Investigations for farmed animals

In November 2016, we filmed at a so-called ‘free range’ and ‘RSPCA Assured’ farm operated by Bernard Matthews, finding animals with bloodied and infected head wounds.

In 2015, we filmed at Fridays Ltd. Two days after our investigation footage was submitted to the local council, Fridays Ltd were forced to withdraw a planning application for a new farm.

In November 2015, we investigated this Yorkshire farm and found conditions typical of farming chickens for meat: missing feathers, hock burns (caused by ammonia in their bedding), and birds collapsing under their own weight.

In December 2014, we exposed the casual brutality of ‘chicken catching’ where chickens are grabbed by their legs, four at a time, to be thrown into transport crates destined for the slaughterhouse.

In December 2014, we visited a turkey farm where we filmed birds with missing feathers and sore skin, and one with a large growth.

In March 2013, we visited three farms owned by members of the National Farmers Union Poultry Board and found the dead and decomposing bodies of chickens.

In 2013, we revealed the reality of ‘enriched’ cages, also known as ‘colony’ cages. Introduced to replace battery cages, our footage shows that there is virtually no difference: hens in ‘enriched’ cages have less space than a beer mat.

In January 2025, we used a drone to capture the scale of US-style ‘calf hutches’ at Cobb Farm in Dorset. The footage was featured in our anti-dairy television and cinema advert, which aired throughout February and March 2025.

In October 2013, we visited three veal farms in the UK and found dead calves, individuals ankle-deep in slurry, and sickness.

In 2007, we filmed secretly inside four ‘zero grazing’ dairy operations. We found animals crowded together in the gloom, and evidence of emaciation and disease. At one farm, two cows and a young calf had been shot and dumped outside.

In February 2016, we visited a series of farms run by the same company. All revealed nightmarish scenes of filth, squalor, and animal suffering, including dead bodies left out in the open and evidence of antibiotic use.

We visited three pig farms all belonging to Bedfordia Farms Ltd, which is endorsed by the Red Tractor scheme. Investigators found injured animals, others wheezing and gasping for breath, and a dying piglet frothing at the mouth.

In June 2013, we revisited a Somerset farm that we’d previously investigated in 2008. Little had improved: investigators found bins full of rotting, maggot-infested bodies and routine tail docking, which is illegal.

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