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Sydney.
Australia insisted Wednesday that livestock safeguards introduced after an
animal cruelty row with Indonesia were working, despite new footage showing
cattle mistreatment in the Southeast Asian nation.
Agriculture
Minister Joe Ludwig said he was “shocked” by the latest video, shot by activist
group Animals Australia last month in Indonesian slaughterhouses, showing
distressed cows being hosed, prodded and in pain.
One cow is
shown still bellowing more than one minute after its throat is cut as workers
begin cutting flesh from its neck.
Animals
Australia spokeswoman Lyn White said the footage showed Indonesian workers
“cannot even be relied upon not to start cutting up Australian animals before
they are dead.”
Canberra
halted all live cattle exports to Indonesia for a month last year after a
strong public backlash to similar footage aired in a television documentary.
It only
resumed the trade after Indonesia agreed to a strict new licensing system
designed to protect animal welfare.
Ludwig said
“many in the community would be horrified” by the latest footage, which shows
forms of mistreatment the new system was designed to stamp out, but he insisted
the safeguards were working.
“If this
industry does want a bright future it has to put animal welfare at the heart of
the system. What we now have is a system that allows that to happen,” Ludwig
told ABC radio.
“Many exporters
manage the supply chain, do all the right things, but I said right at the
beginning when I put this system in place that we would see instances like
this, we would see slips, we would see mistakes.”
Ludwig said
he had referred the video to the livestock export regulator and efforts were
underway to trace the animals to their Australian origin and to determine the
slaughterhouses shown in the video.
“The
regulator is now investigating the footage with Animals Australia and the RSPCA
to identify which abattoirs and which supply chains are involved,” he said.
“If they
are Australian cattle and if we can identify the exporter then we can take
appropriate action against that exporter.”
In
instances where cruelty to exported livestock was “beyond the pale” he added
that the new system allowed for “very strong” remedial action.
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