ABSTRACT
This chapter examines Save Movement photography as an activist art practice that critically exposes the meat industry for causing untold suffering to livestock animals, notably pigs, whose cognitive and emotional capacities are often compared with those of dogs. At first glance, the Save Movement's attention to climate change in tandem with animal issues might seem strange or misplaced. On June 22, 2015, Canadian activist Anita Krajnc led a group intervention in Toronto to give water and comfort to pigs while bearing witness to their suffering from stress and heat exhaustion in a transport truck destined for an industrial slaughterhouse. Since 2011, Krajnc has focused on local interventions while helping to develop a global network of decentralized community organizations, whose goals are varied and evolving. In addition to pigs, Save activists raise awareness about the industrial slaughter of cows, chickens, turkeys, lambs, calves, and rabbits.
