Exact Location: University of Queensland, Gatton Campus
Time: 6AM

In the early hours of Monday November 29th activists from Animal Activism Queensland (AAQ) chained themselves to pens in a Gatton piggery, north of Brisbane.

Police were called by protestors to the farm, located at the University of Queensland's Gatton campus. AAQ has investigated Gatton UQ piggery twice over the last 2 years and both times found major cruelty breaches that were forwarded to the RSPCA and ignored by the regulatory body.

The sit in was made in solidarity with similar actions in South Australia, Victoria, and Western Australia in what has become the largest coordinated animal action raid in Australian History.

It comes at a time when many Australians unwittingly buy into intensively farmed cruelty for Christmas hams, and highlights the cruelty involved in raising intensively farmed pigs, in particular, pregnant sows.

Read the press release at:
http://www.animalactivism.org/resources/online/story.php?pr=70

What Others are Saying

2 Comments Post Comment

1. Re: Sow Stall Sit In
20-05-2006 by Anna
tiger74.wa(AT)hotmail.com

WELL DONE HUMANS..i fully respect each & everyone of you..John Howard should be forced against his will to spend 1 night only in the same sickening condition these babes are only subjected to their whole miserable life...dont give up...im right behind you! thankyou all on behalf of the Animal Kingdom

2. Re: Sow Stall Sit In
31-05-2007 by visitor

As a UQ vet student, I'd like to say none of you have any idea what you're talking about... If you sat in on any pig husbandry lectures you'd know WHY and WHEN sow stalls are used and their benefits. Though you all are fairly amusing, so that's a plus.

PS pigs are delicious

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29-11-2004 Christmas Cruelty

Shot on location at Gatton university (UQ): pigs raised for Christmas dinners are raised in confined barren metal and concrete pens so small they cannot walk or even turn around.

Forced to live in their own faeces, with no stimulation these animals often resort to self mutilation.

In protest, AAQ activists chained themselves to pig pens in this action in November 2004.

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Pigs: bred, raised and slaughtered in intensive farming -- AAQ's piggery investigations uncover routine cruelty and illegal abuse in Queensland.
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