since January. They’re calling for the immediate closure of the facilities investigated and an urgent state inquiry into the lack of legal protection for animals killed for food.

Photos and footage: https://www.farmtransparency.org/facilities/e9ec9-game-meats-company-abattoir 

Animal advocacy organisation Farm Transparency Project has released new hidden camera footage, taken during a covert investigation by the group early this year.

The footage was captured at the Game Meats Company, an export approved, multi-species slaughterhouse in Eurobin, north-eastern Victoria. It shows the 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. 

Strategy and Campaigns Director at Farm Transparency Project, Harley McDonald-Eckersall says that, while they have reported the facility to the state and federal authorities, they have little hope that anything will be done.

“This is the fourth Victorian slaughterhouse we’ve exposed this year and the 17th Australian slaughterhouse we’ve investigated since March 2023. Each one, we’ve reported to the relevant authorities, yet barely any action has been taken.”

“What is happening at these slaughterhouses is not only immoral, it is illegal under state and federal legislation. The fact that Australian governments are not only ignoring the systemic issues at these facilities but, in the case of Tasmania, rewarding slaughterhouses exposed for extreme animal cruelty with further funding, is sickening and unacceptable.”

“If governments don’t act soon, citizens may well be forced to take drastic action.”

Ms. McDonald-Eckersall refers to the recent decision of the Tasmanian minister for primary industries, Jane Howlett to grant $430,000 to Tasmanian Quality Meats slaughterhouse, despite a 2023 investigation by Farm Transparency Project showing that the facility was killing dozens of week old bobby calves without stunning. This investigation led to the federal department of Agriculture to temporarily ban TQM from slaughtering calves, until they upgraded their equipment.