EcoPiggery

Thursday 16 Oct 2025 by Farm Transparency Project (FTP) (editorial)

At Australian Pork Limited's Annual General Meeting in October, 2025, Farm Transparency Project presented inaugural awards for Outstanding Cruelty to Pigs. While we know that every pig farmer/slaughterer in Australia works tirelessly in this space, our judges had to narrow the field to just four - not an easy task! Congratulations to the well-deserved winners.  In fourth place: Midland Bacon in Carag Carag, Victoria! For obvious reasons (#FreeOlivia), but also for defiantly maintaining their enormous sow stall shed while APL's pretending they don't exist anymore, and for the routine killing of piglets by slamming their heads onto the concrete... Read more >

Tuesday 10 Sep 2024 by Alexandra Laskie (The Weekly Times)

VFF pig group president David Wright will remain in his role, despite being sent a letter from Agriculture Victoria asking him to improve animal welfare. Read more >

Thursday 20 Jun 2024 by Mitch Clarke (Herald Sun)

Victoria’s pork industry could be slapped with “extreme” new guidelines and subject to random on-the-spot compliance checks, but Coalition MPs have called the inquiry process a “political stunt”. Read more >

Thursday 20 Jun 2024 by AAP (The Guardian)

State opposition says the inquiry’s 18 recommendations include ‘extreme restrictions’ that should concern all primary producers Read more >

Thursday 20 Jun 2024 by Peter Hunt (The Weekly Times)

Animal Justice Party, Green and Victorian Labor MPs have demanded radical animal welfare reforms, as part of a pig welfare inquiry. Read more >

Monday 10 Jun 2024 by Alexandra Laskie (The Weekly Times)

The VFF pig group president has stepped aside while alleged animal welfare breaches are investigated, following the release of graphic footage allegedly taken at his northern Victorian piggery. WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGE. Read more >

Monday 3 Jun 2024 by Harley McDonald-Eckersall (editorial)

During the public hearings for the Victorian inquiry into pig welfare and in the weeks following, the President of the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Pig Council, David Wright, gave evidence painting a picture of idyllic pig farms filled with contented pigs and hardworking farmers, under threat from vindictive, aggressive activists, determined to paint his industry in a bad light. We knew there was more to the story. So we decided to prove it. Read more >