The pig-vision campaign, supported, amongst others by Pamela Anderson, wants to show you what life is typically like for pigs in intensive farming by introducing you to two piglets. Why? Campaigners for animals are always claiming that pigs are treated so badly. On the other hand, the industry claims that conditions are acceptable and meet [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. 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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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! Check out more pictures on the flickr-Album.
In contrast to X15, who had to die because people want to eat him, Jackpot is allowed to live on in the animal shelter of Schabenreith. Watch an up-to-date video of lucky Jackpot.
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.
