The announcement comes as Animals Australia, the group that uncovered the cruelty to Australian cattle in Indonesian
abattoirs last year, launches a campaign against the factory farming of animals.
Not exact matches
Exports
last year the industry group put at $ 670 million in beef and $ 240 million in sheep meat would get a boost from the addition of 15 beef
abattoirs to the list of permitted exporters and the establishment of new protocols around the slaughter of Australian sheep and goats, it said.
It comes after shocking revelations that almost 2,500 Australian sheep died from heat stress on board a ship bound for the Middle East
last August, and animals being mistreated in a Qatari
abattoir.
The terrible treatment at this
abattoir is not the first, nor will it be the
last time that calves will be thrown, dragged and abused.