Kangaroo #slaughter companies are finally being brought to heel for their inhumane treatment of #Australia's iconic wildlife, by American states #banning product imports. #Europe is also discussing a ban across the entire zone.

The "highly #regulated" industry finds it completely okay to take a tiny joey and #kill it by #smashing it against a truck.

Sadly, so do our #governments. All of them. In fact there are no checks and controls on #slaughterers. They work alone in the dark with no supervision ever.

#Kangaroos killed for human consumption and pet food are shot in the bush and can be #unrefrigerated from 4pm one day until 7am the next. Temperatures at night can stay at over 30 degrees Celsius.

The #shooters start their nights buying a case of beer. They drink all night and drive around paddocks, then to a processing plant, up to 150km away in our area, along highways used by #human #families.

At foot joeys that escape are left to starve to death. In pouch joeys are killed as described above.

Single #shot kills are rare. An animal that hasn't been killed by a single shot is often #butchered in the field, still alive.. The joeys can hear that happening. A single shot is what is required under the code of #practice governing their behaviour.

https://www.abc.net.au/news/rural/2023-02-09/us-states-try-to-ban-kangaroo-products-false-information/101906532

Every week within a 100km distance of where I sleep 500 joeys like Gunggari are pulled out of their mothers pouches and smashed to death on the back or wheel of a shooter's vehicle.

Their mother is often still #alive as she is #butchered. If the joey escapes, he or she will starved to death over a week to 10 days.

A #drone will find the #shooter's active area and I walk along #fences often with the shooting still happening, looking for the escapees.

When I find them I put them in a pouch and keep walking. A backpack will hold 4 stuffed on top of one another.

This is Australia's shame. Our government tells us without any evidence that there are 50 million kangaroos.

#Tourists can travel for 18,000km and not see any in the outback as #farmers struggle to slaughter all of them to prevent them competing with their bred for #slaughter stock.

#Nike spend hundreds of thousands of dollars promoting K leather, but don't tell you what it is or how it is sourced in what is accepted as the single most inhumane slaughter of any animal on the planet.

This slaughter is worse than the #Canadian #harp seal slaughter for its inhumane methods. Remember the note about smashed skulls? That's how the Australian government says it can be done to a joey under 5kg.

There is no requirement for these scab shooters to report how many joeys they kill. Some estimates from October to February put the number around one third of the entire slaughter. In my area where there are 10,000 animals slaughtered per week, that means over 3,000 joeys are killed and not reported.

To enable my work to continue, paying for feed, fuel, equipment for night searches including heat seeking goggles, transport of animals to carers up to 500 km away I have started a #GoFundMe to raise funds.

If you can help, please help. I can't do this all on my own.

#KangaroosOfMastodon
https://gofund.me/b3f006c4

Yikes! This got #butchered by #compression 🧐