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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
Slaughtering of X15
The pictures on this video are neither nice nor enjoyable. It´s the slaughtering of a pig. A hundred percent legal – a hundred percent „usual“. Every day numberless pigs worldwide are killed in this way or even more cruel ways. The video is about a pig called X15; this pig was accompanied and his life [...]
Slaughter of X15 – seen from the standpoint of industrial utilisation of animals
It happened last thursday. X15, like his brothers, sisters and other conspecifics, was slaughtered. X15 was transported separately to reduce stress while beging transported. There was also straw to provide some relief for X15; it was the first time in his life, that he felt straw. When he arrived at the slaughterhouse, he was physically [...]
X15′s last walk
The last walk of X15 is the walk to the shambles. Trained hands kill and fragment, what used to be his body. And all this only because humans like to eat meat. Habit? Necessity? Or still changeabe? It’s up to you!
From mast into the truck
Before pigs can be transported and slaughtered afterwards, they have to be chased from the cove, where they have been fattened, to the truck. In this manner it was necessary to „assist“ X15 too.
Twitter-record on the death of X15
We documented the killing of the feeding pig X15 with cameras; at the same time we tried to communicate an overall impression of the happenings via Twitter. Here we provide the sent messages once again: 06:49 am In a moment we´ll leave to accompany X15 with cameras on his last path. We´ll keep you updated. [...]
X15 gets killed!
Today in the course of the morning, X15 will be killed. You have the possibility to witness everything realtime, because we will report on twitter (you can read it there also without being registered) and facebook promptly. Pictures and the video of the end of X15 we will provide you tomorrow.
X15 is determined to death
As soon as X15 has gained 120 kg, his end is determined. As a fattened pig he will be killed, because he has reached the so-called „slaughter weight“, defined by meat industrie. It will be made sausage, ham and schnitzel out of him. From now on for each kilogramm, X15 gains more, the farmer had [...]
