Tell the Victorian Government to ban ALL bestiality

Over 90% of pig farms use artificial insemination to impregnate female pigs (sows). Semen is first collected from boars who spend the majority of their lives in small stalls at specialised boar farms, or at some standard piggeries. 

Workers will train young boars to mount a 'dummy sow' by first using a real sow to arouse him.

His semen, the semen of other boars or saliva from a sow will be rubbed onto the dummy and he will be encouraged to mount and thrust.

Boars used for breeding will be brought into a small pen and forced to mount the dummy. A worker will rub at their genital area until their penis begins to emerge. The worker will then manually masturbate the boar and collect his semen.

This will be done up to three times a week for each boar.

Often, boars will resist as they are brought into the pens, refusing to mount the dummy even as they are shoved and hit by the worker.

Boars will spend the rest of their time in small stalls, which are barely as wide as their bodies and allow only a few small steps forward and backwards. At two years old, they will be sent to the slaughterhouse.

All of this is completely legal and standard practice...

The sexual exploitation of animals by humans is standard across almost all animal use industries. It's time to ban ALL bestiality in Australia.

We are calling on the Victorian Government to:

Ban the use of boar stalls in Victorian piggeries

The extreme confinement of pigs has been long protested as one of the most clear forms of animal abuse which is still legal in Australia. The legally accepted space requirement for boars confined in stalls is 0.7 metres by 2.4 metres long, which barely gives them enough room to take a few small steps forward and to lie down. 

Remove outdated exemptions from the Crimes Act which allow the sexual penetration of animals for purposes of animal agriculture

• Classify all sexual penetration of animals as illegal bestiality.

• Criminalise all sexual touching of animals, not only penetration.

• Remove all exemptions to bestiality laws which permit sexual exploitation as part of 'standard industry practice' like breeding and artificial insemination.