About SaveBabe.com

SaveBabe.com is a website and a campaign that has been created by Animals Australia to highlight the suffering of factory farmed pigs in Australia. Laws have failed to protect millions of pigs each year from acts of cruelty. This website has been created to inform, educate and empower consumers to help created needed change.

Our grateful thanks go to Rebecca Gibney, Jackie O, Suzie Wilks, Jessica Napier and James Cromwell for their willing support of the SaveBabe.com campaign.

Currently most Australians are unaware of the plight of pigs in factory farms, or that they are unwittingly supporting the suffering endemic to this industry by buying factory farmed pork. Nor are they aware that pigs have been denied the legislative protection from acts of cruelty afforded to other animals for economic reasons. By complying with an industry ‘code of practice’, industry operators gain exemptions from prosecutions and do no have to provide the same standard of care of animals that is expected of every other member of the Australian community.

The Pig Code Review:

This ‘code of practice’ which allows breeding pigs to be severely confined indoors for their entire lives in sow stalls and farrowing crates and surgical mutilations of piglets such as tail cutting and teeth clipping without pain relief, has been under review.

Animals Australia participated in the review and opposed the continued use of sow stalls and farrowing crates as well as proposed a number of welfare initiatives such as the provision of bedding materials for animals.

In the new draft code of practice, none of Animals Australia proposals were accepted. The draft pig code fails to provide significant reforms to improve the welfare of pigs in Australia and continues to allow cruelty.

If this Code is adopted it will mean that breeding pigs will continue to be closely confined - in 'sow stalls' during pregnancy, and in farrowing pens during the birth and suckling of their piglets. For the next 10 years, breeding female pigs will be permitted to be kept in the 'stalls' which measure just 0.6 metres x 2.0 metres during their entire 16 week pregnancy – and after 2017 still can be confined for 6 weeks of each pregnancy. Read more:

> 'Codes of Cruelty'
> Leading Ethicist condemns outcome of National Pig Code Review

Further details of the welfare issues relating to sow stalls and farrowing crates can be found at:

> Behind Closed Doors

> Facts and Fallacies

Animals Australia is also deeply disappointed by the public survey document provided by the government which is completely inappropriate and fails to provide members of the community who, as consumers, are key stakeholders, with the opportunity to properly express their concerns relating to this manner of ‘farming.’

As a result Animals Australia made available to concerned community members an alternate survey document to enable them to express their concerns.

Once again – laws and political processes have failed to protect these animals from suffering and acts of cruelty. The power to created needed change for millions of pigs in Australia rests with consumer choice. Throughout this website you will find overwhelming evidence as to why, if you care about the welfare of animals, you should not purchase factory farmed pork, ham and bacon products.

Please watch the video – In Defence of Mothers – and then take action. Their future rests with the choices you make next time you shop. Please ‘say no’ to cruelty.

We are also indebted to investigators Diana Simpson, Cherie Wilson and Jonathan Hallett for providing images and video material for the website.

Animals Australia would also like to thank our international friends, Compassion in World Farming and photographer Colin Seddon for providing some of the happy images on this site!