An animal rights activist who installed secret cameras inside a pig farm which caught a man raping a pig has been charged by police with trespassing and breaching biosecurity measures. The activist from the Farm Transparency Project installed secret cameras to capture what they described as systemic violence and exploitation inherent to the pig meat industry. The footage showed piglets having teeth removed with pliers and a worker slamming piglets against the concrete floor. The hidden cameras also captured a man performing a sexual act on a pig. The animal rights group handed the video over to the police for prosecution. The man is yet to be sentenced for his crime. The founder of the group, Chris Delforce, admitted to the authorities the video was filmed illegally, further stating: 'We think the treatment of animals should be the bigger crime than jumping a fence'.
OSCAR JAEGER: An animal-rights activist who allegedly installed secret cameras inside a central Victorian piggery which allegedly caught a man raping a pig (Sow 8416) has been charged by police. Farm Transparency Project activist Siena Callender has been charged with trespassing, breaching biosecurity measures and installing an optical surveillance device into the Midland Bacon piggery at Carag Carag. A Victoria Police spokeswoman confirmed that a 31-year-old St Kilda woman was charged by Echuca detectives following an incident in Carag Carag on February 11, 2024… Her abuser is yet to be sentenced for his crime
According to its website, Ms Callender, who has been a senior investigator for Farm Transparency Project since 2023, aims to “expose both farms and slaughterhouses, to bring to light the stories of those animals we deliberately silence, and act in solidarity with them in their fight for liberation by amplifying their voices and making their stories heard”. SOURCE…
NATHAN SCHMIDT: Activists from the Farm Transparency Project installed secret cameras at Midland Bacon in Victoria to capture what they described as “legal industry practices”. The CCTV cameras captured a man performing a sexual act on a pig at the Stanhope farm on February 11, 2024.
Police arrested 30-year-old Carag Carag man Bradley O’Reilly shortly before midday on March 3 following a report of bestiality. “Officers were told a man had performed a sexual act on an animal at a property on Robertson Road about 2.15am,” police said. “The man has been charged with bestiality. He was bailed to appear at the Echuca Magistrates’ Court on June 11″…
Farm Transparency Project strategy and campaigns director Harley McDonald-Eckersall confirmed the footage was handed over to police by the group. Separate to the matter before the court, Ms McDonald-Eckersall said her group wanted to expose the general mistreatment of animals in the pork industry.
McDonald-Eckersall said there was an urgent need to address the culture of systemic violence and exploitation which was inherent to the Victorian pig meat industry. “Many people have informed us that our footage of pigs dying in gas chambers has caused them to stop eating pig products entirely. The only way to fix this industry is to end it”…
Ms McDonald-Eckersall and the founder of the covert-footage-acquiring group, Chris Delforce, appeared before the parliamentary committee hearing into farm pig welfare on Tuesday. The illegally filmed footage showed piglets having teeth removed with pliers, a man slamming piglets against the concrete floor. No charges have been laid in relation to this aspect of the footage.
Mr Delforce told MPs the clip, and other footage from his group, was filmed illegally. “We think the treatment of animals should be the bigger crime than jumping a fence,” he said. Farm Transparency Project wanted the pork, lamb, chicken and beef industries phased out, replaced with plant and cell-based agriculture…
Staff of Australian Alliance for Animals, which says it represents two million people under the umbrella of six different member organisations, also presented to the MPs on Tuesday. Alliance co-founder Bidda Jones said a majority of the public believed farmed animals were sentient and could “experience pain and pleasure”. SOURCE…
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