Abattoirs make 0.1 per cent of Vic cruelty complaints

Standard practices have gone unchallenged for decades, an inquiry into pig welfare has been told. (HANDOUT/ANIMAL LIBERATION)

Cruelty to abattoir pigs makes up a skerrick of Victorian livestock welfare complaints, but some standard practices have gone unchallenged for decades, an inquiry has heard.

Roughly 0.1 per cent of the 8000 animal welfare complaints to Agriculture Victoria since 2018 related to pigs in abattoirs, while almost seven times that amount related to pigs on farms.