voiceless: the animal protection institute

Ondine Sherman, Voiceless co-founder and Director

"If you want to have change, you need the whole spectrum, from the corporates to the political activists … to attack it from every angle..." The Australian Financial Review Magazine, 01 April 2008, read more

"The hard and sad reality is that humans are causing animals to suffer on a mass and unprecedented scale..." Ondine Sherman, Photofile 79 - Summer 2007, read more

"Voiceless wants to inspire the youth of today via Animal Club, to become the compassionate and informed decision makers of tomorrow..." Media Release, 30 April 2006, read more

Factory Farm Visits

Warning! These are actual photographs taken at factory farms - please be advised that you may find these images disturbing.

This is the world of factory farming. In these generic looking sheds, live thousands of animals, caged and deprived of all freedom.

Spending their lives in cages, chickens are turned into egg-laying machines.

No room to flap their wings.

Spending their lives standing on wire watching their eggs role past.

How many people think about what suffering lies behind their neatly packaged supermarket egg.

Voiceless would like to acknowledge and thank Koolpari Enterprises for permission to visit its property where these battery hen images were taken. Copyright: The photographs above may not be reproduced, published, copied or transmitted in any form without the consent of Voiceless.

Pigs
Like humans, pigs have a strong instinct to care and protect their young. When she is ready to give birth, a free ranging female pig (sow) selects a clean, dry area apart from the group. She will often walk several kilometres to find a good nest site and gather bedding materials. She hollows out a depression in the ground and lines it with grass, straw, or other materials. For several days after her babies are born, she defends the nest against intruders. When her babies are five to ten days old, she encourages them to leave the nest to socialise with the other pigs.

Pregnant female pigs are some of the most cruelly treated animals in the world. This is their maternity suite, commonly called a 'sow stall' by the industry.

Photograph provided by Animals Australia.

Pregnant pigs give birth in a 'farrowing crate'. Piglets are born into a world of concrete and steel. The only time they will see the sun is on the way to the abattoir.