00:00 We got here at 8.30 this morning.
00:09 You want to be prepared just in case trucks come through early.
00:13 They normally slaughter throughout the morning here, so all morning there's been sheep being
00:18 killed in the pens behind us here.
00:22 The trucks may come through after 1pm so they can replenish the pens and start again tomorrow
00:27 morning but at this stage we're not entirely sure.
00:30 If they hold off the trucks because we're here then that will cause disruption to their
00:36 schedule which costs money so then that's a win on our part.
00:43 And if the trucks do come through and we are able to stop them for just two minutes or
00:47 so then we can tell the stories of the individual animals on there and really connect the TQM
00:53 story as it is with the community on an individual level.
00:58 So the public response has been really heartening, seeing the public really get behind expressing
01:04 their disgust and dismay over what happened here which was beyond standard slaughter procedure,
01:09 it was egregious cruelty.
01:13 The government response has been what the government response always is, they always
01:16 promise that they'll establish this and that and something else and it never actually goes
01:20 anywhere.
01:21 So we'll wait and see what happens on a more legislative level but by coming out here today
01:27 we're reminding the community of what happened here at TQM and what we are continuing to
01:33 fight against.
01:34 Back then, 2016, and we saw workers beating sheep and calves and it's not being done properly,
01:42 just pretty awful treatment and we put in a formal complaint at the time and we heard
01:47 very similar things to what we're hearing now, that there was going to be action taken,
01:50 that they were being investigated and nothing came of it, no charges were laid.
01:54 There is clearly systemic cruelty here, it's cruelty that the management of this slaughterhouse
02:00 would have been fully aware of, should have been fully aware of at the very least.
02:04 They've got cameras all over the place, everywhere we put in our hidden cameras there were already
02:09 the slaughterhouse's cameras pointing in those same areas so everything we captured the slaughterhouse
02:13 should have known about.
02:14 Oh look, TAS Farmers think it's a bit disappointing that there's a protest out there at the moment.
02:22 All that's going to do is affect the workers and the workers' families and the suppliers.
02:26 We don't think that's particularly helpful.
02:28 I mean at the moment the animal rights people identified a problem in our abattoirs, TAS
02:35 Farmers and the community agree that shouldn't be happening, it's abhorrent, we just won't
02:40 support that type of treatment.
02:42 The government very quickly set up a task force, that was done within the week, the
02:47 chair's been appointed to that, they've met twice, they're reporting back in March, I
02:51 mean this is lightning fast.
02:53 So TAS Farmers support the government in doing that and we think that the mature thing to
03:00 do is to wait until that report comes out from that group and then the whole community,
03:05 including the animal rights people and the farmers and everybody else can have input
03:09 into it.
03:10 So TAS Farmers has come out very, very early, well before Christmas and we said that we
03:13 want practical, measurable solutions and that's all to do with about changing the culture,
03:18 it's about having new equipment and machinery in there, it's about having training that's
03:22 appropriate and applicable.
03:24 We've called for CCTV footage with 12 months worth of data being kept that can be looked
03:31 and we want snap audits.
03:32 They're the types of things that will change what's happening in these abattoirs.
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