I think I might have mentioned that I rarely watch television news. There’s seldom any good news and if I want to depress myself, I’ll just read a maths textbook instead.
But sometimes it’s on and sometimes a word or two reels me in.
This time the words were ‘local abattoir’ and ‘cruelty’. I put my book down (not maths) and paid attention, but the story was finishing and I didn’t get all the information. So I pulled out my phone and searched. Didn’t take long.
Local abattoir’s management professes ignorance of cruel practices filmed by employee
Shocking footage has emerged of animals being ill-treated as they are led to slaughter in a local abattoir. A YouTube video of the cruelty has been posted and shows sheep being brutally stabbed with an electric stunning device, while others are killed without being stunned properly, in contravention of regulations governing humane treatment of animals in Australia’s processing plants. A management representative said the footage was posted by a disgruntled employee with an axe to grind. He said the company trained its workers in the correct procedures and that the disturbing images demonstrated that ‘rogue’ workers were operating within the establishment. ‘We will root out these bad apples,’ he said. ‘We take the humane care of our animals very seriously.’
I didn’t want to, but I found the video on YouTube and forced myself to watch it. Then I went to the toilet and threw up. Afterwards I did some more research.
I need your help, Andrew, I texted.
Wot 4
Fancy being on the front page of the local newspaper for chaining yourself to a supermarket’s railings to protest animal cruelty?
Sure y not
You say that like I’ve asked you to go skateboarding. Don’t you have any questions?
No k maybe when
What?
When
Sure
You could be arrested and thrown in jail. Gloom, destruction, end of life as we know it. Criminal history. Massive parental disappointment. Just for starters.
Cool
Why ‘cool’?
Satday free not doin anything else
You’re an idiot.
Takes 1 to no 1
That’s ‘know’, idiot.
I no
I hate you.
I no