Previous Tab
Next Tab

The Birth

Pig-Vision will be following the life of a pig in a typical intensive pig farm. This will, of course, include the birth; our camera team will be there to film as life begins for a small group of pigs. What is the birth like? And how does a sow actually become pregnant? To find out [...]

Learn More
Birth

The Castration

A topic often criticised by animal advocates, and for good reason, is castration: piglets are castrated when they are just a few days old. Their testes are removed from their body without any anaesthetic. This cruel method is standard practice around the world, and the law allows it. In the EU alone around 250,000 piglets [...]

Learn More
Castration

The weaning

Piglets spend the first few weeks of their lives with their mother, but she is kept in a so called farrowing crate. This is a kind of cage which is just big enough for her to take a few paces backwards and forwards and turning around is practically impossible. She is unable to mother her [...]

Learn More
Weaning

The rearing

The longest part of a pig’s life consists of eating and growing. The modern intensive pig farm offers nothing more for these highly sensitive creatures. What do pigs do for months on end, locked up in sheds often living over their own excrement, with a far better developed sense of smell than our own? We’ll [...]

Learn More
Rearing

The Slaughter

A pig normally lives for around 10 years, if he or she is allowed to. But the meat industry doesn’t have this much time. Piglets must grow as much as possible within the shortest amount of time. In 7 months a piglet must be fattened to a 110 kg pig. For X 15, the pig [...]

Learn More
Slaughter

The Life

We don’t only want to show what a pig’s life is like in an intensive farm. We want to take one of these piglets and bring him to a sanctuary where he can run free with a herd of pigs breathing fresh air and allowed to live as long as pigs naturally live. This is [...]

Learn More
Life

Interview with the butcher who killed X15

Last Thursday X15, the pig we accompanied video-taping, was killed. In Austria this happens more than 20.000 times per day, in Germany more than 200.000 times and worldwide it happens the incredible number of 5 million times PER DAY! We were interested in what the particular person feels and thinks by slaughtering and how somebody [...]

Learn More

Interview with “Menschen für Tierrechte” (People for Animal Rights)

Robert Kresse of pig-vision interviewed Marion Selig, veterinarian and deputy chairwoman of the association Menschen für Tierrechte (MfT) about pig breeding.

Learn More

Runout into freedom and lower stocking rates

We demonstrate the life of two pigs. Furthermore we give facts and therefore we have spoken another time with a scientist. Dr. Werner Hagmüller works in the Institut für Biologische Landwirtschaft und Biodiversität der Nutztiere of LFZ Raumberg-Gumpenstein and deals with problems of animal health in biological factories. His special field is the “pig” and [...]

Learn More

Here „slaughter“, there „cruel murder“

Today Bernhard Vock, Congressman of parliament and speaker of animal protection of FPÖ, will speak out on the holding of pigs in Austria, on problems concerning animal protection. Furthermore he gives reasons for calling the pig-slaughter en masse in Egypt “cruel murder”. DISCLAIMER: PIG-VISION is a controversial project. We want to show consumers the dimension [...]

Learn More