It begins with a sow locked in a dark shed, looking out at the activist in a stall where she can not turn around. She has been there all her life. She is one of thousands trapped inside Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia. Bunge is the largest piggery in Australia and the southern hemisphere torturing over 230,000 pigs at any given time.
Activists as individuals and from organisations around the country chain themselves to the suffering pigs during a protest inside Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
A scene from The Grower Shed. Pigs are crammed into these sheds prior to slaughter. Their ears have been mutilated for identification purposes.
Two activists feed a rescued piglet from Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
'Is Anybody Out There?' Sows trapped in tiny stalls will regularly try to escape by positioning themselves in this way. However, their legs get quickly tired and they fall back down into the stall. The noise inside the dark sheds is deafening as each sow pops up once and then falls back down inside her tiny stall, to be lost forever amongst the thousands of others.
Activists Mark Pearson and Richard Jones make contact with a sow trapped in her tiny stall during a protest inside Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
'Tomorrow's bacon.' This is a pig in The Grower Shed at Bunge piggery prior to slaughter. The ears of this pig have been mutilated (notched) for identification purposes.
This is The Farrowing Shed. After giving birth, sows live in these cramped conditions, unable to even turn around.
Richard Jones MP, a member of the New South Wales Legislative Council rescues a baby piglet during a protest inside Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
A sow trapped in a farrowing pen inside Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
A piglet has escaped into an aisle inside Australia's largest piggery, Bunge, in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
This sow is displaying stereotype behaviour called 'bar biting' during which she will continuously suck backwards and forwards along the bar of the stall. Bar biting is the result of extreme psychological stress suffered by pigs under these conditions. Many of the pigs trapped inside Bunge piggery were displaying similar behaviours, such as bar biting.
These piglets were rescued by activists from Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales Australia. Many of the rescued piglets were sick or suffering from injuries, and had to be euthansaed after being examined by a vet.
A view from inside one of the open sheds at Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia, The bars and concerete stand in stark comparison with the sunshine, fresh air, green grass and muddy dams enjoyed by the rescued pigs. Pigs are by nature burrowing animals who enjoy the company of other pigs and like plenty of space.
A mother sow and her piglets in a Farrowing Shed. She will never see them grow up and can not even turn around to aid them if they get into trouble behind her.
The remains of piglets left to rot for two weeks, amongst urine and effluent. This a familiar sight at intensive piggeries like Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
Activists Mark Pearson, Fiona Rees and Traccii Wearne stand at the fence line of Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia. They are recording the screams that can be heard at Bunge's on site slaughterhouse. Bunge slaughters 7,000 pigs a week so that some Australians can eat their flesh. The terrified pigs do not go to their deaths quietly
An Australian activist tries to comfort a poor sow during a protest inside Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia. It is very hard for the activist who may have been chained to sows for hours, looking into their sad and worried eyes, to then leave them behind in that place, knowing that they will suffer and die there.
Dead piglets, plastic gloves and pieces of pig corpse, 'common factory farm pollution' and a tragic waste of life, left in a bin outside at Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
An activist rescues an injured piglet from Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia. The piglets are taken to the vet for an examination and the ones who survive spend the rest of their lives living at a sanctuary.
The sows spend their lives in these cramped stalls in dark sheds where they cannot even turn around. The live in a world of bars and concrete, often standing in their own urine and excrement. After being still born, piglets than can not be reached by their mothers are left to rot, covered in maggots.
This is a sow pictured in a 'Dry Sow Stall.' Sows spend months at a time in these barren cages, unable to even turn around.
Fiona Rees and Tracii Wearne listen to the screaming of pigs being brutally slaughtered at Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia. The slaughtering begins at 6.00am every morning at the on site slaughterhouse. Bunge piggery slaughters 7,000 pigs a week. Fiona said, 'the trucks come in and the screaming starts and then suddenly there is this big silence, and you know they are all dead. Then the next truck comes in and the horrible screaming starts again.
This little piglet is being lifted out of the pen by an activist rescuer. Upon entering a shed of an intensive piggery, activists will search for sick, lame, injured and dying piglets. These are the ones that will be rescued first.
The 'cull' (kill) is written on this pigs back in pink spray paint. She is lame in the back legs. There are many pigs in Bunge piggery suffering from lameness of the back legs. They have to drag their bodies along the concrete and are often beaten by workers because they don't walk fast enough. Sows develop lameness through muscle fatigue by being forced to stand on the hard surface for long periods at a time, and not being able to move.
All this sow and others like her are able to do is stand up or lay down on hard concrete in dark sheds for all of their lives. She is bored, depressed and suffers stress. She cannot turn around. She can do nothing but go slowly mad, developing sterotype behaviours such as bar-biting and head swaying.
The rescued piglets from Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia are gently put into warm blankets by animal rights activists.
These pigs are in 'The Grower Shed' at Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales Australia.
They are crammed into these pens prior to slaughter at Bunge's on site slaughterhouse.
Activists look down at this tiny dead piglet, found on the floor of 'The Farrowing Shed' in Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia. Dead piglets are a common site at intensive piggeries. There are no vets in attendance and no inspections are required. The piglets are left to die if they get into trouble and cannot be reached by their mothers who are trapped in the stalls, unable to turn around.
Dead piglets inside The Farrowing Shed at Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia. Sows are forced to give birth in tiny concrete stalls where they cant even turn around. The mother sow cannot reach her piglets and must give birth where she stands. This photo is the end result of such cruelty.
An activist takes some photos of sows trapped in stalls at Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia, during a protest. Activists take cameras inside the sheds during protests, investigations and rescues, in order to gain evidence of animal cruelty. Such evidence is used in parliament, in the courts and to educate the general public on the tremendous suffering of Australian pigs.
This little piglet is lucky enough to be rescued by a caring activist from its fate inside Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia. Unfortunately, too many have to be left behind.
Activists MP Richard Jones and Mark Pearson, President of Animal Liberation NSW, chained to the pig stalls, during a national protest inside Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
Australian activists rescuing a piglet from the horrific conditions at Bunge (Australia's largest piggery, containing over 230,00 pigs) during a protest, at Corowa, New South Wales, Australia.
Many sows like this one continue to suffer and be brutally slaughtered at Bunge piggery in Corowa, New South Wales and other piggeries right across Australia. Please help us to help pigs like her. Get Pork Off Your Fork and Go Vegetarian now!
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