Hundreds of pigs burned alive at Dublin Piggery - Time to SHUT IT DOWN
At 2.05pm Monday 15th September, Farm Transparency Project got an email from a local resident of Dublin, South Australia. While driving along Long Plains Road, he had seen fire coming from Andgar Piggery and CFS vehicles parked in the driveway. Winding down his windows, he could smell burning pigs. We instantly jumped into action, alerting the media and organising for two investigators to go to the scene with a drone to document what they could.
Later, the owner of the piggery Garry Tiss confirmed to ABC News that Two eco sheds were on fire, each holding roughly 250 pigs who were trapped in the flames. We have since learnt that witnesses saw the fire at around 10.40am that morning, but CFS were not called until 11.32am.
This is the same piggery that is currently under investigation by the RSPCA after investigators from Farm Transparency Project documented extreme cruelty inside the sheds, including a pile of corpses with living pigs still trapped inside, cannibalism and pigs with necrotic wounds. In July, the RSPCA conducted two raids, issuing 21 animal welfare notices and euthanising 14 pigs. Andgar Proprietors owns three more piggeries across South Australia including Brownlow Piggery where, last month, investigators filmed a mass grave where pigs had been dumped alongside rubbish.
In 2020, 1300 pigs were killed in another fire at Andgar's flagship piggery, Finniss Park in Mannum.
How many more pigs have to suffer die before Dublin Piggery is shut down for good?
