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Investigations

Ecoregion,Landscape,Plain,Plant,Grassland,Grass,Soil

Gadhimai Festival Ritual Animal Killing

April 2, 2025

Animal Equality investigators have documented the massive ritual slaughter of animals during the Gadhimai Festival in Southern Nepal, which takes place every five years. Using drones, the investigators captured the magnitude of the killing, which occurred despite a promise to ban animal sacrifice.

Nepal
Buffalos
Goats
Pigeons
Animal Sacrifice
Meat
2019
Food,Watch,Ingredient,Natural foods,Cuisine,Sweet potato,Dish

The Reality of the Turkey Industry

April 2, 2025

Animal Equality investigators documented hatcheries, factory farms and slaughterhouses that show standard practices that are also present in the United States. In the hatcheries, the birds who do not meet the standards required by the industry are discarded alive along with the eggshells. They will die in the trash containers, crushed soon after seeing the world for the first time.

Spain
Turkeys
Meat
Slaughterhouses
2019
Snout,farmed animal,Event,Herd,Soil,Landscape,Horn

Italy’s Buffalo Mozzarella Production

April 2, 2025

Animal Equality investigators documented the horrors of buffalo mozzarella production in Northern Italy that are hidden from public view. Video footage revealed buffalos being forced to live amid knee-deep feces alongside dead animals, and baby male buffaloes abandoned to die of hunger and thirst. We also collected testimonials of Italian citizens who revealed the environmental impact of these farms on the community.

Italy
Buffalos
Dairy
2019
Jaw,Mammal,Snout,Horn,Metal

Cows Abused, Suffered Prolonged Deaths in Italian Slaughterhouse

April 2, 2025

Animal Equality released footage shot inside a cow slaughterhouse in Lombardy, Italy. The investigators documented that slaughter was often not performed in compliance with regulations, with video footage showing workers mistreating cows by pushing, pulling, violently hitting, inadequately stunning, and slaughtering them while still conscious and able to feel pain. Our investigation led to a petition asking for legal reform of the meat industry in Italy.


Italy
Cows
Meat
Slaughterhouses
2019
Bird,Hand,Mammal,Beak,Feather,Wing

Chickens Endlessly Suffer at Artisinal Slaughterhouses

April 2, 2025

In Italy, Animal Equality released new footage about the slaughter of chickens by artisanal butchers, which often takes place without stunning and forces the animals to suffer endlessly.

Italy
Chickens
Meat
Slaughterhouses
2019
Jacket,Event,Midnight,Team

Animal Equality, With Italy’s National Media Outlet, Exposed Italian Slaughterhouse Cruelty

April 2, 2025

For four months Animal Equality Italy’s investigation team, along with Tg2 journalist and host Piergiorgio Giacovazzo, made visits to a pig farm in the Northern Italian region of Lombardy. Despite the region’s animal welfare laws, we found that the thousands of pigs living on the farm were being subjected to extreme confinement, filth, untreated wounds, and abuse, including a worker who killed a pig by throwing the animal against a wall. We started a petition urging the Minister of Agricultural Policies to close this farm and improve oversight of all farms in the area. 

Italy
Pigs
Meat
Slaughterhouses
2019
Human body,Automotive design,Stairs,Art,Companion dog,Snout,Automotive lighting

Suffering and Agony Inside Italian Pig Slaughterhouses

April 2, 2025

Animal Equality Italy released a horrifying video from within a pig slaughterhouse in Lombardy, Italy. Terrified pigs tried to escape were gouged with electric prods. Many animals were not stunned properly and were still conscious as they were hung upside down by their legs and slaughtered. with scenes shot inside an Italian slaughterhouse showing the brutal killing of pigs. We’ve collected the support and signatures of over 140 thousand Italian citizens who have asked for change and new reform legislation regarding animal slaughter, and we’re using this footage to push for the installation of closed-circuit television cameras in all Italian slaughterhouses. 

Italy
Pigs
Meat
Slaughterhouses
2019
Brown,Plant,Sky,Natural landscape,Land lot,Bedrock,Grass

Amazon Rainforest Deforestation

April 2, 2025

After the devastating wildfires decimated the Amazon Rainforest, Animal Equality Brazil sent investigators to Northern Brazil to document the increased deforestation of the Amazon rainforest and its connection to animal agriculture. Cattle farming is mostly responsible for deforestation, with fires set to turn forests into pasturelands for cows or soy plantations to grow feed for animals raised for food. Our footage shows that the devastation of the Amazon rainforest for animal agriculture is extreme and far-reaching. 

Brazil
Cows
Dairy
Meat
2019
Yellow,Event,Whiskers,Felidae,Fashion accessory,Metal

Ducks and Geese Force-Fed for Cruel Foie Gras

April 2, 2025

Animal Equality investigators visited a foie gras farm to witness the production of the cruel ‘delicacy’ first hand. To our amazement, many farms in France offer public tours, open to families. We were welcomed onto one and filmed ducks and geese suffering severely in barren, wire cages and terrified birds struggling while being ruthlessly force fed with metal tubes. If the cruelty we filmed on this farm is the most humane way that foie gras can be produced, then it clearly has no place in a compassionate society. Over 100,000 people have asked for a ban in the United Kingdom.

France
Ducks
Geese
Foie Gras
2019
Bird,White,Beak,Ducks, geese and swans,Waterfowl,Feather

Turkeys Eaten Alive on Award-Winning Farm

April 2, 2025

Animal Equality released footage showing extreme suffering and cannibalism on an award-winning farm in the United Kingdom, Grove Smith Turkeys Ltd, which supplies turkey high-end retailers, local butcher shops and pubs. Filmed by our investigators in late 2018 at Hubbard’s Farm in Essex – Grove Smith Turkeys’ main site – the shocking footage shows birds unable to walk being eaten alive by flockmates, birds with severely infected wounds left untreated, and dozens of birds left to rot among the living, some for so long they had decomposed into skeletons.

United Kingdom
Turkeys
Meat
2019