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20 October 2023
Vienna Insight: New graffiti by Raffael Strasser is a call to protect animals by changing the law
The Verein Gegen Tierfabriken (Association Against Animal Factories) released a press information about the new graffiti by artist Raffael Strasser on the Danube Canal in Vienna. The artwork calls for an end to the treatment of fattening cattle - bulls, oxen, calves - on fully slatted floors, which are concrete floors riddled with sharp-edged gaps 3.5 cm wide and 8 cm apart, as explained in more detail on the website vgt.at/rinder.
The URL is part of the artwork, which shows a bull in the style of Stone Age petroglyphs (rock carvings) and the inscription that killing cattle belongs to the Stone Age and that the fully slatted floor makes everything much worse. On the association's website, the situation in Austria is more accurately described: a bull weighing up to 650 kg has only 1.5 m x 1.8 m of floor space for its entire life of 20 months. Users have the chance to improve the situation of the animals by signing the petition to change the law.
Image: The new graffiti by Raffael Strasser on the Vienna Danube Canal at Franzensbrücke is a protest against the fattening of cattle on fully slatted floors. The 6m high and 10m wide image shows a bull on a fully slatted floor, the writing "Rinder töten gehört in die Steinzeit und der Vollspaltenboden macht alles viel schlimmer" and a link to the VGT (Verein Gegen Tierfabriken) website vgt.at/rinder for more information about the plight of fattening cattle. Photo: © VGT.at.
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