Animal Equality’s first investigation into the Spanish mink industry revealed a rarely seen look inside mink fur farms. Investigators witnessed hundreds of minks caged in solitary confinement. Many of the animals endlessly paced and circled in their cages, a sign of severe psychological distress.

Determined to end the violent “El Toro de la Vega” bull killing festival, Animal Equality investigators once again went to the event to document it and raise awareness about the cruel spectacle.

Animal Equality investigators documented the suffering of calves that were publicly killed in El Escorial, a town in Madrid, for a local bullfighting event. Video footage shows the animals screaming, bleeding, and being tortured by participants of the festival, who used spears to maim the animals until they collapsed.

As a part of the two-year pig farm investigation, Animal Equality investigators went into awarded pig farms to get photos and video footage. Their findings revealed extreme cruelty to animals on the farms, which had been praised for being more “humane” than typical farms in the meat industry.

For more than two years, we documented the horrific reality of the life and death of pigs in Spain’s meat industry. Sixty Animal Equality investigators entered 172 pig farms to obtain eyewitness footage for this groundbreaking research on animal exploitation.

Animal Equality released its second investigation into the Spanish mink industry. The eyewitnesses documented extreme cruelty inside the farms, including minks with maggot-infested wounds and missing limbs left to languish without pain relief or veterinary care.

Animal Equality’s research team entered several vivisection laboratories in Spain. They witnessed dozens of mice being forced to coexist in cramped cages stacked on top of each other, many desperately biting the bars in an attempt to escape. We were able to rescue four mice who were slated to be used in likely painful and traumatic cirrhosis research.

Animal Equality’s first investigation into the Spanish mink industry revealed a rarely seen look inside mink fur farms. Investigators witnessed hundreds of minks caged in solitary confinement. Many of the animals endlessly paced and circled in their cages, a sign of severe psychological distress.

Our investigator photographed a fox farm in Poland to raise awareness about how these animals live. Foxes are forced to live in small, barren, wire cages, which are surely psychological torture for these normally curious animals. The only time the foxes are likely to leave the cage is the day they’re slaughtered.

Animal Equality investigators infiltrated the cruel “Toro de la Vega” festival for the first time to document and denounce the cruelty of the bull killing ritual. In the annual event, a terrified bull is chased through the town of Tordesillas, Spain, and speared to death by hundreds of lancers once he reaches an open field.