Undercover Investigations

Behind closed doors, animals are suffering at factory farms. Mercy For Animals' brave undercover investigators work to expose and end the abuse.

Exposing the Truth

At industrial farms and slaughterhouses, farmed animals endure shocking abuse, out of sight and out of mind. But a team of Mercy For Animals undercover investigators, wired with hidden cameras, is pulling back the curtains of these cruel and secretive operations, leading to landmark changes along the way.

Brazil Live Animal Export, 2019

Shocking footage has uncovered cows on arrival to the countries of destination being painfully craned by their legs from inside a live export ship. Slaughterhouse workers stab animals, slash their legs with knives, and cut open their throats while they are conscious and able to feel pain.

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Live Animal Export

Brazil, 2019

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Live Animal Export

Brazil, 2019

Live Animal Export

Brazil, 2019

Shocking footage has uncovered cows on arrival to the countries of destination being painfully craned by their legs from inside a live export ship. Slaughterhouse workers stab animals, slash their legs with knives, and cut open their throats while they are conscious and able to feel pain.
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Municipal Slaughterhouse 7

Mexico, 2019

Municipal Slaughterhouse 7

Mexico, 2019

Venezuelan television star María Gabriela de Faría narrates horrific new video footage revealing, for the seventh time, the appalling animal suffering inside Mexico’s government-owned slaughterhouses, including pregnant cows repeatedly shot with stun guns, kicked, dragged, and cut open while still able to feel pain.
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Municipal Slaughter 6

Mexico, 2019

Municipal Slaughter 6

Mexico, 2019

New video footage reveals for the sixth time the horrific animal suffering inside Mexico’s government-owned slaughterhouses, including baby pigs carelessly tossed, cut open, and left bleeding—all while conscious and able to feel pain.
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Animal Transportation

Mexico, 2019

Animal Transportation

Mexico, 2019

Shocking video footage exposes the appalling conditions animals face on the journey from farm to slaughterhouse in Mexico, including crowded, filthy conditions inside transport trucks and no access to food or water. Workers callously toss and hit animals, and animals become trapped and seriously injured or killed when they are crushed by transport crates.
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DRONE INVESTIGATIONS

Mercy For Animals’ drone investigations provide a whole new perspective on factory farming’s devastating impact on animals, the environment, and rural communities. Equipped with high-tech video cameras, our drones fly above factory farms and slaughterhouses, capturing the nightmarish scale of these facilities.

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Past Investigations and Exposés

Animal abuse runs rampant in the meat, dairy, and egg industries. With no federal laws regulating the treatment of animals in factory farms, cruelty has become the norm.

Pork

Pig Factory Farms

United States, 2018

Undercover video footage reveals the systemic animal cruelty in the pork industry, including stressed mother pigs confined to tiny metal crates, trapped between cage bars, and workers senselessly ripping out the testicles of baby pigs without any pain relief and violently killing them by smashing their heads against the ground.

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Pig Factory Farms

United States, 2018

Pig Factory Farms

United States, 2018

Undercover video footage reveals the systemic animal cruelty in the pork industry, including stressed mother pigs confined to tiny metal crates, trapped between cage bars, and workers senselessly ripping out the testicles of baby pigs without any pain relief and violently killing them by smashing their heads against the ground.
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Pig Farms Investigation

Mexico, 2018

Pig Farms Investigation

Mexico, 2018

Heartbreaking undercover video taken at six pig factory farms across Mexico captures mother pigs confined to filthy cages so small the animals can't even turn around, piglets mutilated without painkillers, and many sick and injured pigs left to suffer without proper veterinary care.
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Tosh Farms

United States, 2018

Tosh Farms

United States, 2018

Shocking undercover footage taken at a JBS supplier reveals sickening animal cruelty, including pigs punched and kicked in the face; mother pigs confined to cages so small they are unable to even turn around; and piglets painfully mutilated, suffering from untreated injuries and illness, and killed by having their heads smashed against the ground.
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Aurora

Brazil, 2017

Aurora

Brazil, 2017

Shocking video footage at an Aurora cooperative factory farm exposes workers slicing off the tails, cutting holes in the ears, and grinding the teeth of baby piglets without any pain relief; animals suffering from untreated injuries and illnesses; and mother pigs crammed in tiny gestation crates.
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The Maschhoffs

