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