EcoPiggery

Co-owned by David Wright, President of the Victorian Farmers Federation Pig Council, and Colin Sinclair, owner of the notoriously cruel Benalla slaughterhouse. Pigs from this farrow-to-finish farm are sent to the Benalla slaughterhouse to die in an excruciating carbon dioxide gas chamber. 

The farm is filthy and dilapidated, with mother pigs (sows) confined to tiny "mating stall" (i.e. sow stall) cages for up to a week at a time, and then for approximately six weeks at a time in farrowing crates. Additionally, investigators found:

• Sows with painful pressure sores and bruises from lying on hard, slatted floors and from their skin rubbing against metal bars
• Floors and food covered in maggots
• Piglets becoming stuck in the slatted flooring, slowly starving to death
• Piglets eating the bodies of dead kittens, who share the sheds with the pigs, and starting to eat their own mother's infected wounds
• ‘Weaner’ and ‘grower’ pigs with painful, debilitating wounds, including abscesses and prolapses, left in filthy pens with dozens of other pigs
• Buckets full of dead and stillborn piglets, many with obvious signs of predation from cats, rats and other animals

Formerly Camlarni Pty Ltd (deregistered 2020).