Over 500 pigs are being burnt alive as a fire rages at Andgar Piggery in Dublin, South Australia. 

At 2.05pm, Farm Transparency Project received word from a local resident that a fire had broken out at Dublin Piggery in South Australia. The resident had noticed the blaze while driving past the piggery on Long Plains Road, where he was able to see the blaze and smell "burning pigs."

Current reports indicate that two eco sheds are currently on fire, each holding 250 pigs who are trapped in the flames.

This piggery 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. 

Farm Transparency Project director Harley McDonald-Eckersall says that they are "devastated but unsurprised" by this latest incident.

"What this shows us is that systems to deal with extreme, routine and systemic animal abuse are either entirely ineffective or too slow. This piggery should have been shut down as soon as it became known that pigs were eating each other in the sheds. It should have been shut down when investigators found a pile of corpses in one of its sheds, with living pigs being slowly crushed to death under the weight of dozens of bodies. But it was allowed to continue operating and now we have this horrific situation where hundreds of pigs are dying in agony by being burnt alive. What will it take to shut this place down?"

Farm Transparency Project have investigators heading to the scene of the fire. 

UPDATE: Photos and footage are being uploaded to https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fo/xvp27p5thvpb36uk30a3h/AL7kDXmkU2Gy_OItoZ8QAXI?rlkey=rsxmgz02vndedpvclrhx36vyz&dl=0