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 [...]
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 [...]
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!
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 [...]
Weaning news
Again we visited X15 during the weaning. As you can see he already has grown quite a bit. More pictures you can find in the associated album on Flickr. Connect with our account on Flickr and find out first if there are new pictures online. Become a contact in the network of pig-vision.
Interview with PETA about keeping of pigs
In this interview the scientific consultant of the animal rights group PETA, Dr. Edmund Haferbeck, informs us about his concerns of keeping of pigs. We spoke about the keeping of mother animals, about the postnatal clipping and the separation of farrows from their mother.
Naturally…
Our campaign is already being supported by a big number of people. Thank you to all of them! Nina Georgiev is one of our supporters and as a cartoonist has sent us this comic strip for pig-vision: 1. Naturally…we are peaceful creatures 2. Not locked up 3. And naturally….people don’t eat meat Become a part [...]
