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Dear [NAME],
Three Animal Liberation (NSW) Investigators face the Supreme Court over bringing evidence to the POLICE of treatment of sows in a piggery.
PLEASE PLEDGE SUPPORT FOR THESE 'COMRADES OF ANIMALS' – Diana Simpson, Mauro Grassi (a Director of Animal Liberation) and Tully James by coming to the Hearing and/or making a donation towards the legal costs of this hard fought case.
This landmark case is extremely important; a piggery is trying to obtain copyright of video and photos, obtained by our investigators, to try to stop the Australian public from seeing the way pigs are treated in intensive piggeries.
Where: Supreme Court NSW, Cnr Philip and Macquarie Streets, Sydney
Case: Windridge Farms Pty Limited -VS- Mauro Grassi et Ors
When: Monday 6 September, 9.30am
For three decades Animal Liberation NSW has been at the forefront of exposing cruelty to pigs in factory farms. We have been involved in numerous investigations, protests and sit-ins that have led the way in exposing the cruelty of intensive piggeries to the Australian public, and we continue to do so.
One of the largest exposes of cruelty was at former Prime Minister Paul Keating's piggery in Scone when 33 people did a sit-in with Professor Peter Singer and tethered themselves opposite tethered sows. Two days after the sit-in the then Minister for Primary Industries, Richard Amery, banned the use of tethering in direct response to our action.
In 1996 The Hon. Richard Jones MLC and 34 activists did a sit-in at BUNGE piggery, the largest in the Southern Hemisphere – this led to the company investing millions of dollars into eco shelters where sows can wallow in rice hulls. Two years later Animal Liberation took "A Current Affair" to Boen Boe piggery in NSW – that story was the 5th highest rating for the year. The RSPCA eventually successfully prosecuted management for keeping breeding sows in stalls which "caused distress and suffering" – an important precedent.
Another 2 year Animal Liberation campaign resulted in Kootingal piggery being closed down by police because sow stalls there were even smaller than those regulated.
An undercover investigation into, and eventual direct action 'sit in' at, Amanda Vanstone's piggery 'Wasleys' led to four national Today Tonight stories and unprecedented public awareness of thousands of sows caged in stalls.
Now the pig industry realizes their Achilles heel is the undercover pictures we take and this case is about them trying to hide those images from the public – PLEASE PLEDGE YOUR SUPPORT FOR THIS IMPORTANT CASE: Come and support defendants and/or make a donation towards our legal costs in this precedent setting case.
33 Animal Liberation activists tethered to sow stalls at Parkville Piggery.
44 Animal Liberation activists chained next to sows at Bunge Piggery.
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