Animal rights activists have again called upon the organisers of the controversial Dark MOFO event 150.Action to cancel the slaughter of the bull, in light of a recent investigation into a Tasmanian abattoir.
Tasmanian Quality Meats at Cressy was last week the subject of an exposé aired across national media, with footage released showing workers subjecting week old dairy calves to acts of egregious animal cruelty.
The footage had been provided to the Department of Primary Industries in December 2016. However the department only initiated an investigation following the exposé last week.
“This investigation has not simply uncovered animal cruelty at an abattoir. It has also highlighted the systemic failures of the DPI in adequately monitoring activities within Tasmanian slaughterhouses. This is the second investigation of its kind in the past six m onths, following a similar exposé into Gretna meatworks just last year. Given the inaction of the DPI in both cases, it is impossible for organisers of 150.Action to assert that the bull intended for slaughter will not suffer unduly in a Tasmanian abattoir.” -Kristy Alger, Animal Liberation Tasmania
“It should be remembered that Tasmanian Quality Meats at Cressy had CCTV cameras installed by the business owner. Yet even this was no deterrent to staff members, nor do they appear to have been closely monitored by the business owner himself.” – Mehr Gupta, Animal Liberation Tasmania.
ALT state that in the current circumstances it would be negligent of the organisers to put an animal through the Tasmanian slaughter system purely for an art event, given their assertions that the animal would be killed humanely and under Australian standards, if indeed the bull in question is still alive.
Kristy Alger, Mehr Gupta
