Animal Rights Activist Bribery

No end to the cow carnage controversy with allegations against devious, bribing animal rights activists.

WoW!  Like stories of PKS skulduggery, the cattle story just won't go away.  Allegations of payments to mistreat the animals for effect and good (?) publicity, rape and general criminality are gaining a significant hearing in both the Australian Senate and the press.  The DRUM has it on good authority that the Senate inquiry has also heard some very interesting allegations of involving very senior people in the PKS who control the frozen meat trade. Of course, allegations of PKS and actual videos of the playing hide the sausage have been amusing us for weeks.   It will be interesting to see how much comes out as the inquiry continues.  In the meantime here is the complete article from today's Australian Newspaper.

 

"QUESTIONS have been raised about footage which sparked a cattle export ban, with claims Indonesian abattoir workers were paid to mistreat animals.

A Senate committee was today told a taxi driver allegedly paid Indonesian slaughterhouse workers 150,000 rupiah - about $17- to abuse cattle while their ill-treatment was filmed by Animals Australia.

West Australian Liberal senator Chris Back said he had heard of the claim from an Australian meat industry consultant in Indonesia and he had no reason to doubt it.

Animals Australia's footage of inhumane treatment of cattle in Indonesian slaughterhouses sparked a temporary ban on live cattle exports after it was aired on the ABC's Four Corners program.

Animals Australia's Lyn White told the Senate's rural affairs committee that she had no knowledge of the alleged payments.

Outside the committee, Senator Back said he took Ms White at her word, and suggested Indonesian animal welfare activists could have been involved.

He said he would take advice from the committee about calling the British cameraman who had shot the footage.

Senator Back said he had been told the Indonesian slaughterman who allegedly accepted the money was beaten and his wife raped.

“What I am advised ... is that the man who was paid 150,000 rupiah, which is about eight days salary, that that person has since been turned on by his co-workers and that has been the retribution,” he told reporters.

Senator Back said he had not taken the claims to the police.

“It is a matter for Indonesia at this moment,” he said.

“It is also a matter for the Senate and this is the proper place for me to actually raise that point.”

 

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