Live export: perseverance and progress
This year marked the 10-year anniversary of an ABC Four Corners exposé that is credited with fundamentally changing the way we relate to animals.
That Four Corners episode, ‘A Bloody Business’, revealed the shocking results of our first-ever live export investigation in Indonesia, the images – of Australian cattle in slaughterhouses – which are forever etched into our national psyche. One such image, of a beautiful black steer – Tommy – who stood trembling as he watched his pen mates slaughtered around him, opened countless hearts.
Jo-Anne McArthur / We Animals Media
For many people, coming face to face with Tommy was the first insight they’d ever had into the experience of animals raised and killed for food – their fear, and their clear desire not to be harmed.
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