Live export worker’s offer to ‘distress sheep’

A live-export worker offered to cut ventilation off for animals in transit to cause further distress, after animal-rights activists sent emails promising to pay them as much as three months’ worth of wages if they provided video footage of cruelty on ships.

The Daily Telegraph reports today that after Animal Australia offered payments, it was forced to strongly discourage ship workers from worsening the conditions of animals in order to take videos of animal cruelty.

One email from a senior employee at Animals Australia told a live-export ship worker he would get “another $1000” donation to a school he was setting up if he could find someone to assist “on any of the vessels doing -Middle East runs.

The Animals Australia employee also sent “key instructions” on what to film, such as “heat stress — this is sheep with their mouths open panting as per this video” or “piles of dead sheep the larger the better — but even a pile of three is worth filming”.

When the worker asked the Animals Australia employee whether he should switch off the exhaust, which provides the sheep with oxygen, to capture footage of sheep in extreme distress, the employee said “under no circumstance must he do this”.

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