Oklahoma, 2017

The Maschhoffs

Oklahoma, 2017

At this Hormel pork supplier, a Mercy For Animals investigator exposed horrific animal abuse, including baby piglets having their testicles viciously ripped out and their sensitive tails cut off without any pain relief, sick and injured animals languishing without proper veterinary care, and mother pigs crammed into tiny, filthy crates.
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Seaboard Foods

Colorado, 2015

Seaboard Foods

Colorado, 2015

At Seaboard Foods—a Walmart pork supplier—workers viciously beat and strike pigs on their faces and backs with heavy cans and boards. Other pigs are shown suffering from injuries and illness, packed into filthy, overcrowded pens.
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Seaboard Foods

Colorado, 2014

Seaboard Foods

Colorado, 2014

Award-winning actor Joaquin Phoenix narrates this disturbing hidden-camera video at a pork supplier to Walmart. The Twittersphere exploded with celebrity tweets by Jessica Chastain, Kate Mara, Moby, and others calling on Walmart to stop the torture of mother pigs.
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Western Hog Exchange

Alberta, 2014

Western Hog Exchange

Alberta, 2014

Canada’s livestock transport regulations are the worst in the Western world, and lag far behind both the European Union and the United States. Farmed animals are often trucked thousands of miles, for days, without any food, water, or rest, resulting in the deaths of millions of animals each year.
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Tyson Pork Group

Oklahoma, 2013

Tyson Pork Group

Oklahoma, 2013

Hidden-camera footage shows sadistic animal abuse at this Walmart pork supplier, including workers throwing a bowling ball at a pig's head, kicking, throwing, hitting, and body slamming baby pigs, and cramming pregnant pigs for life in gestation crates so small the animals can't even turn around.
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Pipestone System

Minnesota, 2013

Pipestone System

Minnesota, 2013

At this Walmart pork supplier owned by the president of the National Pork Producers Council, workers were exposed violently slamming conscious piglets headfirst against the ground, ripping out their testicles without painkillers, and confining pregnant pigs in filthy, fly-infested gestation crates.
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Puratone

Manitoba, 2012

Puratone

Manitoba, 2012

The extreme animal abuse documented inside this Canadian hog factory farm sparked far-reaching media coverage and opened the eyes of millions of people to the plights of thousands of pigs who are crammed into filthy, metal gestation crates barely larger than their own bodies.
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Christensen Farms

Minnesota, 2012

Christensen Farms

Minnesota, 2012

This groundbreaking investigation led Costco, the third-largest grocery chain in America, and Kmart, the third-largest discount store in the world, to commit to phasing gestation crates out of their pork supply chains, leaving Walmart alone in its continued support of this torturous confinement system.
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Iowa Select

Iowa, 2011

Iowa Select

Iowa, 2011

Working undercover at Iowa’s largest pig factory farm, an investigator exposed the horrific plights of mother pigs confined to barren metal crates barely larger than their own bodies. The investigation also showed workers throwing piglets across the room and comparing the act to a “roller coaster ride.”
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Country View

Pennsylvania, 2009

Country View

Pennsylvania, 2009

This investigation provides a jarring glimpse into the nightmarish world of pork production, including the standard practice of keeping thousands of pregnant pigs confined in gestation crates—two-foot-wide metal stalls so small the animals can’t turn around or lie down comfortably.
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Chicken

Chicken Factory Farms

Brazil, 2018

Shocking undercover footage taken at multiple factory farms in Brazil exposes horrific suffering in the chicken industry, including baby chicks having their necks violently smashed against factory equipment, birds suffering from painful leg deformities, and chickens forced to live crammed by the tens of thousands in filthy sheds.

