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An artist in Denmark, Marco Evaristti, has an art installation that includes three piglets, named Lucia, Simon, and Benjaminm, who will be denied food and water and will starve to death. Visitors are given a captive bolt gun with the option to end their suffering.
It's supposed to raise awareness for the treatment of pigs in Denmark; Sows in Denmark are bred to have an average of 20 piglets, but only have 14 teats, meaning many piglets starve.
Marco pledged to feed (and I assume water) the piglets if and only if an associated Instagram page gets 22k followers - said Instagram group pledges to not contribute to factory farming pigs.
The exhibition, called "And Now You Care", opened in Copenhagen, Denmark on 2/28/25 in the evening. The young pigs are expected to die of dehydration in a few days.

BUT this story has a happy ending; Marco's friend, Caspar Steffensen, worked with animal rights groups on Saturday to steal the piglets from the exhibit.

Steffensen said he could not allow the three animals to face a painful death after his 10-year-old daughter had begged him to “make sure the piggies won't die.”

I see food and water in this exhibit but I am assuming these photos were taken prior to the opening of the exhibit, as it sounds like these pigs were not there long before they were stolen. Probably wanted to make sure they could last as long as possible to give people time to kill them.

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