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AMIC rejects call for mandatory CCTV in meat plants

Farm Transparency Project activists in the Benalla abattoir. Source – Farm Transparency Project, Facebook.

A CALL for mandatory video surveillance in meat processing plants has been rejected by peak processor body the Australian Meat Industry Council.

Following an ABC 7.30 Report on legal gas stunning of pigs and a break-in by animal activists at a Benalla abattoir this week, a group of animal rights bodies has called for mandatory closed circuit television or CCTV systems in all Australian abattoirs.

The Australian Alliance for Animals today released its open letter to AMIC and…

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