A latest art installation features three live piglets that can starve to death resulting from 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 make clear the cruelty of contemporary pig production in Denmark, where about 25,000 piglets die day by day in consequence of poor breeding conditions.
Evaristti, a native of Chile, generated offended responses when he posted in regards to the exhibit, where the pigs are displayed in a cage fabricated from shopping carts, on his Instagram.
As an ethical vegan I’m appalled at this sick exhibition,” one commenter wrote.
“This will not be the best way, go to the slaughterhouses for vigils like the remainder of us. Don’t take part in cruelty.”
“Please don’t starve these pigs,” said a 3rd. “They don’t should die a slow painful death on account of ‘making a degree.’ You aren’t any higher than the issue you want to resolve.”
“WHAT A SICK ACT OF TORTURE OF INNOCENT PIGLETS,” another person added.
Denmark’s largest and oldest animal welfare organization, Animal Protection Denmark, expressed mixed feelings in regards to the installation.
“We completely understand the indignation” of the artist, said Birgitte Damm, a spokesperson for the organization. “But we don’t agree that three piglets, three individual living beings, must be starved and prevented from drinking until they die from it. It is prohibited and it’s abuse of the animals.”
Although she disagreed with the best way Evaristti went about advocating for the animals, Damm did say he was correct in posing “the massive questions on who we’re as human beings or need to be, and what we’re doing to fellow creatures within the name of enormous amounts of mass-produced low cost meat.”
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