Sow stalls: News Coverage

#1. Tuesday 8 Nov 2022 by Wendy Crouch (Yahoo News)

A group of animal activists who stormed a Coles supermarket in Melbourne on Sunday afternoon to protest the manner pigs are farmed in the country has sparked a debate over their use of graphic imagery to get their message across.

#2. Monday 7 Nov 2022 by (3AW)

Animal Justice Party candidate Chris Delforce joined vegan activists protesting the sale of pig products at the Coles supermarket on Spencer street on Saturday. The protestors went to the meat aisle, wearing TVs on their chest, and showed vision of a pig farm which they say supply the supermarket giant....

#3. Sunday 6 Nov 2022 by By Levi Parsons For Daily Mail Australia (Daily Mail)

Angry vegans storm the meat aisle of Coles blocking off customers from buying pork and declaring that all animal product should be ILLEGAL.

#4. Sunday 6 Nov 2022 by Milica Cosic (Mirror)

The Farm Transparency Project leader has called for a complete ban on the sow stalls, saying the "suffering and violence" is "inherent to modern animal farming" and is still used by many Australian farmers

#5. Sunday 6 Nov 2022 by Mitch Clarke (Herald Sun)

Animal activists have stormed a Coles in Melbourne’s CBD to protest in the meat aisle over the plight of caged pigs.

#6. Wednesday 21 Sep 2022 by Jane McNaughton (ABC News)

Animal activists have accused several Victorian piggeries of using sow stalls for extended periods, despite the pork industry pledging to voluntarily phase out the practice by 2017.

#7. Wednesday 21 Sep 2022 by Calla Wahlquist (The Guardian)

Pigs in Victoria are still being held in narrow pens that are not wide enough for the animals to turn around, despite an industry promise to stop using them five years ago, according to the Animal Justice party.