Animals Behind Closed Doors exists to promote a vegan lifestyle and believes live export - where animals are shipped overseas - is especially rife with cruelty.“They’re systemic; it’s not just about a couple of individuals throwing calves around the place and pulling their tails and hitting them with sticks.
“Gerry is saying that every bull calf that’s born in the country doesn’t have a purpose in this country,” Mr Drennan said.Mr Drennan said he was shocked by what he witnessed in the documentary and there should be “full enforcement” of animal welfare rules. “It’s certainly not something that we would condone and we’d be absolutely calling on the Department of Agriculture to investigate this immediately and make sure it doesn’t happen again.”Mr Drennan said there should be “immediate action” to prevent it happening again and the footage is not representative of the industry as a whole.