About 400 employees at Fletcher International Exports are feeling the brunt of WA’s worst sheep shortage in 50 years, with the Narrikup abattoir cutting back shifts and staff working hours. Picture by ...

An abattoir has been fined almost £7,000 for breaching EU regulations about the welfare of animals before they’re killed after leaving a number of sheep “severely dehydrated” due to lack of drinking ...

Halal abattoir staff slammed sheep hard onto concrete floors and played recordings of wolves to the terrified animals as they were dying, footage reveals. In a string of acts captured by hidden ...

Meat processors are confident they can find markets to accommodate more sheep meat products from Western Australia when the federal government’s ban on live exports comes into effect in 2028. “On the ...

An Orkney farmer is part-funding her own abattoir so her rare breed Boreray sheep no longer have to be taken on a seven-hour trip to the mainland for slaughter. The islands have been without a ...