An artist in Denmark Its objective is to raise awareness about the suffering caused by the modern production of pigs with an art installation that opened on Friday that includes three piglets who will be denied food and water and starve to death.
Marco Evaristti, born in the Chilean, is courting the controversy to make a point on the treatment of pigs in Denmark, where around 25,000 piglets die daily as a result of the conditions in which they are raised.
The central exhibition in the exhibition “and Now You Care” of Copenhagen is an improvised cage created with shopping cars that contain three piglets. When the exhibition opened on Friday night, they were still fine, but they will not be given food and drink, and you can expect to starve in a few days.
Evaristti says on his Instagram page that exposure “is a confrontation with the bloody reality of Denmark” in slaughterhouses, and that urges people to reduce their consumption of meat and support agriculture that improves animal welfare.
The largest and oldest animal welfare organization in Denmark, Animal Protection Denmark, says that it appreciates Evaristti’s interest in the problem, but does not agree with how he wants to transmit it.
“We completely understand the indignation” of the artist, said Birgitte Damm, spokesman for the organization. “But we do not agree that three piglets, three individual living beings, must be hungry and prevented from drinking until they die for it. It is illegal and is the abuse of animals. “
“The fact that this happens to thousands every day in the industry does not do it well,” he said. But he also praised the artist for asking “the big questions about who we are as human beings or we want to be, and what we are doing to fellow creatures in the name of huge amounts of cheap meat produced in mass.”
Damm explained that the sows are raised in the Danish pig industry to produce about 20 piglets at the same time, but they only have 14 nipples, forcing piglets to compete for breast milk and lead to the starvation of many. She said that about 25,000 piglets die every day for hunger or the result of the conditions in which they are in Denmark.
It is not Evaristti’s first controversial project.
One of his projects included golden fish in the mixers, tempting the spectators to press the button and create gold fish soup.
In 2006 he used part of his own body fat eliminated through liposuction to prepare meatballs, and then ate some of them.
He described this project called “Polyte to Grasso Di Marco” as a criticism in the people who overvalue and then buy their way to thinness with liposuction, and at the same time an attempt to transcend the taboo of cannibalism.
