Wally's Piggery in court

MightyJoe said :

Yep, my dad got many a pig from this place…

Now, don’t get me wrong but how is a humane way of killing a pig that’s going to be eaten? take it for a meal first and then a bullet to the brain?

You people do realise that in order for you to eat meat, you need to kill an animal first?

Or, maybe we should all start eating soylent green….

Pitchka said :

Was a regular at this piggery… Good quality pigs, very lean, very little fat…

I better grab a 25kg pig before he shuts shop…

We’re talking about the treatment of the pigs while they are alive.

Which in this case was horrendous.

Judging from the levels of hygiene on display in the video, if nothing else, I wouldn’t be too smug about buying meat from them.

As for the cruelty, it was clearly not confined to the process of slaughter, with piglets being contemptuously kicked and thrown across the piggery. God knows how many animals were unnecessarily injured in that place.

Swift slaughter might be considered an necessary evil, but the unwarranted abuse of the animals up to that point is indefensible. Slaughter with the unsuccessful aid of a sledgehammer (in the video it was a couple of strikes on an unrestrained animal, and the animal is still conscious when they cut its throat) is also indefensible. There is nothing humane or professional about that.

Postalgeek said :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3xwGiB4gs

In case you’re wondering what the fuss is about.

I really shouldn’t have watched that. They have created a little hell out there. Inexcusable.

Jethro said :

Pigs are more intelligent than dogs.

Yes, a ham sandwich is a much smarter idea than a Hot Dog.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n_3xwGiB4gs

In case you’re wondering what the fuss is about.

I agree with:

BimboGeek ‘Electro stun and then single blow. Even bolt stunning is cruel and often ineffective.
If you truly must.’

How can you kill a pig for human consummation without being cruel?

Electro stun and then single blow. Even bolt stunning is cruel and often ineffective.

If you truly must.

Pigs are more intelligent than dogs.

If anyone got treating a dog in the way pigs are factory farmed in Australia there would be an uproar and calls for the person to be thrown in jail. Yet as a society we allow it to be done wholesale to pigs, which ave as much self awareness and personality as dogs.

when you have an industry as fundamentally inhumane as the factory pig farming system it should come as no surprise that people working within the system will take it upon themselves to further mistreat the animals, such as in the case of the workers at this piggery.

Look I believe that nothing in life should be killed with malice. If this guy was doing it to gain enjoyment or prolonging the killing etc for gratification, then bash a few fingers with his own sledgehammer i say that’ll fix him quick smart.

Ghettosmurf87 said :

Fair enough Mighty Joe,

I’m no authority on killing methods/butchery, so I’ll defer to you there.

As you say, the animal still needs to be killed, but I don’t think there’s any excuse for doing it in a nastier, crueler way than absolutely necessary.

Nor is there an excuse for making the animals lives, while no doubt short and hardly free, any more torturous than necessary.

Fair enough Mighty Joe,

I’m no authority on killing methods/butchery, so I’ll defer to you there.

As you say, the animal still needs to be killed, but I don’t think there’s any excuse for doing it in a nastier, crueler way than absolutely necessary.

Nor is there an excuse for making the animals lives, while no doubt short and hardly free, any more torturous than necessary.

Pitchka said :

Ghettosmurf87 said :

MightyJoe said :

Yep, my dad got many a pig from this place…
Now, don’t get me wrong but how is a humane way of killing a pig that’s going to be eaten? take it for a meal first and then a bullet to the brain?
You people do realise that in order for you to eat meat, you need to kill an animal first?
Or, maybe we should all start eating soylent green….

Not a hard concept here….

You kill it in the quickest, most pain-free way that is readily available. If that’s a bullet to the head or slitting it’s throat, then so be it.

I don’t know about you, but I’m doubtful that bashing a pig over the head with a sledgehammer is likely to be either the quickest or most pain-free method. A pigs head isn’t exactly small, so the likelihood of killing the pig instantly, first blow, is probably not high.

High success, instant kill methods are probably the preference.

Correct me if I’m wrong anyone?

Having witnessed many a pig get killed by getting their throats slit, i assure you it is not the quickest, and i dare say, nor is it a painless process, based on the ear wrenching squeals that follow…

Agreed..

i’ve seen my father in law slit, shoot and bash (overseas of course). the bash seemed the quickest way.

realistically, there is no humane way of killing an animal… your still killing it..

As I said before, to all you humane animal slaughter critics, the answer for you is Soylent green.

On another note, its quite a challenge to shot a pig smack bang in the middle of the head (brain) in order to kill it instantly, slightly off target, and you have yourself a hell of a problem.

Back in the days when my ol man worked in the former Oak Estate abattoir, they used giant electrodes that knocked the animal out cold, then they would proceed to kill the animal with whatever methods they used at the time…