Category Archives: Factory Farming

Honks

She came from this egg farm. She was featherless, emaciated and so very angry. She’d lived in that place for nearly 18 months. That night, I took her and three of her friends home. Two months later, this entire shed was sent to slaughter at only 18 months old. They were denied of food for…

Sophia

As we wandered through the free range egg farm, we saw many things. Injured chickens, sick chickens and then we saw Sophia trapped under a grate. Who knows how long she’d been there. This particular farm is seen as one of the best free range farms in Australia. Stuck and unable to move, unable to…

Joan Of Arc. A Free Range Life.

Joan died one chilly, grey Saturday in June. Named after Joan of Arc, she was rescued from a free range egg farm on the foggy Friday night before. She was rescued from a free range farm who has the reputation of being one of the best free range farms in Australia. Joan spent her entire…

Bobby Bob Bob

Bobby Bob Bob was taken out of the tiny battery cage that she shared with five other hens and put into a car on her way to a new life in March 2014. Bobby was chosen to be rescued because of her extremely strange looking neck and face and she was obviously the most bullied…

A Pig’s Life

This is my series depicting the lives of factory farmed pigs. When you walk through the supermarket and see the ham, the pork and the bacon remember that they come from places like this where these intelligent, sentient beings suffer terribly. Pig factory farms are places where motherhood is denied. Sows are placed in small,…