Reports from our southern neighbour of gross mistreatment of cattle at Indonesian abattoirs.
In a Australian Broadcasting Corporation documentary on the Four Corners program titled "A Bloody Business" hosted by the loathsome Kerry O'Brien video footage is shown of gross cruelty and incompetence in dealing with the slaughter of cattle at Indonesian abattoirs, where it is said
many thousands of these animals die slow and hideous deaths.
Despite the best efforts of professional Australian slaughter-men to train their benighted Indonesian counterparts on the best ways to deal with animals in the slaughterhouse the video shows that:
Animals smash their heads repeatedly on concrete as they struggle against ropes, take minutes to die in agony after repeated often clumsy cuts to the throat. In some cases there is abject and horrifying cruelty - kicking, hitting, eye-gouging and tail-breaking - as workers try to force the cattle to go into the slaughter boxes installed by the Australian industry, with Australian government support.
RSPCA chief scientist Bidda Jones, who analyzed the video slaughter of 50 cattle, said the slaughtermen took on average 11 slashes at the throat to kill the animals, and even as many as 33. She said:
They basically hack the heads off with blunt knives, causing a lot of distress and pain
The story has caused great controversy in Australia with calls to end all live cattle exports to Indonesia, however as yet at least there is little or no reaction from Indonesian officials.
The graphic and disturbing video can be viewed over here - http://www.abc.net.au/4corners/special_eds/20110530/cattle/.
There appear to have been 11 abattoirs where filming took place, in Jakarta, Bogor, Bandar Lampung and Medan.
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