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Chicken Factory Farms

Brazil, 2018

Chicken Factory Farms

Brazil, 2018

Shocking undercover footage taken at multiple factory farms in Brazil exposes horrific suffering in the chicken industry, including baby chicks having their necks violently smashed against factory equipment, birds suffering from painful leg deformities, and chickens forced to live crammed by the tens of thousands in filthy sheds.
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Chicken Factory Farms

Brazil, 2018

Chicken Factory Farms

Brazil, 2018

Shocking undercover footage taken at multiple factory farms in Brazil exposes horrific suffering in the chicken industry, including baby chicks having their necks violently smashed against factory equipment, birds suffering from painful leg deformities, and chickens forced to live crammed by the tens of thousands in filthy sheds.
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Maple Lodge Farms

Ontario, 2018

Maple Lodge Farms

Ontario, 2018

Hidden-camera footage recorded by a Mercy For Animals whistleblower at a hatchery owned by Maple Lodge Farms exposes baby chicks ground up alive, roughly slammed onto equipment, and viciously killed by having their necks smashed against metal edges of factory machines.
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Lilydale

British Columbia, 2017

Lilydale

British Columbia, 2017

Disturbing undercover video of gruesome animal abuse at more than a dozen Lilydale chicken supplier farms exposes management standing by while workers torment animals with crude sex acts and rough handling, including punting and throwing birds, and ripping the legs off conscious animals.
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Tyson Foods

Tennessee, 2016

Tyson Foods

Tennessee, 2016

A brand-new Mercy For Animals investigation has shined a spotlight on the world’s largest and most notorious animal-abusing company: Tyson Foods. The video shows countless birds crammed into filthy, windowless sheds and forced to live for weeks in their own waste and toxic ammonia fumes.
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Perdue Farms

North Carolina, 2015

Perdue Farms

North Carolina, 2015

A Perdue factory farmer was charged with felony animal cruelty after MFA caught him kicking and throwing chickens and violently stomping them to death. The shocking investigation also exposed birds bred to grow unnaturally fast suffering from painful leg deformities and dying from heart attacks.
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Tyson Foods

Mississippi, 2015

Tyson Foods

Mississippi, 2015

Tyson Foods and several of its workers face 33 counts of criminal cruelty to animals charges following the release of this hidden-camera footage exposing workers punching, throwing, and tormenting chickens for fun and ripping off their heads while they are still alive and conscious.
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Tyson Foods

Tennessee, 2015

Tyson Foods

Tennessee, 2015

Undercover video shot at T & S Farm—a contract farm for Tyson Foods and a McDonald’s McNugget supplier—revealed owners impaling birds with makeshift spiked clubs and stepping on birds’ heads while pulling their wings or bodies to break their necks.
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Tyson Foods

Delaware, 2015

Tyson Foods

Delaware, 2015

MFA’s hidden camera caught workers at McGinnis Farms—a Tyson Foods contract farm—carelessly kicking, clubbing, and throwing chickens while thousands of severely sick and injured animals were left to suffer without proper veterinary care or access to food and water.
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Foster Farms

California, 2015

Foster Farms

California, 2015

Bob Barker, former host of The Price Is Right, narrates an undercover video exposing birds scalded alive at Foster Farms—certified as “humane” by American Humane Association—and workers maliciously punching and throwing chickens, and ripping out their feathers for fun.
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Maple Lodge Farms

Ontario, 2015

Maple Lodge Farms

Ontario, 2015

At Maple Lodge Farms, countless birds freeze to death during transport. Those who survive are violently slammed into metal shackles before being painfully shocked with electricity and having their throats cut open while still conscious and able to feel pain.
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Wayne Farms

North Carolina, 2015

Wayne Farms

North Carolina, 2015

Undercover footage from a poultry supplier to Gordon Food Service—the largest private foodservice distributor in North America—has exposed horrific cruelty to animals, including baby birds violently slammed into metal shackles before being painfully shocked with electricity and having their throats cut open.
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Koch Foods

Mississippi and Tennessee, 2014

Koch Foods

Mississippi and Tennessee, 2014

Sam Simon, the terminally ill co-creator of The Simpsons, took a bite out of Chick-fil-A over its cruel treatment of chickens in this shocking exposé. Video shows workers violently slamming birds into crates, shackling them upside down, and scalding them alive in hot water tanks.
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Horizon Hatchery

Ontario, 2014

Horizon Hatchery

Ontario, 2014

At this Maple Leaf Foods chicken hatchery, baby chicks are flung by their fragile wings and slammed into metal dividers, live chicks are sent through a scalding washing machine, burned, and drowned, and birds are overloaded and roughly crammed into macerators to be ground up alive.
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Dairy

Murmac Farms

Pennsylvania, 2017

Upsetting undercover footage shot at a dairy factory farm exposes calves stolen from their mothers shortly after they are born, tossed onto the hard ground, and left to suffer from untreated injuries and illnesses.

