News & Media: Local piggeries targeted by animal activists | Shepparton News
Local piggeries targeted by animal activists | Shepparton News
Pig farms in the region have been targeted for investigation by animal rights activists.
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”.
