Jan Dutkiewicz - policy fellow at Harvard Law School - uses the industry's reaction to our recent investigation into a UK dairy farm as an example to reveal the factory farming playbook for handling animal abuse reports.
Around 94% of people in the European Union (EU) believe it is important to protect the welfare of animals. At the same time, between 10 million and 70 million ducks and geese are force-fed to produce foie gras in the EU each…
A mother’s love is universal. Millions of animals who are bred and killed every year on farms all over the world are mothers. But on factory farms, a female animal who gives birth is not considered a mother. Instead, she is considered…
Here are some of the key international successes that Animal Equality has achieved in the fight to end the force-feeding of farmed animals all over the world. Animal Equality has worked for over a decade to stop the cruel practice of force-feeding…
Fish are scientifically recognised as capable of feeling pain. However, these intelligent animals are yet to be given the same protection as other farmed animals. Animal Equality is on a mission to make sure that fish are not forgotten.
Animal Equality conducts undercover investigations into farms and slaughterhouses around the world. Investigations are the most powerful tool we have to expose the cruel and abusive treatment of animals inside the secretive world of industrial animal agriculture. As part of our investigations,…
Animal Equality’s undercover investigator talked about the cruelty behind the dairy industry on BBC1’s Panorama documentary ‘A Cow’s Life: The True Cost of Milk’. On Monday 14th February, Animal Equality released disturbing undercover footage of deliberate violence and neglect on Madox…
Animal Equality has been working tirelessly for over 15 years to defend the most neglected of all: farmed animals. Our mission is to end the suffering that these innocent beings are forced to endure throughout their entire lives to satisfy a needless…
The UK Dairy Industry The UK is the 13th largest dairy producer in the world, producing 15.3 million litres of milk in 2020 and with a market value of £4.4 billion. However, despite the increase in production, the number of cows used…
Today, the vast majority of farmed animals in the UK spend their short lives confined on factory farms. This is the result of a decades-long process in which companies in the meat, dairy and egg industries have tried to get more and…
What’s Wrong With The Dairy Industry? Around 2.6 million cows are used for their milk every year in the UK and a growing number of them have never stepped foot on grass and will never see a pasture. Because of the deceptive…
For over fifteen years, Animal Equality has worked tirelessly to raise awareness about what happens to billions of animals behind the closed doors of farms and slaughterhouses all around the world. We were one of the first organisations to expose the horror…
Since Animal Equality was founded in 2006, our team has been at the forefront of driving meaningful changes for animals through strategic and powerful public demonstrations. From carrying out open rescues of animals suffering in factory farms to disrupting the cruel industries…
“The first to be killed are the calves, so they stop calling for their mothers.” Animal Equality Spain interviewed Mauricio Garcia Pereira, who worked for seven years at a slaughterhouse in Limoges, the largest in France. After…
The shocking testimonies of undercover investigators and former slaughterhouse workers. One of the questions Animal Equality and our investigators are often asked is: what is it like to work in a slaughterhouse? Providing an answer to this question is not easy,…
