In one of the most daring undercover investigations to date, we exposed the cruelty and destruction caused by fishing when we documented trawling in the Mediterranean Sea in Italy, showing millions of fish suffering will being caught in massive nets that destroy the ocean floor and catch everything in their path.

An investigator worked at two pig farms in Italy to document the everyday nightmare that pigs are forced to live through in the meat industry, and expose it to the public.

At a United Kingdom pig farm certified and praised for having high standards, our investigators uncovered horrible abuse, including a worker smashing piglets’ heads against a wall, piglets screaming in agony as their teeth were clipped, and terrified pigs being shocked repeatedly with an electric prod.

In collaboration with Canadian photographer Jo-Anne McArthur, our investigation into Spanish egg farms reveals millions of chickens spend their entire lives inside a cage, with space to live no larger than a letter-sized piece of paper. The footage we collected shows chickens suffer tremendously on these farms.

Investigators exposed horrific and unsanitary conditions in one of Germany’s biggest egg-producing facilities, which supplies eggs to the biggest supermarket and budget supermarket chains in the country, showing a frightening sight of sickness, filth, and death.

After an anonymous tip-off, Animal Equality investigators visited Fir Tree Farm, which is owned by one of Britain’s largest pig producers. We found that several workers repeatedly abused animals, including kicking pigs in the face and head, jabbing pigs with a fork and spraying paint directly up a pig’s nose.

For the first time in Mexico, Animal Equality’s undercover investigators documented the entire process of chicken meat production, showing never-before-seen images of what these intelligent and sensitive birds endure, from the day they are born until they end up on the plates of consumers in Mexico.

100% Italian Chicken: The Animal Equality investigation team once again revealed the cruelty behind chicken breeding in Italy. This investigation focused on showing the violence and mistreatment that chickens are forced to suffer from birth to slaughter.

Just days after Animal Equality released shocking scenes of suffering filmed on a Noble Foods farm, the company – which is the United Kingdom’s biggest egg producer – committed to ending the sale of eggs from caged hens by 2025.

Once again, Animal Equality investigators showed the world a sad look inside an Italian rabbit slaughterhouse. This investigation revealed that oftentimes, the animals weren’t stunned as required by law, resulting in their prolonged suffering.

In collaboration with the Spanish TV program Salvados, Animal Equality investigated Hermanos Carrasco, a pig farm located in Spain’s Murcia region and supplier of the international meat company El Pozo which supplies major United Kingdom retailers. We discovered animals in shockingly cruel conditions, in violation of the law, suffering for days and weeks on end. Our investigation resulted in a petition asking UK retailers to stop selling meat from the supplier.

Animal Equality releases a shocking video obtained from inside a slaughterhouse in Lombardy. The footage shows the final moments of a pig's life: improperly stunned, the animal regains consciousness during slaughter and suffers for several minutes before dying.