World Animal Protection opposes a new exhibition in Copenhagen by artist Marco Evaristti, which involves starving three piglets as a protest against industrial pig farming.
Evaristti, known for past controversial works involving live animals, claims his exhibition "And Now You Care" is designed to highlight the 28,000 piglets that die daily due to poor breeding conditions in Danish pig farming.
As part of the exhibit, the piglets are confined in a cage made from shopping carts and will not be provided with food or water.
Visitors are given the option to use a captive bolt gun to end the piglets' suffering, and Evaristti has pledged to feed them only if an associated Instagram group reaches 22,000 members pledging to boycott conventionally farmed pork.
World Animal Protection Denmark has strongly criticised this approach, stating that while industrial pig farming practices deserve urgent scrutiny, deliberately inflicting suffering on animals to make a point is unacceptable and a clear violation of the Danish Animal Welfare Act.
Gitte Buchhave, Country Director of World Animal Protection Denmark, said: "We understand Marco Evaristti’s intentions with his exhibition, but it is not acceptable to protest one form of animal cruelty by committing another."
"We have long criticised the conditions in Danish pig farming and will continue to do so, but this is not the way to create change."
Anna Melnykova, "Palace of Labor (palats praci), architector I. Pretro, 1916", shot with analog Canon camera, 35 mm Fuji film in March 2022.
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