Cruel blow: A frame grab from a video showing a cow about to be slaughtered by a sledgehammer in an abattoir in Vietnam. — AFP
SYDNEY: Australian officials said images of livestock shipped to Vietnam being killed with sledgehammers were “disgusting” but insisted there will be no knee-jerk reaction to ban the lucrative trade.
Activist group Animals Australia has lodged a complaint with the Australian agriculture department about the brutal slaughter after obtaining footage it said showed cattle having their skulls repeatedly smashed at a Vietnamese abattoir.
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