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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
The Life
We don’t only want to show what a pig’s life is like 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. [...]
