{"id":253013,"date":"2025-03-06T11:15:02","date_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:15:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/artist-abandons-plan-to-starve-piglets-to-death-after-animals-stolen\/"},"modified":"2025-03-06T11:15:02","modified_gmt":"2025-03-06T11:15:02","slug":"artist-abandons-plan-to-starve-piglets-to-death-after-animals-stolen","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/06\/artist-abandons-plan-to-starve-piglets-to-death-after-animals-stolen\/","title":{"rendered":"Artist abandons plan to starve piglets to death after animals stolen"},"content":{"rendered":"
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An artist who tried to starve three piglets to death as part of a controversial exhibition says he has changed his plan after the animals were stolen.<\/p>\n

Chilean-born Marco Evaristti said he had wanted to raise awareness of the suffering caused by mass meat production with his art installation that opened last week in Copenhagen, Denmark.<\/p>\n

The piglets were being denied food and water and would have been allowed to starve to death.<\/p>\n

But Mr Evaristti said the piglets – dubbed Lucia, Simon and Benjamin – were taken by animal rights activists who were assisted by his friend, Caspar Steffensen.<\/p>\n

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“I called up police on Saturday to report the piglets stolen and I had to shut down the entire exhibition because of that – so I was very disappointed when Caspar told me on Tuesday that he was involved in the theft,” said Mr Evaristti, who also claimed to have received hate mail.<\/p>\n

“But then I thought about it for a few hours and realised that at least this way the piglets would have a happy life.”<\/p>\n

Copenhagen police said they had received reports “that the pigs had been stolen from the exhibition”.<\/p>\n

Mr Evaristti’s exhibition, And Now You Care, involved a makeshift cage created with shopping trolleys containing the three piglets.<\/p>\n

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He said the intention was to raise awareness about the cruelties of modern pig production in Denmark.<\/p>\n

The Animal Protection Denmark welfare group says sows are bred in the Danish pig industry to produce about 20 piglets at a time – but with only 14 teats, piglets are forced to compete for milk and often starve.<\/p>\n

However, several animal rights groups voiced concern about Mr Evaristti’s exhibition, saying while they welcomed initiatives to raise awareness, they did not condone animal abuse.<\/p>\n

Mr Steffensen said he could not allow the three animals to face a painful death after his 10-year-old daughter had begged him to “make sure the piggies won’t die”.<\/p>\n

“So when I was approached by an activist to help free the animals, I let them into the gallery secretively on Saturday,” he said.<\/p>\n

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However, Mr Evaristti said he will revive the exhibition and hopes to somehow get dead piglets from meat processing plants and present them to the public.<\/p>\n

“I’m in the process of acquiring animals that have died of starvation or other terrible circumstances in agriculture. I want to display them in a transparent refrigerator,” he told Denmark’s Ekstra Bladet.<\/p>\n

He said his aim was to fill the transparent refrigerator to bursting point with dead animals to show how animals in agriculture are squeezed into small cages.<\/p>\n

Having acquired the refrigerator, he said he now just needed the dead animals.<\/p>\n

“I’m willing to pay a high price,” he added.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n


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