I 'Bloody-Well' Knew It..! Indonesian Slaughtermen Paid to Abuse Cattle, sparking BAN
Claims emerge that Indonesian slaughtermen were paid to abuse cattle, sparking ban
This image of a cow being killed in an Indonesian abattoir helped prompt a suspension of exports.
QUESTIONS have been raised about footage which sparked a cattle export ban, with claims Indonesian abattoir workers were paid to mistreat animals.
A Senate committee was today told a taxi driver allegedly paid Indonesian slaughterhouse workers 150,000 rupiah - about $17- to abuse cattle while their ill-treatment was filmed by Animals Australia.
West Australian Liberal senator Chris Back said he had heard of the claim from an Australian meat industry consultant in Indonesia and he had no reason to doubt it.
Animals Australia's footage of inhumane treatment of cattle in Indonesian slaughterhouses sparked a temporary ban on live cattle exports after it was aired on the ABC's Four Corners program.
Animals Australia's Lyn White told the Senate's rural affairs committee that she had no knowledge of the alleged payments.
Outside the committee, Senator Back said he took Ms White at her word, and suggested Indonesian animal welfare activists could have been involved.
He said he would take advice from the committee about calling the British cameraman who had shot the footage.
Senator Back said he had been told the Indonesian slaughterman who allegedly accepted the money was beaten and his wife raped.
“What I am advised ... is that the man who was paid 150,000 rupiah, which is about eight days salary, that that person has since been turned on by his co-workers and that has been the retribution,” he told reporters.
Senator Back said he had not taken the claims to the police.
“It is a matter for Indonesia at this moment,” he said.
“It is also a matter for the Senate and this is the proper place for me to actually raise that point.”
The claims emerged as the first Australian cattle to be sent to Indonesia since the ban on live trade was lifted began being loaded on to a ship in Darwin.
About 3000 head of Elders cattle, held in yards since the federal government announced the ban in June, will leave East Arm Wharf this afternoon.
It will take four or five days for the cattle to get to the Port of Panjang on the Island of Sumatra in western Indonesia, where they will be taken to feedlots for fattening before slaughter in several months time.
Elders has been able to provide the federal government with supply chain assurance because it owns the feedlots and abattoirs in Indonesia that process their cattle.
Since the ban was lifted in early July, only Elders and Austrex have been granted export permits under the new regulatory framework.
Luke Bowen from the Northern Territory Cattlemen's Association said the industry needed to stay focused on animal welfare.
“Today we see the very first, early, tentative steps towards the recovery of this trade,” he told reporters at the wharf.
“It is a long road we have ahead of us - it is not a matter of months, it is a matter of years.”
http://www.theaustralian.com.au/nati...-1226112297561
PS - I always thought there was something SUSPECT in the ABC 4 Corners Cattle Abuse Documentary that led to the Australian Govt. Banning Live-Cattle-Exports to Indonesia..!
This Psy-Op goes a Hell-of-a-Lot DEEPER than the Animals Australia's concern for animal welfare!!!
Damage already DONE..!
Yet another Labor LIE in line with their Globalist Agenda to bring Australia to its knees before the ultimate collapse of the World-Wide Economy!
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