FED:Workers paid to abuse cattle, Lib senator

AAP General News (Australia)
08-10-2011
FED:Workers paid to abuse cattle, Lib senator

Senator Back said the incident happened at the Mabar abattoir in Sumatra.

A "very reliable source" who visited the abattoir some days later had told him that
a "white lady and a bule (white male foreigner) and a driver came to the abattoir".

"The cameraman and the driver came to him and offered him (the abattoir worker) 150,000
rupiah to kick the animal in the head repeatedly until they got the film they wanted,"

the senator told the hearing.

"He did not want to do this for religious reasons but his family needed money, so he did.

"He kicked it a number of times and then stopped. They asked him to keep going and he did."

Ms White rejected the allegation, describing it as "very offensive".

"Not only did I not have any knowledge or association, I don't believe it's correct,
senator," she said.

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