Midland Bacon

• EMAIL: Justice for Olivia - stop Midland Bacon from expanding!

  Midland Bacon is a northern Victorian piggery which has been repeatedly exposed for horrific abuse. It was inside the sheds at Midland where hidden cameras captured day-old piglets having their tails cut off with scissors, and the piggery's manager, Rick O'Reilly, killing unwanted 'runt' piglets by smashing their heads on the concrete floor. It was in these same sheds that Rick O'Reilly's son, Bradley, was caught on camera raping a sow, who was later named Olivia. In January 2026, a planning application notice was published by Campaspe Shire informing the community that Midland Bacon was seeking to expand their operation. Currently,... Act now >

• Council approves farm expansion despite 4,000+ global objections

  Wednesday 8 Apr 2026 by Jemma Jones (Seymour Telegraph)

  A district pig farm has been given approval to expand its infrastructure despite more than 4000 objections. At its March meeting, Campaspe Shire Council determined Midland Bacon at Carag Carag would be allowed to construct two finisher sheds and a new dry sow shed. Read more >

• Bradley O'Reilly: Victorian bacon farmer cleared of accusations he raped a pig

  Wednesday 11 Feb 2026 by Katherine Kraayvanger (PerthNow)

  A Victorian farmer accused of raping a pig has been acquitted after a judge ruled evidence in the case was acquired illegally. Read more >

• Australian farmer accused of sexually assaulting a pig walks free - after 'pants dropping' video emerged online

  Thursday 5 Feb 2026 by Wayne Flower (Daily Mail)

  The son of a pig farmer accused of raping a sow in its pen has been cleared after the police case was tossed out of court.  Read more >

• Animal activists launch campaign opposing proposed expansion to piggery

  Thursday 29 Jan 2026 by Monique Patterson (Stock & Land)

  Animal activist group The Farm Transparency Project has urged people to oppose the expansion of a piggery. Read more >

• Animal activists fight to block expansion of controversial Midland Bacon piggery

  Tuesday 27 Jan 2026 by Conor Fowler (The Weekly Times)

  Animal activists have launched a campaign against plans to expand a Victorian piggery that made headlines for alleged animal cruelty footage uncovered by hidden cameras. Read more >

• Notorious Victorian piggery seeks expansion amidst barrage of complaints

  Friday 23 Jan 2026

  A Victorian piggery accused of bestiality has applied for council approval to expand.  Animal activists have rallied to fight the proposal, citing animal welfare, environmental and public health risks. Notorious Victorian piggery Midland Bacon is seeking approval from the Campaspe Shire Council to expand their piggery, with the goal of building three new sheds on their Carag Carag property. This move has animal activists outraged, leading to a storm of objections lead by advocacy group Farm Transparency Project, who have released footage taken at the facility in 2022 and 2024. Midland Bacon featured in national headlines in 2024, after footage captured during... Read more >

• Protest outside Northern Victoria pig farm where 'sickening' bestiality took place

  Wednesday 20 Mar 2024

  30+ animal activists are protesting outside a Northern Victoria pig farm, after “sickening” bestiality act revealed last week. 30+ animal activists have gathered outside Midland Bacon pig farm in Carag Carag, demanding the release of the sow who last month was captured on camera being raped by a worker, while confined to a farrowing crate. A global petition to free the sow, who activists have named Olivia, has been signed by over 13,000 people. The activists have arrived at the farm with a livestock trailer and are demanding that she be released into the care of an animal sanctuary. The protest has been... Read more >

• Piggery worker caught performing sexual acts on caged pig in ‘sickening’ new footage

  Monday 11 Mar 2024

  Footage captured last month by Farm Transparency Project shows a worker at a Victorian piggery raping a female pig (sow) who is confined in a farrowing crate. The footage, aired exclusively on ABC's 7.30 program, was captured accidentally by the group, who set out to expose routine animal cruelty ahead of the public hearings for the Victorian Parliamentary Inquiry into pig welfare, which begin tomorrow (Tue 12 March) in Melbourne. Investigators who captured the footage have said that they were taken completely by surprise by the sickening act, which they reported to authorities as soon as they could. The group have also... Read more >

• Undercover investigation reveals Victorian pig farms still caging mother pigs, 5 years after industry phase out came into effect

  Wednesday 21 Sep 2022

  Media release by Andy Meddick MP (Animal Justice Party Victoria) - An undercover investigation by Farm Transparency Project has revealed at least six Victorian piggeries are confining mother pigs to small cages, despite an industry phase-out deadline of 2017. Read more >

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