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. [...]
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.
One of the most common germs leading to diseases of the lung in pigs, is Actinobacillus pleuropneumonie (APP). This germ is widely spread in the world and can mainly be found in countries with intensive pig breeding and fattening. APP is transmitted via air as well as through direct contact. Infection in animals happens by [...]
We visited X15 once again, before he will be killed in three days. His daily routine in the mast is the same as usual: feeding, chinky floor and no possibility to spend time outside.
Even in the snowy, cold winter Jackpot, who by now is seven months old, has a wonderful time! With his 96 kg (his brother X15 will be killed next week with 120 kg and turned into sausage) rollicks outside – and also helps himself with food from the horses once in a while… All other [...]
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 [...]
X15, the feeding pig, whose life we were documenting with photo- and video camera since his birth, soon will reach his 120 kg. This weight is the sentence of death for more than three million of feeding pigs every year. This is, because about 120 kg are the regular slaughtering weight, with which pigs will [...]
If piglets are in freedom, they are 4 months next to their mother. First abroad the group and afterwards in a group, there exists an intimate connection between mother and children. Piglets learn much from their mother and being social. It is not the same if pigs are kept in an intensive holding. Right after [...]
Robert Kresse of pig-vision interviewed Marion Selig, veterinarian and deputy chairwoman of the association Menschen für Tierrechte (MfT) about pig breeding. Robert Kresse: MfT is working on a class action lawsuit in Germany. What exactly is this and how could it help pigs in detail? Marion Selig: In the constitutional state of Germany exists a [...]
In the year 1918 there was a disastrous human influenzal pandemia. At the same time a pig disease with the same symptoms was determined and called „Swine influenza“. Until now this influenza has been discribed on all continents of the world. The first time when the virus H1N1 could be isolated was in the year [...]
