EcoPiggery
Co-owned by David Wright, President of the Victorian Farmers Federation Pig Council, and Colin Sinclair, owner of the notoriously cruel Benalla slaughterhouse. Pigs from this farrow-to-finish farm are sent to the Benalla slaughterhouse to die in an excruciating carbon dioxide gas chamber.
The farm is filthy and dilapidated, with mother pigs (sows) confined to tiny "mating stall" (i.e. sow stall) cages for up to a week at a time, and then for approximately six weeks at a time in farrowing crates. Additionally, investigators found:
- Sows with painful pressure sores and bruises from lying on hard, slatted floors and from their skin rubbing against metal bars
- Floors and food covered in maggots
- Piglets becoming stuck in the slatted flooring, slowly starving to death
- Piglets eating the bodies of dead kittens, who share the sheds with the pigs, and starting to eat their own mother's infected wounds
- ‘Weaner’ and ‘grower’ pigs with painful, debilitating wounds, including abscesses and prolapses, left in filthy pens with dozens of other pigs
- Buckets full of dead and stillborn piglets, many with obvious signs of predation from cats, rats and other animals
Formerly Camlarni Pty Ltd (deregistered 2020).
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Pig group president David Wright to remain despite ‘substantiated’ complaint
Tuesday 10 Sep 2024 by
VFF pig group president David Wright will remain in his role, despite being sent a letter from Agriculture Victoria asking him to improve animal welfare. Read more >
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Victoria’s pork industry could be slapped with new guidelines and on-the-spot checks
Thursday 20 Jun 2024 by
Victoria’s pork industry could be slapped with “extreme” new guidelines and subject to random on-the-spot compliance checks, but Coalition MPs have called the inquiry process a “political stunt”. Read more >
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CCTV should be mandatory in Victorian piggeries, parliamentary inquiry finds | Rural Australia | The Guardian
Thursday 20 Jun 2024 by
State opposition says the inquiry’s 18 recommendations include ‘extreme restrictions’ that should concern all primary producers Read more >
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Pig welfare inquiry: call to end gas stunning and CCTV on farms
Thursday 20 Jun 2024 by
Animal Justice Party, Green and Victorian Labor MPs have demanded radical animal welfare reforms, as part of a pig welfare inquiry. Read more >
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Farm leader investigated over alleged animal cruelty
Monday 10 Jun 2024 by
The VFF pig group president has stepped aside while alleged animal welfare breaches are investigated, following the release of graphic footage allegedly taken at his northern Victorian piggery. WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE. Read more >
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Inside the piggery of the VFF Pig Council President
Monday 3 Jun 2024 by
During the public hearings for the Victorian inquiry into pig welfare and in the weeks following, the President of the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Pig Council, David Wright, gave evidence painting a picture of idyllic pig farms filled with contented pigs and hardworking farmers, under threat from vindictive, aggressive activists, determined to paint his industry in a bad light. We knew there was more to the story. So we decided to prove it. Read more >
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Pig industry leader accused of cruelty and deception as secret footage released
Tuesday 4 Jun 2024
The piggery of Victorian Farmers Federation Pig Council president David Wright has been targeted by animal advocates who have released new footage showing ‘cruel and sickening’ treatment of pigs on his farm. David Wright gave evidence during the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into pig welfare earlier this year, where he spoke about the high standards he maintains on his farm. Animal advocacy group Farm Transparency Project is now calling out the pig industry leader, publishing footage showing mother sows in narrow cages with painful, infected pressure sores, as well as sows in farrowing crates with over a dozen stillborn piglets. View... Read more >
ABN Lookup
| ABN | 60 162 645 669 (open lookup) |
| Entity name | ECOPIGGERY PTY LTD |
| ABN status | Active from 01 March 2013 |
| Entity type | Australian Private Company |
| Goods & Services Tax (GST) | Registered from 01 March 2013 |
| Main business location | VIC 3672 from 01 March 2013 |
| ABN last updated | 27 March 2013 |
| Extracted from ABR | 23 December 2024 |
