One Wednesday in August at dusk, me and a friend were driving home from catching up when we found ourselves behind a truck full of ex-battery hens headed for slaughter. This is not something I had ever seen, nor had she, so the only thing to do was follow this truck and follow we did. […]
Category Archives: Abattoir
Bronte
Bronte used to live at a commercial caged egg farm in northern Victoria. The farmer got rid of all his hens, most likely due to closing down his business or due to early depopulation (these girls were a lot younger than the usual 18 month olds that get sent to slaughter), and sent all of […]
Animal Transport
They call it “livestock transport”, when what it really is is as many animals pushed on to a truck as possible with no care about the weather conditions or the duration. 2 degrees or over 40 degrees, animals bred for food are still forced on to trucks and made to endure long trips to abattoirs […]
Her Desperate Plea For Help
Her desperate plea for help. There she stood, in that bare paddock at the back of the abattoir. She had no food. She was starving. She hadn’t been milked for some time and her udder was full and painful. As soon as she saw us, she mustered up all the strength she had left and […]
The Abattoir
My new series, “The Abattoir”. A work in progress which will portray animals in their final hours and minutes before they are slaughtered. Animals are herded off transport trucks by dogs and aggressive, loud men. Terrified, they run into the pens where they await their deaths. They are killed for human consumption, animal by-products and […]