At 12.30pm on January 30th, 2015 I received a phone call. The caller was upset, she said “This place is disgusting Tam. There’s swarms of flies everywhere. There’s pig skeletons. It’s horrific”. I hung up with a heavy heart with images of intensive piggeries I’d visited in the past in my mind. Ten minutes later…
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,…
Pigs are smart, social, playful and intelligent animals. They are smarter than your average dog and also smarter than a three year old child. Despite this, in Australia, 6 million pigs are killed for their flesh each year. The images of pigs in the slideshow below were taken at various farms, children’s farms and animal…