AP- Piglets will be left to starve in a controversial art exhibit in Denmark - "something is rotten in the state of Denmark"

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By VANESSA GERA
Updated 1:20 PM EST, February 28, 2025


An artist in Denmark aims to raise awareness of the suffering caused by modern pig production with an art installation that opened Friday that includes three piglets who will be denied food and water and will starve to death.

Chilean-born Marco Evaristti is courting controversy to make a point about the treatment of pigs in Denmark, where about 25,000 piglets die daily as a result of the conditions in which they are bred.
The central exhibit at Copenhagen’s “And Now You Care” exhibition is a makeshift cage created with shopping carts containing three piglets. As the exhibition opened Friday evening, they were still fine, but they will not be given food and drink, and can be expected to die of hunger within a few days.
Evaristti says on his Instagram page that the exhibition “is a confrontation with Denmark’s bloody reality” in slaughterhouses, and that he urges people to reduce their meat consumption and support agriculture that improves animal welfare.

Denmark’s largest and oldest animal welfare organization, Animal Protection Denmark, says it is grateful for Evaristti’s interest in the problem, but disagrees with how he wants to convey it.


“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.”


“The fact that happens to thousands each day in the industry doesn’t make it right,” she said. But she also praised the artist for asking “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.”

Damm explained that sows are bred in the Danish pig industry to produce about 20 piglets at a time, but only have 14 teats, forcing the piglets to compete for breastmilk, and leading to the starvation of many. She said some 25,000 piglets die every day from starvation or the result of the conditions in which they are held in Denmark.

It’s not Evaristti’s first controversial project.

One of his projects included goldfish in blenders, tempting viewers to press the button and create goldfish soup.

In 2006 he used some of his own body fat removed via liposuction to prepare meatballs, and then ate some of them.

He described that project called “Polpette Al Grasso Di Marco” as a critique on people overconsuming and then buying their way to slimness with liposuction, and at the same time an attempt to transcend the taboo of cannibalism.
 
We don’t and have not for many years, bought danish bacon. They used stall and tether and had a reputation for quite unpleasant conditions. I don’t know if they are still like that because we avoid all danish bacon products. Only local.
We should be eating bacon, it’s delicious, but we do need to make sure the pigs are kept in reasonable conditions during their lives and killed humanely.
The ‘artist’ should be prosecuted for animal cruelty.
 
Good that the senseless death porn for "art" was stopped, but they should be going after the "art" people that approved of and were going to host the exhibit. If not arresting them, then at least boycotting their galleries, businesses, etc. They should be persona non grata. Instead you know they'll sit on various boards, go to galas, and keep making money.
 
Ironic that he, as a jew, would choose a pig to slaughter. Pigs, in the UK at least, are the last animals to be spared the inhumane slaughter of halal preparation of food.
If anyone cares about animals, halal would be banned immediately.
 
Why, oh why, when I hear about degenerate art and/or animal torture, I'm compelled to do an Early Life check?
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Even when the name doesn't trip the sensor, the behavior does.
 
Grew up on a farm, we raised pigs. Always liked looking at the baby pigs. Don't believe what they say about Danish pigs producing 20 pigs per litter. In 23 the average was 15.6 pigs per litter. Taking that into account don't see how you would lose 25,000 piglets a day. Denmark is a small country.



Having said that, we drew lots for the mission. Milton, please warm up the helicopter, you're flying left seat. Check ride for you, I'm check pilot. Janet, please fly right seat. Anita and Ken, please assist Mike, the crew chief, after the rest of us have completed the special processing.
Not related to the article, but what the hell kind of crazy life did you lead man?

The more I run into you on the farms the more questions just pop up. God speed you magnificent kiwi.
 
Why, oh why, when I hear about degenerate art and/or animal torture, I'm compelled to do an Early Life check?
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Even when the name doesn't trip the sensor, the behavior does.
I'm going to guess him being raised Catholic means his mother is a Catholic convert or he was raised by a single father. It's crazy he decided to allow himself to develop a weid complex over it though, Jewish ancestry is not exactly an 'unusual' thing.
 
"This is part of an educational system teaching biology in schools. If this offends you in any way, you really need to go all out vegan (and I can respect that). But to tout this off as a great act of animal cruelty and continue to eat industry produced meat is beyond hypocrisy…"

What is this person going on about. People don't eat fucking giraffes and while there are issues with industrial scale farming, there are laws regulating it and the animals are stunned before slaughter. They're taken care of up to that point because their meat would be fucknasty and poor quality if they weren't. These people don't do "art" like this to be activists, they do it because they're exhibitionists, and they like doing things like traumatizing young children by cutting up animals in front of them.
They're just bug-fucking nuts. "If this offends you at all, you need to live by this one specific extreme lifestyle that should probably be classified as an eating disorder."

I don't know about where this dude is, but there are ways to get humanely raised chickens that produce delicious eggs. You don't need a battery farm for that unless you're a large-scale producer.
 
One who missed the free helicopter rides I guess.
On account of being an anti-communist, most likely. We don't like degenerate art. Chagall fled the USSR as soon as it was established.
 
Not related to the article, but what the hell kind of crazy life did you lead man?

The more I run into you on the farms the more questions just pop up. God speed you magnificent kiwi.
Have lived what some would say a long life, nearly 70, have done all sorts of things, been all sorts of places, provides a great deal of life experience.
 
Hang on, I'm going to start a monkey torture YT channel to protest monkey torture YT channels.... the farms will leave me alone right?... after all it's a protest.
 
It depends on how sows are kept with piglets, sows will just crush a bunch of their litter and not give a shit. I know young sows will panic eat their piglets if they think you are a threat.

Pigs are very smart, but awful mothers.
I don't think that's fair, the European regulations only mandate that for each sow they get 2,25 sq m space, which is really small , I think for an animal of that size and intelligence, that is going to fuck them up from boredom and desperation.

It is recommended that two guinea pigs have 1.49 sq m with 0.98 sq m being the minimum to not be causing their life to be shit and pig are way bigger than guinea pigs so I don't think it is fair to judge their mothering under such less than optimal conditions.
 
I don't think that's fair, the European regulations only mandate that for each sow they get 2,25 sq m space, which is really small , I think for an animal of that size and intelligence, that is going to fuck them up from boredom and desperation.

It is recommended that two guinea pigs have 1.49 sq m with 0.98 sq m being the minimum to not be causing their life to be shit and pig are way bigger than guinea pigs so I don't think it is fair to judge their mothering under such less than optimal conditions.
Sows will do that shit with a lot of room and good socialization. They have litters and it’s common for them to crush them on accident.
 
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