DISTRESSING footage of poultry workers mistreating turkeys at an processing plant at Inghams Enterprises in Sydney's southwest has been turned over to police.
Sydney vet Dr Mark Simpson said the behaviour shown in the footage, taken from a camera hidden in the plant by Animal Liberation over a period of two weeks and given to the ABC, was among the worst he had seen.
He said CCTV monitoring of the slaughtering of animals should be mandatory to prevent further pain and suffering of animals.
The footage showed workers at the plant kicking birds, stomping on their heads and slamming them up against production line machinery.
Emma Hurst, from Animal Liberation, said the workers showed a complete disconnect from the suffering they were inflicting on the turkeys.
"It is as though these animals are mere objects and that they are there for their enjoyment to torture them," Ms Hurst told the ABC.
She said acts of animal cruelty by the workers were filmed on the secret camera every day and it appeared they went out of their way to intentionally harm the birds.
The ABC showed the footage to Ingham chief executive Kevin McBain who issued a statement saying Australia's biggest poultry producer does not tolerate mistreatment of its livestock.
He said the company condemned the animal abuse seen in the footage and would "review, retrain and reinforce our animal welfare standards throughout the organisation".
He said the company was carrying out its own investigation to resolve "these intolerable incidents".
The ABC said Animal Liberation had passed the footage onto police and welfare authorities.
Greens MP and animal welfare spokesperson Cate Faehrmann says it's up to the NSW Parliament to prevent future acts of cruelty by supporting the Greens' bill for mandatory CCTV in abattoirs.
"This footage is incredibly distressing," Ms Faehrmann said.
"The behaviour of the abattoir workers can be described as nothing less than sadistic. It's time the government acted to ensure that abattoir workers and operators can no longer get away with animal cruelty."
She said mandatory CCTV in abattoirs would put an end to the appalling cruelty shown in the footage.
"The Greens have a bill ready to go that could prevent acts of cruelty like this in the future and we urge the government to support it," she said.
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