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Murmac Farms

Pennsylvania, 2017

Murmac Farms

Pennsylvania, 2017

Upsetting undercover footage shot at a dairy factory farm exposes calves stolen from their mothers shortly after they are born, tossed onto the hard ground, and left to suffer from untreated injuries and illnesses.
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Cactus Acres Holsteins

Colorado, 2015

Cactus Acres Holsteins

Colorado, 2015

Hidden-camera video footage from Cactus Acres Holsteins—a Dairy Farmers of America supplier—shows dairy workers viciously punching, kicking, beating, and stabbing cows, and violently slamming milking equipment into them as they walk through the filthy milking parlor.
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Andrus Dairy

Wisconsin, 2014

Andrus Dairy

Wisconsin, 2014

At this dairy supplier to Great Lakes Cheese—one of the largest cheese producers in the country—workers were caught on video viciously punching, kicking, and beating cows, hacking off their tails with pruning shears, and dragging them by their necks with ropes attached to tractors.
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Winchester Dairy

New Mexico, 2014

Winchester Dairy

New Mexico, 2014

Once again, a Mercy For Animals investigator uncovered criminal cruelty to animals—this time at a milk supplier to Leprino Foods, the world's largest maker of mozzarella cheese. Leprino is a major cheese supplier to Pizza Hut, Domino's, and Papa John's.
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Chilliwack Cattle Sales

British Columbia, 2014

Chilliwack Cattle Sales

British Columbia, 2014

This exposé at the largest dairy in Canada led to a raid by law enforcement and recommendations of criminal charges against eight workers for kicking, punching, and beating cows in the face and body and using chains and tractors to lift sick or injured animals by their necks.
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Wiese Brothers Farms

Wisconsin, 2013

Wiese Brothers Farms

Wisconsin, 2013

This stomach-turning investigation led Nestlé, the world's largest food company, to commit to improving farmed animal welfare across its entire global supply chain—covering more than 90 countries—in what may be the most comprehensive and far-reaching animal welfare policy of its kind.
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Bettencourt Dairies

Idaho, 2012

Bettencourt Dairies

Idaho, 2012

Video taken at this Burger King cheese supplier led to the arrest of the manager and workers who were caught viciously beating and shocking cows, violently twisting their tails to inflict pain, and dragging a downed cow by her neck using a chain attached to a tractor.
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E6 Cattle Co.

Texas, 2011

E6 Cattle Co.

Texas, 2011

Hidden-camera video footage of workers standing on the necks of baby calves, burning out their horns without painkillers, and bludgeoning them to death with pickaxes caused the live-cattle stock price to drop, and led to the arrest and conviction of the facility owner.
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Conklin Dairy Farms

Ohio, 2010

Conklin Dairy Farms

Ohio, 2010

This investigation has been credited with pushing the Ohio Farm Bureau to implement the most comprehensive set of animal welfare reforms ever enacted by a single state at one time, including a ban on veal crates and gestation crates, and a moratorium on new battery-cage egg facilities.
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Willet Dairy

New York, 2009

Willet Dairy

New York, 2009

Calves having their tails cut off and horns burned out of their skulls without painkillers, workers hitting, kicking, and shocking cows, and animals forced to live in filthy and overcrowded sheds—these were just some of the abuses uncovered at New York’s largest dairy factory farm.
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Eggs

Egg Factory Farm

Brazil, 2017

New video footage shows thousands of hens crammed inside tiny, filthy cages; birds trapped in sharp wire or under feed troughs; and dead birds left to decompose next to hens still laying eggs for human consumption.

