CHENNAI: The cruelties inflicted on cattle continued unabated in the State, said People for Ethical Treatment of Animals (PeTA), a Mumbai-based animal welfare organisation, here on Tuesday.

Addressing presspersons, N.G. Jayasimha, co-ordinator of campaigns and legal affairs, PeTA, said many slaughterhouses in the State were languishing without proper basic requirements, such as water to clean the waste and blood.

"No reforms in place"

Mr. Jayasimha complained that there was no evidence of any reforms taking place in any of the abattoirs in the State as promised by the Council for Leather Export (CLE).

Mr Jayasimha said the CLE claimed that the abattoir in Coimbatore would become a model of animal welfare centre for other slaughterhouses and markets in the State.

However, investigations by the PeTA revealed that cows and goats continued to be killed in groups and not as prescribed by the activists. Similarly, calves below six years too were slaughtered, in violation of mandatory norms, Mr Jayasimha said.

Slaughterhouse shut down

In Tiruchi, the Corporation slaughterhouse had been closed down and now the slaughter was being done by a group of individuals, he charged.

Mr. Jayasimha said: "A few years ago the PeTA started investigating the functioning of slaughter houses in Tamil Nadu. There has been no improvement in any of the abattoirs, which lacked even the basic infrastructure," he added.

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