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The Guardian - AU
The Guardian - AU
National
Katherine Wilson

Slaughterhouse video taken by ‘extreme’ animal activists amounts to ‘ongoing trespass’, federal court told

Goats in a pen
The Game Meats Company is suing animal advocacy charity Farm Transparency Project over video recorded at a goat abattoir in south-east Victoria. Photograph: skaman306/Getty Images

Closing arguments in a landmark case brought by a Victorian abattoir against an animal advocacy charity were heard at the federal court of Australia on Tuesday.

The Game Meats Company of Australia is suing Farm Transparency Project, seeking to block publication of footage obtained during seven alleged trespasses at the company’s slaughterhouse in Eurobin in north-east Victoria between January and April.

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