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Andgar's mass grave: new footage in horror piggery investigation
Media release: Friday 22 Aug 2025
A large open grave filled with rubbish and dead pigs is amongst new footage captured at four South Australian piggeries owned by Andgar Proprietors or its representatives. The footage has been released one day before SA Pork's 'Industry Day', which is being held on Friday 22nd August at Barossa Park, Lyndoch. Until recently, the committee of SA Pork included Garry Tiss, a co-owner of three of the four piggeries investigated. Video of a 'mass grave' of pigs has been published by Farm Transparency Project (FTP), filmed at Brownlow Piggery, one of four South Australian pig farms owned...
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Director of animal charity Farm Transparency Project raided by police
Media release: Tuesday 12 Aug 2025
The founding director of animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project (FTP), Chris Delforce, has been raided by Victoria Police at his Melbourne home this morning, in relation to footage of animal cruelty captured earlier this year at twenty piggeries in the state's north. Delforce's electronic devices including phones and laptops have been seized. The footage, captured by a large number of anonymous activists and provided to FTP, revealed widespread suffering, neglect, and potential breaches of animal welfare legislation, including: Pigs living in extreme confinement in their own waste, including in "sow stalls" claimed by the industry to...
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Protestors gather outside 'horrific' South Australian piggery to demand its closure
Media release: Saturday 19 Jul 2025
Up to 100 protestors are currently gathered outside Andgar Piggery in Dublin, north of Adelaide The protestors are demanding the closure of the facility, following the release of footage captured by Farm Transparency Project which revealed extreme suffering and neglect at the facility A large protest has formed outside the gates of Andgar Piggery north of Adelaide, following the release of footage earlier this month by animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project (FTP). The footage, captured across two nights in June, showed pigs living in deep pools of their own waste, others with large untreated injuries, and a pile of...
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Pigs left to rot at 'horrifying' South Australian Piggery
Media release: Friday 4 Jul 2025
Animal activists have released footage showing living pigs struggling to escape a pile of the rotting corpses of up to 100 dead pigs inside a South Australian piggery. Pigs are seen living alongside and cannibalising the decomposing bodies of dead pigs, who have been left to rot inside the piggery's sheds. Other footage from the same facility shows pigs drowning in mud and waste in outdoor sheds and others with infected and necrotic wounds. Animal cruelty investigators from Farm Transparency Project have released shocking new images and footage from Dublin Piggery in South Australia. The footage, which was captured across...
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5 more Victorian piggeries exposed by animal activists
Media release: Tuesday 11 Feb 2025
Footage from five more Victorian piggeries has been released by animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project. The footage was taken by unknown investigators who filmed inside 20 piggeries across the weekend of the 18th & 19th January, before anonymously providing video and photos to Farm Transparency Project. The latest footage to be released is from piggeries in Leitchville, Bagshot North, St Arnaud and Tragowel. Animal protection organisation Farm Transparency has published footage from five more Victorian pig slaughterhouses, bringing the total up to 15 facilities exposed since the 21st January. The latest piggeries to be exposed by the group are Hancock...
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Footage from five Victorian piggeries released by activists, 15 more to follow
Media release: Tuesday 28 Jan 2025
Footage from five Victorian piggeries has been released by animal rights organisation Farm Transparency Project, who say that a further 15 will be exposed in the coming weeks. Video taken inside the piggery shows dead and dying piglets, dirty conditions, pigs living in their own waste and sows with large pressure sores, cuts and scratches, evidence of fighting between pigs. The footage was gathered by anonymous, civilian investigators over two nights earlier this month. The investigators then provided the footage, and evidence of the date and location of its capture to Farm Transparency Project to review and publish. Footage from the...
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Shocking conditions uncovered as activists target 20 Victorian piggeries over weekend
Media release: Tuesday 21 Jan 2025
Animal rights campaigners have laid dozens of dead piglets at the offices of Victorian Premier, Jacinta Allan, in a protest against the government's refusal to address "urgent" animal welfare issues. Advocacy group Farm Transparency Project (FTP) organised the protest after receiving footage showing shocking, filthy and cruel conditions at twenty Victorian piggeries, filmed covertly by dozens of activists over the weekend. Further footage and the names of all twenty facilities will be released by FTP in the coming weeks. Animal rights campaigners have gathered outside the ministerial office of Victorian Premier, Jacinta Allan, in a protest against the government's continued...
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“I bribed them all” – Hidden cameras capture damning confession, ongoing cruelty in Wally’s Piggery case
Media release: Monday 16 Nov 2020
Hidden cameras installed at the cattle feedlot operated by former pig farmer Wally Perenc, near Yass NSW, have shone new light on the animal cruelty charges mysteriously withdrawn in 2014 by RSPCA NSW, and bolstered calls for the RSPCA to be stripped of its jurisdiction over farm animal cruelty, as detailed in the NSW Parliament by the Hon Mark Pearson MLC. The new footage, anonymously provided to animal protection organisation Farm Transparency Project (formerly Aussie Farms), depicts adolescent calves bellowing in anguish as their young horns are ripped off without pain relief, not 100 metres from the now defunct piggery made infamous...
