Animal abuser sentenced

“A pigsty like this reflects on all farmers!”

Massive abuses keep coming to light in pig farming. Things were particularly bad on a farm in Carinthia.

(Bild: Jürgen Radspieler)

It's not every day that a farmer reports his own colleague to the police. But the abuses on a farm in Carinthia were so bad that the farmer had had enough: "This is not acceptable! This is doing massive damage to agriculture." However, his wish for the animal abuser to "do time" remained unfulfilled.

"It wasn't a pigsty, it was a pigsty," grumbles the farmer who started the proceedings against a pig farmer in Lower Carinthia for animal cruelty. "The poor animals were crammed together in their filth; there was no light either. And such conditions then fall back on all farmers!"