This terrified pig is being bashed by by an iron bar. The pig is screaming on his way to slaughter. He is about to have his throat cut. Animals in slaughterhouses smell the blood of the others who are being murdered in front of them. There is blood on the killer's forearms and blood on the pig's back from where he is being bashed. What kind of people support these atrocities?
The kind face of the unwanted cow. She is starving in the holding yards before being slaughtered. Cows such as this one are left to stand for days in their own piss and shit, with little to no food and water, whilst the slaughterhouse machinery is in full operation close by. A visit to these kind of places and the eyes that follow you out as you leave, is not something that one can easily forget.
Understandably, the animal-killing industry has a high turn over of labourers, however slaugherhouse workers often become desensitised to animals in this kind of environment. This worker is joking around whilst holding the leg of a muiltated cow. The head of the cow is still hanging from the body by a sinew of flesh. He is working on the killing house floor. It is his job to remove it.
Dead and dying cows twitch in their own blood on the killing house floor of Wollondilly slaughterhouse in New South Wales, Australia. These two cows have been shot in the head with a rifle or a captive bolt pistol. The aim of fire practised by slaughterhouse workers is often inaccurate and animals are left to die slowly. The mutilation or 'butchering' process can begin whilst they are still alive.
The bloody head of a decapitated cow hangs on a hook at Wollondilly slaughterhouse, Tahmoor, New South Wales, Australia.
Pigs on a rack about to be cut up by slaughterhouse workers. Often pigs are put into a 'scolding' tank and a machine known as a 'pig-basher' to make the removal of their skin and the buchering process easier.
Dead and dying cows twitch in their own blood on the killing house floor of Wollondilly slaughterhouse in New South Wales, Australia. These two cows have been shot in the head with either a rifle or a captive bolt pistol.
These terrified pigs struggle and squeal on the killing ramp at Wollondilly slaughterhouse on their way to the killing box. Pigs are highly sensitive and intelligent animals. Many will try to jump the barrier as they hear the screams and smell the blood of the other pigs being slaughtered just metres away.
A slaughtehouse worker saws through the body of a mutilated bull on a hook. We call this a civilised society. But it doesn't take much to look behind the scenes in any slaughterhouse in Australia and see the truth behind the meat, poultry and dairy industry. Think of the animals in these photographs, the next time you are politely seated at the dinner table and take a moment to consider the terror and agony that lies behind the 'civilised' meal.
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