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!
The ordinary keeping of pigs is not appropriate
The following is a very short summary of the interview I had with professor Johannes Baumgartner. He is an absolute specialist concerning the holding of pigs. Professor Baumgartner is the leader of the working group “pigs” of institution for animal holding and animal protection on the university of veterinary medicine in Vienna. He explains in [...]
We have bits cut off us…
1. We have bits cut off us…teeth…and… 2. Without teeth we can’t injure each other when we lose our minds 3. But, what good it does, I don’t know, because I end up looking like this anyway A comic by Nina Georgiev
The castration without local anesthetics – for animal rights activists purposes
The piglets aged only a few days when they are caught by the pig-breeders. They try to run away but the experienced human hands get them quickly. That they fearfully cry for help doesn’t let them off the hook in the industrial husbandry. One person holds the piglet so that it isn’t able to defend [...]
X15 is castrated without anaesthetic – a “normal” procedure in pig farming
On the morning of 30 June 2009 the piglet X15, whose life we will be accompanying, was castrated without any anaesthetic. Unfortunately this is usual practice. 250.000 piglets are castrated in the EU every day. In almost every case, no anaesthetic is used! The castration causes not only acute, but also chronic pain. This is [...]
