Pig-vision needs your help
As a supporter of our campaign, you’ll already know that a lot of video material has come about over the course of the project. A unique project: The lives of two pigs, of two siblings, which both began in captive animal farming – but which took dramatically different turns later on. Now this material shouldn’t [...]
Life of the pig-vision pigs – a retrospect
The project pig-vision has kept an eye on the lives of two pigs for seven months. They were two brothers who couldn’t have spent their lives more differently. If you don’t know yet what this project actually was going directly about, this story will be able to help you with comprehending. Now then, in this [...]
How we experienced slaughter
An unpleasant coldness and darkness of an early winter morning are awaiting us, when we leave the house. It´s January 28th in 2010 and we are on our way to document X15 and his last path – to the shambles. With a queasy feeling we get into the car and leave. Steamy fog lies over [...]
X15 is dead
X15 is dead. His death was like his short life: brutal, dolorous and comfortless. A spate of emotions comes up, if you see the last pictures of his life – angriness, helplessness and shame about the fact, that everything what happened is accepted as “normal”. That is daily routine in the so called agriculture. It [...]
Pig-vision and X15
Our project has arrived at halftime – four months ago X15 and JACKPOT were born, in three months the live of pigs in our society will be over. This is a good chance to make a review, a view to our motivation starting the project and you, the determiners. The theme is very emotional and [...]
Pig-vision on the Green Day of Animal Protection
On Saturday, the 17th october 2009, the Ottakringer Greens have hold a Day of Animal Protection with the theme pig breeding in Austria. From 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. there was an info-table on the market place. Our short movie about pig-vision was shown here, too. Experts of politics, of animal protection and of praxis [...]
The future of pig-vision is unknown.
With collywobbles we write the following words to our readers. And what we have to say hurts quite a bit. The reason is, that we just compared the sub-ordinate targets of the campaign “pig-vision”, which we intended to reach, with the actual results. The outcome is disillusioning and disappointing: reduced numbers of access and decreasing [...]
Austrian media reports on pig-vision.com
In the last few days we have given two interviews – one for the Kronen newspaper and the other for Hitradio Ö3. The article in the Kronen from 15th August 2009 read as follows: Giant pig on the Linzer Landstraße – Animal campaigners like student Lisa Pfleger (20) from Linz hope that the giant pig [...]
Bad news about YouTube
On Tuesday 11th August 2009 we received an email from YouTube saying that our video showing the castration of piglets without anaesthetic had been deactivated because it didn’t comply with the YouTube community guidelines. We could only find one guideline that could lead to a video being deactivated: Don’t post videos showing bad stuff like [...]
Survey: Decide what X11 should be called
As promised, from today you can take part in the decision about the name for X11. We’ve spoken to the people at the sanctuary and they’ve told us that X11 is very active and alert. Therefore, the following five names have been chosen for the short list. You’ve got until Thursday 12.00 to get your [...]
