A sheep attempts to escape from the stun pen - Hidden cameras captured sheep, goats and pigs being shot with a handheld stunning device. Sheep, goats and pigs would be herded into the pens together, then isolated and picked off one by one, in front of each other. Sheep would often try and jump out of the stun pen and were roughly handled by workers to hold them still and shoot them with the handheld bolt gun. - Captured at Gretna Meatworks, Gretna TAS Australia.

A sheep attempts to escape from the stun pen

Hidden cameras captured sheep, goats and pigs being shot with a handheld stunning device. Sheep, goats and pigs would be herded into the pens together, then isolated and picked off one by one, in front of each other. Sheep would often try and jump out of the stun pen and were roughly handled by workers to hold them still and shoot them with the handheld bolt gun.
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Published Tue 30 January 2024
Captured/filmed September 2023
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Farm Transparency Project
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Country Australia
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Gretna Meatworks, Gretna, Tasmania, Australia

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