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arch 1, Online

Another video recording purportedly showing extreme cruelty in an Indonesian slaughterhouse has raised the anger of many Australians and put pressure on Canberra to end Australia’s US$340 million live-cattle trade with its largest buyer.

Australian Agriculture Minister Joe Ludwig said on Wednesday that Australia would investigate new video images allegedly showing mistreatment at an Indonesian abattoir and could re-impose an export ban on the slaughterhouse if it was proven to have broken animal welfare rules.

Your comments:

It was stated that Indonesia considered importing live cattle from other countries.

It does not solve the problem: cruelty to animals. The Indonesian government should re-educate those abattoir workers. They are not aware that those animals give them an opportunity to earn money for their families and children.

How come they harm their source of income? Indonesians are not and should not be a cruel people — not to other human beings and especially not to helpless cattle through cowardly behavior.