Undercover InvestigationsBehind 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.
High-Speed Slaughter Lines, United States
Shocking footage reveals the horrors of high-speed chicken slaughter, such as fully conscious birds hung upside down by their legs on a rapid live-shackle line and sick chickens thrown away like trash or kept on the line for slaughter.
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2020 INVESTIGATIONS RELEASES
2020
Egg Factory Farms
Mexico, 2020
Undercover footage of egg farms in Mexico, taken at seven facilities in Nuevo León, Yucatán, and Jalisco, Mexico. The video exposes horrific animal cruelty and significant public health threats.
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Egg Factory Farms
Mexico, 2020
Egg Factory Farms
Mexico, 2020
Undercover footage of egg farms in Mexico, taken at seven facilities in Nuevo León, Yucatán, and Jalisco, Mexico. The video exposes horrific animal cruelty and significant public health threats.
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High-Speed Slaughter Lines
United States, 2020
High-Speed Slaughter Lines
United States, 2020
Shocking footage reveals the horrors of high-speed chicken slaughter, such as fully conscious birds hung upside down by their legs on a rapid live-shackle line and sick chickens thrown away like trash or kept on the line for slaughter.
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Live Animal Export 2
Brazil, 2020
Live Animal Export 2
Brazil, 2020
This new live-export investigation reveals animals loaded onto ships with electric prods before traveling for weeks across the Atlantic Ocean. After an agonizing journey, many arrive at the destination country to be brutally killed—workers slash their legs and stab these fully conscious animals.
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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.
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
High-Speed Slaughter Lines
United States, 2020
Shocking footage reveals the horrors of high-speed chicken slaughter, such as fully conscious birds hung upside down by their legs on a rapid live-shackle line and sick chickens thrown away like trash or kept on the line for slaughter.
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High-Speed Slaughter Lines
United States, 2020
High-Speed Slaughter Lines
United States, 2020
Shocking footage reveals the horrors of high-speed chicken slaughter, such as fully conscious birds hung upside down by their legs on a rapid live-shackle line and sick chickens thrown away like trash or kept on the line for slaughter.
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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 Farms
Mexico, 2020
Undercover footage of egg farms in Mexico, taken at seven facilities in Nuevo León, Yucatán, and Jalisco, Mexico. The video exposes horrific animal cruelty and significant public health threats.
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Egg Factory Farms
Mexico, 2020
Egg Factory Farms
Mexico, 2020
Undercover footage of egg farms in Mexico, taken at seven facilities in Nuevo León, Yucatán, and Jalisco, Mexico. The video exposes horrific animal cruelty and significant public health threats.
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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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Live Animal Export 2
Brazil, 2020
This new live-export investigation, the second released by Mercy For Animals, reveals animals loaded onto ships with electric prods before traveling for weeks across the Atlantic Ocean. After an agonizing journey, many arrive at the destination country to be brutally killed—workers slash their legs and stab these fully conscious animals.
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Live Animal Export 2
Brazil, 2020
Live Animal Export 2
Brazil, 2020
This new live-export investigation, the second released by Mercy For Animals, reveals animals loaded onto ships with electric prods before traveling for weeks across the Atlantic Ocean. After an agonizing journey, many arrive at the destination country to be brutally killed—workers slash their legs and stab these fully conscious animals.
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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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Municipal Slaughter 5
México, 2017
Municipal Slaughter 5
México, 2017
TV and film icon, Eugenio Derbez, narrates this disturbing new video taken inside a government-owned slaughterhouse that exposes animals painfully shocked, beaten, and cut open while still able to feel pain.
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Municipal Slaughter 4
México, 2017
Municipal Slaughter 4
México, 2017
Appalling footage, never seen by the public, exposes animals shocked, dragged, and cut open while fully conscious and able to feel pain.
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Municipal Slaughter 3
México, 2016
Municipal Slaughter 3
México, 2016
Narrated by TV and film icon Eugenio Derbez, this graphic video exposes animals cruelly shocked with electric prods, beaten over the head with sledgehammers, dragged to the kill floor, and viciously stabbed—while fully conscious and able to feel pain.
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Municipal Slaughter 2
México, 2016
Municipal Slaughter 2
México, 2016
MFA’s undercover investigator speaks out against the shocking animal abuse she uncovered at Mexico’s government-owned slaughterhouses, including fully conscious animals violently hooked in the mouth, strung upside down, and stabbed in the throat and chest while screaming out in pain.
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Municipal Slaughter 1
México, 2016
Municipal Slaughter 1
México, 2016
Graphic video footage inside Mexico’s government-owned slaughterhouses exposes animals painfully shocked in the eyes, hoisted upside down by chains, and bellowing in distress while choking on their own blood and vomit—all while still conscious and able to feel pain.
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Reichardt Duck Farm
California, 2014
Reichardt Duck Farm
California, 2014
At Reichardt Duck Farm, one of the largest duck factory farms in the country, workers burn the bills of baby birds with searing metal and leave ducks painfully trapped in cage wire or manure pits to slowly suffer and die from lack of food and water.
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Markets of Misery
Mississippi, 2014
Markets of Misery
Mississippi, 2014
Charges of a total of 49 counts of criminal animal cruelty were filed against 10 workers at two livestock auctions in Mississippi after an MFA investigator documented sheep, goats, pigs, and other animals being kicked, shocked, beaten, dragged by their ears and tails, and deprived of food and water.
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Hudson Valley Foie Gras
New York, 2013
Hudson Valley Foie Gras
New York, 2013
Foie gras, "fatty liver," is produced by shoving pipes down the throats of ducks and force-feeding them until their livers swell up to 10 times the normal size. This investigation exposes this violent and often fatal practice at an Amazon.com foie gras supplier.
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Ontario Livestock Sales
California, 2012
Ontario Livestock Sales
California, 2012
After this investigation exposed an ongoing pattern of extreme cruelty and neglect at one of the oldest and largest livestock auctions in Southern California, including sick or injured animals left to suffer and slowly die, the owner and several workers were convicted of criminal cruelty to animals.
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Illegal Slaughter Operation
California, 2011
Illegal Slaughter Operation
California, 2011
This hidden-camera footage led to the arrest and conviction of Roberto Celedon for criminal acts related to his illegal slaughter operation in Los Angeles County. During a raid of the facility, animal control officers seized dozens of sick and injured animals who are now rehabilitated at a sanctuary.
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