We strongly believe that the disturbing Booyong Abattoir is a blight on Byron Shire.
The health and wellbeing of the local Booyong community should be paramount.
The abattoir is clearly not sustainable: not environmentally, culturally nor ethically.
The vibrant Booyong community with many precious and unique attributes includes the beautiful Booyong Nature Reserve, an irreplaceable remnant of the Big Scrub rainforest. This is an ecologically sensitive place and waterway, a mere 600 metres from the abattoir.
Unbelievable. Shocking.
It is totally unacceptable that the local Booyong community and Byron Shire suffer the deeply unhealthy menace and terrible noise of triple-decker large transport trucks, with screaming and distressed pigs, barrelling down from SE Queensland – every day and every night for 365 days per year. The abattoir kills more than 260,000 pigs per year.
We cannot imagine what living adjacent to this facility would be like.
As long-time Byron residents, we witnessed the horror and painful lived experience that the abattoir operation imposes on residents, who are bearing the burden of this animal factory.
The current Booyong Abattoir DA requests Council approve expanding its operation, truck movements and killing capacity. The abattoir must be shut down rather than expanded.
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