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Egg Factory Farm

Brazil, 2017

Egg Factory Farm

Brazil, 2017

New video footage shows thousands of hens crammed inside tiny, filthy cages; birds trapped in sharp wire or under feed troughs; and dead birds left to decompose next to hens still laying eggs for human consumption.
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Gray Ridge Egg Farms

Ontario, 2016

Gray Ridge Egg Farms

Ontario, 2016

This hidden-camera footage reveals the dark underbelly of the egg industry. Birds are crammed for nearly their entire lives in tiny cages, unable to walk without stepping on other birds. Their feet ache from standing on metal wire. Dead birds are left to rot in cages alongside hens still laying eggs for human consumption.
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Eggland's Best

Washington, 2016

Eggland's Best

Washington, 2016

A new Mercy For Animals investigation uncovers sickening animal cruelty and neglect at an Eggland’s Best supplier. Dead birds rot in cages with hens still laying eggs destined for the country’s breakfast plates, and workers violently rip birds out of cages and throw them into trash cans to be cruelly gassed to death.
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Shady Brae Farms

Pennsylvania, 2016

Shady Brae Farms

Pennsylvania, 2016

Disturbing undercover footage of shocking animal abuse at a United Egg Producers-certified egg factory farm shows thousands of birds packed so tightly into filthy wire cages they can hardly move and dead hens rotting in cages with live birds still laying eggs for human consumption.
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Creekside Farms and Kuku Farms

Alberta, 2013

Creekside Farms and Kuku Farms

Alberta, 2013

Undercover video taken at farms supplying McDonald's Canada’s exclusive egg provider reveals hens crammed inside tiny wire battery cages, workers smashing in the heads of baby birds and tossing live chicks into trash bags to suffocate, and dead hens left to rot in cages with live birds.
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Sparboe Farms

Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, 2011

Sparboe Farms

Iowa, Minnesota, Colorado, 2011

This investigation exposed the secret ingredient in McDonald’s Egg McMuffins: horrific animal abuse. After garnering international media attention, including on Good Morning America and 20/20, Target and Sam’s Club terminated their contracts with Sparboe Farms.
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Hy-Line Hatchery

Iowa, 2009

Hy-Line Hatchery

Iowa, 2009

At the world’s largest hatchery for egg-laying chickens, day-old baby birds are thrown, mutilated without painkillers, and violently killed. This investigation, which sparked international outcry, revealed the standard egg industry practice of throwing unwanted male chicks into a macerator to be ground up alive.
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Quality Egg of New England

Maine, 2009

Quality Egg of New England

Maine, 2009

This investigation prompted a raid by state police and led the owner of the facility to plead guilty to 10 counts of cruelty to animals, agree to pay more than $130,000 in fines and restitution, and hand over authority to the state of Maine to conduct unannounced inspections for five years.
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Gemperle Enterprises

California, 2008

Gemperle Enterprises

California, 2008

Covert footage recorded at one of the nation’s largest egg producers uncovered hens left to suffer from untreated injuries and infections and workers roughly cramming birds into cages, tearing birds out of cages by their fragile wings, kicking, stomping, and throwing them, and hurling them into “kill carts.”
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Norco Ranch

California, 2008

Norco Ranch

California, 2008

Just weeks before California voted on Proposition 2 to give egg-laying hens enough room to walk, stand, and stretch their limbs, MFA released this startling footage from inside the state’s largest egg producer. Prop 2 passed with overwhelming support, making California the first state to ban battery cages.
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Ohio Fresh Eggs

Ohio, 2004

Ohio Fresh Eggs

Ohio, 2004

At Ohio’s largest egg factory farm, millions of hens are crammed for life into barren battery cages so small each bird has less floor space than the size of a sheet of notebook paper. From the time they hatch until they are violently killed, these hens endure lives of misery and deprivation.
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Weaver Brothers Egg Farm

Ohio, 2002

Weaver Brothers Egg Farm

Ohio, 2002

Video footage recorded at this United Egg Producers “Animal Care Certified” facility reveals hens coated in feces and packed in tiny cages, birds suffering from untreated infections, corpses left to rot on cage floors, birds trapped in cage wire, and a live hen left to die in a trash bin.
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Turkey

Lilydale

British Columbia, 2016

Shocking hidden-camera footage obtained by Mercy For Animals reveals horrific cruelty to animals, including turkeys violently slammed into metal shackles before being painfully shocked with electricity and having their throats cut open while still conscious and able to feel pain.

