Midland Bacon

Thursday 25 Apr 2024 by Farm Transparency Project (editorial)

The latest on what we know about the whereabouts of Olivia, the sow who was sexually assaulted by a worker at a Victorian piggery. Read more >

Saturday 6 Apr 2024 by Emma Håkansson (editorial)

A few weeks ago, as a survivor of child sexual abuse I launched a call for reform to the Working With Children Check, designed to prevent further abuse. That part of my week was very public.  Quietly at home, I was addressing another form of sexual abuse. I watched whistleblower footage of a mother pig being raped by a farmer. My animal advocate friends had been reviewing their hidden camera footage, intended to capture legal cruelty to pigs, and they had found this instead.  Read more >

Wednesday 20 Mar 2024 by McPherson Media Group (Shepparton News)

Thirty animal activists converged on a piggery near Stanhope demanding the release of a pig which a piggery worker allegedly [raped]. Read more >

Wednesday 20 Mar 2024 by Oscar Jaeger (Herald Sun)

Animal activists have vowed they will not give up until Olivia, the sow who was allegedly raped by a piggery worker, is safely secured. Read more >

Friday 15 Mar 2024 by Trinity Sparke (One Green Planet)

A disturbing revelation has emerged from a northern Victorian piggery, sending shockwaves through the agricultural community. Read more >

Wednesday 13 Mar 2024 by Oscar Jaeger (Herald Sun)

The man accused of performing a vile act on an innocent sow at a local piggery is the son of the manager of the stockyard, who has been “worried” about animal activists. Read more >

Tuesday 12 Mar 2024 by Bec Symons (ABC News)

Politicians who stayed for the footage from a Stanhope piggery, including the alleged bestiality of a pig by a worker, watched on in shock as it was played to them at the parliamentary Inquiry into Pig Welfare in Victoria. Read more >

Tuesday 12 Mar 2024 by Nathan Schmidt and Blair Jackson (The Australian)

A man has been charged with bestiality offences after he was allegedly caught on video by animal activists committing a vile sex act at a pig farm. Read more >

Tuesday 12 Mar 2024 by McPherson Media Group (Shepparton News)

A man has been filmed on hidden camera allegedly performing a sexual act on an animal at a piggery near Stanhope. Read more >

Tuesday 12 Mar 2024 by AAP Newswire (Shepparton News)

Agricultural exemptions to animal protection laws are leading to cruelty in Victorian pig processing facilities, a parliamentary inquiry has been told. Read more >

Tuesday 12 Mar 2024 by Rachel Simmonds (Stock & Land)

A pig abattoir worker in central Victoria is facing bestiality charges after being arrested by Victoria Police. Read more >

Tuesday 12 Mar 2024 by Shannon Twomey (The Weekly Times)

Animal activist groups have called for an end to commercial pig farming at a state government inquiry into pig welfare in Victoria. Read more >

Tuesday 12 Mar 2024 by NCA NewsWire (Yahoo News)

A man has been arrested after police allege a vile act was caught on video at a rural pig farm. Read more >

Tuesday 12 Mar 2024 by Nathan Schmidt (News.com.au)

A man has been charged with bestiality offences after he was allegedly caught on video by animal activists committing a vile sex act at a pig farm. Read more >

Tuesday 12 Mar 2024 by Padraig Collins (Daily Mail)

Animal rights activists who broke into a piggery and installed hidden cameras to record alleged incidents of animal cruelty, found more than they bargained for when the checked the footage. Read more >

Monday 11 Mar 2024 by Rhiana Whitson (ABC 7.30)

New allegations of animal cruelty at a Victorian piggery have emerged on the eve of a state parliamentary inquiry into the welfare of farmed pigs. Vision captured inside the piggery has led to calls for a complete overhaul in the way we treat pigs raised for food. Rhiana Whitson reports. Read more >

Monday 11 Mar 2024 by Rhiana Whitson (ABC News)

Secret recordings show the legal but inhumane way piglets are killed in Victoria but also lead to a man being charged with bestiality. Read more >

Wednesday 21 Sep 2022 by Jane McNaughton (ABC News)

Animal activists have accused several Victorian piggeries of using sow stalls for extended periods, despite the pork industry pledging to voluntarily phase out the practice by 2017. Read more >

Wednesday 21 Sep 2022 by Calla Wahlquist (The Guardian)

Pigs in Victoria are still being held in narrow pens that are not wide enough for the animals to turn around, despite an industry promise to stop using them five years ago, according to the Animal Justice party. Read more >

Wednesday 20 Mar 2024

30+ animal activists are protesting outside a Northern Victoria pig farm, after “sickening” bestiality act revealed last week. 30+ animal activists have gathered outside Midland Bacon pig farm in Carag Carag, demanding the release of the sow who last month was captured on camera being raped by a worker, while confined to a farrowing crate. A global petition to free the sow, who activists have named Olivia, has been signed by over 13,000 people. The activists have arrived at the farm with a livestock trailer and are demanding that she be released into the care of an animal sanctuary. The protest has been... Read more >

Monday 11 Mar 2024

Footage captured last month by Farm Transparency Project shows a worker at a Victorian piggery raping a female pig (sow) who is confined in a farrowing crate. The footage, aired exclusively on ABC's 7.30 program, was captured accidentally by the group, who set out to expose routine animal cruelty ahead of the public hearings for the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into pig welfare, which begin tomorrow (Tue 12 March) in Melbourne. Investigators who captured the footage have said that they were taken completely by surprise by the sickening act, which they reported to authorities as soon as they could. The group have also... Read more >

Wednesday 21 Sep 2022

Media release by Andy Meddick MP (Animal Justice Party Victoria) - An undercover investigation by Farm Transparency Project has revealed at least six Victorian piggeries are confining mother pigs to small cages, despite an industry phase-out deadline of 2017. Read more >