Wally's Piggery (closed)
The piggery was found to be in breach of many state laws; additionally, the farm was in complete filth and disrepair, with many piglets and sows (mother pigs) suffering injuries or death due to beatings by employees, the crumbling structure, and a high prevalence of disease. The practices used by the employees, such as cutting the tails and teeth of all piglets without the use of anaesthetic, are accepted by the industry and are standard across Australia. The process is often carried out ineffectively, leaving painful and bloody stumps, and tails were found in the stalls. The equipment, including needles for iron injection, are not cleaned or sterilised between uses.
Sows showed signs of distress and malnourishment including chewing on the metal bars of their tiny stalls in which they are unable to turn around (and some, due to their size and injuries, have difficulty standing up). Dead piglets had been left in the stalls with their mothers for so long they had started to decompose.
The owner kills pigs in the on-site slaughter room by beating them multiple times with a sledgehammer (no captive bolt or stun gun was used, nor were any found on the property), or shooting the larger pigs, then hacking at their throats, and leaving to casually talk to his employees while the pigs slowly die from blood loss. Some take upwards of six minutes from the first hit before they stop screaming and thrashing. Meanwhile, the employees who assist with the post-death process of hoisting the pig into a tank of scalding water, removing hair with a blowtorch, cutting off the head with a knife, shackling and butchering the body are seen drinking beers on the job as early as 7:20am.
Following a day of slaughter, the pigs' remains are left in a wheelbarrow (with excess piled onto the ground) for days on end, where they were seen being eaten by other pigs and the diseased and malnourished stray cats living on the property.
This is not a "rogue operator". This is Australian pig farming - and it's where your bacon, pork and ham comes from.
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Political stink over 'suffering' cattle at NSW farm
Sunday 15 Nov 2020 by
A NSW farmer who was the subject of an aborted RSPCA prosecution for animal cruelty at his former piggery is now running a cattle farm on the same property and stands accused of "even more egregious infliction of suffering". Read more >
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NSW Minister for Primary Industries and RSPCA chief challenged to public debate over decision to drop Wally’s Piggery charges
Tuesday 16 Dec 2014 by
The RSPCA and the NSW Government must publicly explain why charges were dropped against the owner of a southern NSW piggery, despite overwhelming evidence of abject animal cruelty, animal rights group Aussie Farms said today. Read more >
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War of words after piggery case collapses
Sunday 30 Nov 2014 by
RHETORICAL warfare has broken out between key players in the high profile case against Wally's Piggery, after cruelty charges were dropped in the Yass Local Court last week. Read more >
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New laws to 'gag' animal activists
Wednesday 26 Nov 2014 by
Activists and animal rights groups are frustrated by the discussion of Australia introducing ‘ag-gag’ laws similar to the US, saying they will help farmers get away with animal cruelty. Read more >
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Chris Delforce wants answers from RSPCA
Wednesday 26 Nov 2014 by
Animal Rights activist and website designer of aussiepigs.com, Chris Delforce, originally published the Animal Liberation ACT and NSW video footage from inside Wally’s Piggery. Read more >
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Animal law in the spotlight: Wally's Piggery charges dropped
Wednesday 26 Nov 2014 by
Last week, RSPCA NSW dropped all animal cruelty charges against Wally's Piggery, a factory farm located just outside Canberra. The high profile case was dismissed from Yass Local Court after both the prosecutor, RSPCA NSW, and lawyers acting for Wally's Piggery Read more >
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Fingers pointed after piggery case crumbles
Friday 21 Nov 2014 by
Animal Liberation NSW has refused to take the blame for the RSPCA's decision to drop its case against Wally's Piggery. Read more >
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Animal cruelty charges dropped against now defunct Wally's Piggery
Friday 21 Nov 2014 by
Animal cruelty charges against the now defunct Wally's Piggery at Murrumbateman have been dropped. In October, Valent (Wally) Perenc, 64, Stephanie Perenc, 58, and their financial backer WSL Investments Pty Ltd, pleaded not guilty to a total of 53 charges Read more >
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Unclear why serious animal cruelty charges dropped against operators of Wally's Piggery
Thursday 20 Nov 2014 by
The ADO is extremely disappointed to learn that the serious animal cruelty charges laid against the managers of Wally's Piggery have been dropped and the case against them dismissed in the Yass Local Court on Monday 17 November 2014. Read more >
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Wally's Piggery cruelty charges dropped
Thursday 20 Nov 2014 by
ANIMAL cruelty charges in the high profile NSW case against Wally's Piggery have been dismissed, with prosecution hindered due to unlawfully obtained video footage. Read more >
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'Sneaking' in ag laws
Tuesday 22 Jul 2014 by
Australian lawmakers and livestock industry groups are trying to disguise "ag-gag" laws to assist their introduction in Australia, says animal rights activist Chris Delforce. Read more >
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Animal Activists Shut Down Two Piggeries and Expose Animal Abuse on Another Owned by a Peak Pig Industry Leader
Thursday 13 Jun 2013 by
This week the campaign by Animal Liberation ACT and NSW to expose the realities of Australian pig farming achieved another victory when the closure of two piggeries was confirmed. Read more >
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Activists return to Wally's Piggery
Tuesday 13 Nov 2012 by
A few days ago, activists returned to Wally's Piggery. For the moment, the farrowing sheds are empty - there are no sows or piglets on site. Read more >
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Statement from Desmond Sibraa, Barrister and former meat inspector for the Federal and NSW governments
Monday 27 Aug 2012 by
The Meat Industry Authority, that had its functions transferred to the NSW Food Authority, paid attention to Wally's Pig Farm [in around 1984]. An inspector attended the premises to investigate a complaint that Valenti [Wally] Perenc was slaughtering... Read more >
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Wally was tipped off the day before the investigation
Saturday 4 Aug 2012 by
During the investigation yesterday by the police, the RSPCA, the Animal Welfare League and the Food Authority, Wally admitted that he had been sent the longer 42 minute cut of footage the day before, giving him enough time to prepare. Read more >
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Animal Liberation Undercover Investigation Leads to Raid on Wally's Piggery by police, animal welfare inspectors, and the NSW Food Authority
Friday 3 Aug 2012 by
Shocking evidence of brutal animal abuse and horrific slaughter exposes pig industry's hidden crimes. Read more >
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Website launched
Friday 3 Aug 2012 by
Website for the 'Australian Pig Farming: Inside Story' campaign was launched, after footage and photographs were obtained from within Wally's Piggery NSW. Read more >
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“I bribed them all” – Hidden cameras capture damning confession, ongoing cruelty in Wally’s Piggery case
Monday 16 Nov 2020
Hidden cameras installed at the cattle feedlot operated by former pig farmer Wally Perenc, near Yass NSW, have shone new light on the animal cruelty charges mysteriously withdrawn in 2014 by RSPCA NSW, and bolstered calls for the RSPCA to be stripped of its jurisdiction over farm animal cruelty, as detailed in the NSW Parliament by the Hon Mark Pearson MLC. The new footage, anonymously provided to animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project (formerly Aussie Farms), depicts adolescent calves bellowing in anguish as their young horns are ripped off without pain relief, not 100 metres from the now defunct piggery made infamous... Read more >