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Lilydale

British Columbia, 2016

Lilydale

British Columbia, 2016

Shocking hidden-camera footage obtained by Mercy For Animals reveals horrific cruelty to animals, including turkeys violently slammed into metal shackles before being painfully shocked with electricity and having their throats cut open while still conscious and able to feel pain.
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Butterball

North Carolina, 2014

Butterball

North Carolina, 2014

Hidden-camera video at this Butterball turkey hatchery shows birds having their sensitive toes and beaks cut and burned off without any painkillers, workers callously throwing and dropping these fragile animals, and sick or injured birds being thrown into a pit to be ground up alive.
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Hybrid Turkeys

Ontario, 2014

Hybrid Turkeys

Ontario, 2014

Video footage at the world’s largest primary turkey breeder shows workers kicking and throwing turkeys, crushing their spines, and violently beating them with shovels and metal rods. Turkeys with open, pus-filled wounds, rotting eyes, and festering infections were left to suffer and die.
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Butterball

North Carolina, 2012

Butterball

North Carolina, 2012

Less than a year after MFA’s first Butterball investigation led to criminal animal cruelty convictions of Butterball workers for kicking, beating, and throwing animals, new video footage from multiple turkey factory farms in North Carolina shows that animal abuse continues to run rampant at Butterball.
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Butterball

North Carolina, 2011

Butterball

North Carolina, 2011

Video footage of Butterball workers violently kicking and stomping on birds, dragging them by their wings and necks, and slamming them into transport crates resulted in the arrest and conviction of several Butterball workers, including the first-ever felony conviction in U.S. history for cruelty to factory-farmed birds.
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House of Raeford Farms

North Carolina, 2007

House of Raeford Farms

North Carolina, 2007

An MFA investigator secretly filmed workers throwing, punching, kicking, and ripping the heads off of live birds. The investigation also revealed conscious and thrashing turkeys having their throats cut open—spotlighting the disturbing result of exempting birds from the federal Humane Methods of Slaughter Act.
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Veal

Délimax Veal

Quebec, 2014

After hidden-camera footage recorded by a Mercy For Animals whistleblower exposed this Délimax-affiliated veal factory farm in Canada’s largest veal-producing province, Quebec’s veal producers federation and Canada’s top grocery chains, including Metro, Loblaws, and Sobeys, committed to ending the sale of veal from crated calves by 2018.

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Délimax Veal

Quebec, 2014

Délimax Veal

Quebec, 2014

After hidden-camera footage recorded by a Mercy For Animals whistleblower exposed this Délimax-affiliated veal factory farm in Canada’s largest veal-producing province, Quebec’s veal producers federation and Canada’s top grocery chains, including Metro, Loblaws, and Sobeys, committed to ending the sale of veal from crated calves by 2018.
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Buckeye Veal Farm

Ohio, 2010

Buckeye Veal Farm

Ohio, 2010

Following this investigation, Costco, the third-largest grocery chain in America, adopted a policy against purchasing veal from producers who use the crate-and-chain production method, and Bob Barker, host of The Price Is Right, urged consumers nationwide to boycott veal and dairy.
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Fish

Driftnet Fishing Industry 3

United States, 2018

Multiple investigations reveal that blatant animal abuse runs rampant on commercial driftnet fishing boats. Sharks are painfully pierced with hooks, stabbed, and bludgeoned over the head with a baseball bat and dolphins and other marine animals are trapped and killed in fishing nets.

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Driftnet Fishing Industry 3

United States, 2018

Driftnet Fishing Industry 3

United States, 2018

Multiple investigations reveal that blatant animal abuse runs rampant on commercial driftnet fishing boats. Sharks are painfully pierced with hooks, stabbed, and bludgeoned over the head with a baseball bat and dolphins and other marine animals are trapped and killed in fishing nets.
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Driftnet Fishing Industry 2

United States, 2018

Driftnet Fishing Industry 2

United States, 2018

Undercover video footage reveals the systemic animal cruelty and environmental devastation of the commercial driftnet fishing industry.
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Driftnet Fishing Industry 1

United States, 2018

Driftnet Fishing Industry 1

United States, 2018

Undercover footage exposes workers viciously mutilating stingrays and sawing fins off sharks while the animals are still alive and protected species, like dolphins, sea lions, and seabirds, killed by the cruel driftnet fishing industry.
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Catfish Corner

Texas, 2010

Catfish Corner

Texas, 2010

Workers cutting, slicing, skinning, suffocating, and dismembering live and fully conscious catfish are just some of the sickening images caught on video at this Texas fish slaughter facility. MFA used this investigation to push for new legislation to prohibit “skinning and dismembering of all live, conscious animals,” including fish.
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