Say No To The New Blantyre Farms Intensive Piggery Plans
Blantyre Farms, previously exposed for animal cruelty, have lodged a new Development Application (DA) for a large scale 25,000 pig intensive piggery at Harden in the Hilltops NSW shire.
Without question, the Blantyre Farms plans for expansion must be vigorously challenged and opposed.
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Help us to oppose the new Blantyre Farms DA to prevent the suffering of hundreds of thousands of pigs at the hands of Edwina and Michael Beveridge. Sign and share our Say No Petition and stay up to date with our Say No To Blantyre Farms In Harden campaign updates including an Objection Template which will be made available on Friday 8 May 2020.
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In December 2015 Edwina and Michael Beveridge of Blantyre Farms lodged a large scale Development Applicant (DA) with the then Harden Council (under NSW council amalgamation administration at the time), to expand their existing intensive piggery business on a rural site in the Harden NSW region. After a hard fought 19 month campaign which attracted a record number of objections, the DA was finally refused in late 2017.
Blantyre Farms have now lodged a new DA for an intensive piggery at the same proposed Harden region site, with the now merged Hilltops Council. The new DA includes infrastructure for 25,000 pigs, including 2,200 sows and their young, 5 breeder sheds and 16 grower sheds.
Footage obtained from inside Blantyre Farms Golden Grove and Dead Horse Gully (DHG) Piggeries in 2013 clearly demonstrates the cruelty and mistreatment considered standard practice by Blantyre Farms.
The new DA is on public exhibition until 18 May 2020 to enable public submissions. Any member of the public can lodge a submission. You are not required to reside to be a resident of the Hilltops shire or NSW.
This new DA, if approved (post construction), involves many thousands of pigs being subjected to cruel confinement in un-natural and unhygienic surroundings, where they will suffer extreme distress, frustration and painful routine husbandry procedures. Those who die in the Blantyre Farms sheds will be dumped in the dead pig compost pit. Juvenile pigs will be transported weekly from Harden NSW to the Diamond Valley Pork slaughterhouse in Laverton, Melbourne, where they will be lowered into a carbon dioxide gas chamber. Inside this chamber they will face excruciating pain as the gas suffocates them and turns to carbonic acid in their eyes, nose, mouth and lungs, until they lose consciousness (view footage).
The focus of the 'Say No To Blantyre Farms In Harden' campaign is opposing the new Blantyre Farms DA for an intensive piggery in Harden NSW, on a platform of Animals, the Environment and People, and opposing 'A Right to Harm'.
"At a time of rapid global animal agriculture disease spread, heightened concern about the treatment of highly social and intelligent sentient beings, the climate emergency including unprecedented environmental devastation and public health pandemics, without question, the new Blantyre Farms plans for intensive piggery expansion must be vigorously challenged and opposed".
- Say No Campaign Team