02-03-2025
Twisted art installation features live piglets that will starve to death — to shed light on animal cruelty: ‘Sick act of torture'
A new art installation features three live piglets that will starve to death due to lack of food and water.
The provocative exhibition, called 'And Now You Care,' opened on Friday in Copenhagen. Artist Marco Evaristti is hoping the piece will shed light on the cruelty of modern pig production in Denmark, where about 25,000 piglets die daily as a result of poor breeding conditions.
Evaristti, a native of Chile, generated angry responses when he posted about the exhibit, where the pigs are displayed in a cage made of shopping carts, on his Instagram.
As an ethical vegan I am appalled at this sick exhibition,' one commenter wrote.
'This is not the way, go to the slaughterhouses for vigils like the rest of us. Don't participate in cruelty.'
'Please do not starve these pigs,' said a third. 'They do not deserve to die a slow painful death on account of 'making a point.' You are no better than the problem you wish to solve.'
'WHAT A SICK ACT OF TORTURE OF INNOCENT PIGLETS,' someone else added.
Denmark's largest and oldest animal welfare organization, Animal Protection Denmark, expressed mixed feelings about the installation.
'We completely understand the indignation' of the artist, said Birgitte Damm, a spokesperson for the organization. 'But we do not agree that three piglets, three individual living beings, should be starved and prevented from drinking until they die from it. It is illegal and it is abuse of the animals.'
Although she disagreed with the way Evaristti went about advocating for the animals, Damm did say he was correct in posing 'the large questions about who we are as human beings or want to be, and what we are doing to fellow creatures in the name of enormous amounts of mass-produced cheap meat.'
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