Three Little Teapots

Biodiversity loss in livestock

How do we make people care for the total collapse of biodiversity in selectively bred domestic pigs?

Year

2021

Details

Colour-coded piglet teapots serve to visualize how representing domestic pigs as biodiverse clashes with our perception of a monocultural, pink pig

concept

Today, we classify pigs not by breed, but by production value: lard, bacon and pork pigs. This is because relentless selective breeding of pigs led to their total biodiversity collapse.

But not so long ago, pigs came in a variety of colours. Medieval European breeds were ginger-hued, rather than pink. The three little biodiverse teapots are a reminder of the various pig breeds that existed, but today seem unnatural and fictional.

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