Girgarre Piggery
2025:
One of twenty Victorian piggeries investigated over a single weekend in January 2025. Owned by George Weston Foods.
2015:
Girgarre Piggery is believed to be a breeder-only facility, with roughly 3200 sows (as of 2008). Activists visited a number of times over a two year period, finding mother pigs confined in farrowing crates surrounded by numerous dead and dying piglets. When trying to stand or lie down, for many sows the cages are so small that their feeding troughs are in the way, and the floors so slippery that they struggle to keep their footing. Like most other pig farms, the farmers cut the piglets' tails at a young age without pain relief.
While the farm previously had sow stalls, it has in recent years made the switch to group housing.
Footage was handed to the Victorian Department of Environment and Primary Industries (DEPI), who inspected the property but found that it was all just standard Australian pig farming, with no breaches of animal welfare legislation. As a result of this inaction, the footage and photographs were anonymously provided to AussiePigs.com in late 2015 for publication.
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Goulburn Valley piggeries accused of animal cruelty by Farm Transparency Project
Wednesday 29 Jan 2025 by
An animal activist group has released footage from five Victorian piggeries which allegedly show dying piglets and injured sows, as industry representatives fight back against the activists. Read more >
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Piggery invasions by activist group
Wednesday 29 Jan 2025 by
Animal activists have raided five piggeries in northern Victoria and claim they have exposed examples of animal cruelty. Read more >
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Local piggeries targeted by animal activists | Shepparton News
Tuesday 28 Jan 2025 by
Farm Transparency Project, an animal rights organisation, released footage from inside five commercial pig farms on Tuesday, January 28. Read more >
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Seasonal price rises rescue pig farmers
Wednesday 24 Dec 2008 by
PIG farmers able to stick out the tough times of the past two years are now reaping price rises of 50 per cent. Read more >
Media releases by FTP (2)
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Footage from five Victorian piggeries released by activists, 15 more to follow
Tuesday 28 Jan 2025
Footage from five Victorian piggeries has been released by animal rights organisation Farm Transparency Project, who say that a further 15 will be exposed in the coming weeks. Video taken inside the piggery shows dead and dying piglets, dirty conditions, pigs living in their own waste and sows with large pressure sores, cuts and scratches, evidence of fighting between pigs. The footage was gathered by anonymous, civilian investigators over two nights earlier this month. The investigators then provided the footage, and evidence of the date and location of its capture to Farm Transparency Project to review and publish. Footage from the... Read more >
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Shocking conditions uncovered as activists target 20 Victorian piggeries over weekend
Tuesday 21 Jan 2025
Animal rights campaigners have laid dozens of dead piglets at the offices of Victorian Premier, Jacinta Allan, in a protest against the government's refusal to address "urgent" animal welfare issues. Advocacy group Farm Transparency Project (FTP) organised the protest after receiving footage showing shocking, filthy and cruel conditions at twenty Victorian piggeries, filmed covertly by dozens of activists over the weekend. Further footage and the names of all twenty facilities will be released by FTP in the coming weeks. Animal rights campaigners have gathered outside the ministerial office of Victorian Premier, Jacinta Allan, in a protest against the government's continued... Read more >
