Farm Transparency Project, an animal rights organisation, released footage from inside five commercial pig farms on Tuesday, January 28.
In its investigation published under ‘Two nights, 20 piggeries, four lives saved’ it explains that dozens of activists “investigated” 20 Victorian pig farms across the January 18-19 weekend.
The activists took photos and video footage from inside the facilities, including capturing images of dead piglets and the inside of farrowing sheds.
Executive director of the activist group Chris Delforce said the Australian pig meat industry was “entirely irredeemable” and the footage reveals the “reality inside every farm that raises pigs for slaughter”.
“For over 10 years, the pig industry has been shown to be one of the largest and most horrific causes of animal suffering in Australia,” he said.
“The time for small improvements has long since past. It needs to be shut down and it needs to be shut down now."
The group claimed to have taken dead piglets from these facilities and laid them outside Premier Jacinta Allan’s office in a protest against what the Farm Transparency Project describes as “the inherent cruelty of the pig meat industry”.
Farm Transparency Project has said it would release footage from 15 more pig farms across the state “in the coming weeks”.
The Free Press has reached out to Agriculture Victoria for comment.
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