Slaughterhouses are extremely cruel and secretive, causing immense suffering to billions of domestic animals. Recent investigations have revealed the frequent abuse of animals in these facilities, exposing the truth to bring about positive change for animals.
Abuse and cruelty happen behind closed doors
Slaughterhouses are among the most cruel in the world, causing immense suffering to billions of domesticated animals that are exploited each year. These facilities are also some of the most secrethide their abuse behind closed doors that are difficult to open.
Fortunately, our investigators have broken down these walls, with our footage showing the reality of these gruesome locations where animal abuse seems to be the norm. and accepted.
Slaughterhouses around the world try to cover up the painful truth: Millions of livestock, including pigs, cows, chickens, ducks, rabbits, sheep and fish, are brutally killed every day. no compassion or acknowledgment of their suffering.
Anesthesia methods at slaughterhouses are often ineffective and cause animals excruciating pain—they are forced to watch others die before being killed themselves while fully awake.
In addition to this brutality, our investigations have revealed that abuse is common at slaughterhouses, where violations of animal health and welfare laws and regulations occur frequently.
Animal Equality has been investigating slaughterhouses worldwide for years, documenting the cruel practices the meat industry hides from consumers in Mexico, Brazil, Spain, the UK and Italy.
Recently and thanks to our work, public opinion is changing as more people want regulations that consider living conditions and treatment of animals that are prohibited from slaughter. Latest news from Mexico: After negotiations with Animal Equality, the Parliament of the State of Puebla passed a bill banning unregulated slaughterhouses and prohibiting the slaughter of animals without anesthesia.
Every day, the lives of farm animals are changing for the better—all made possible through your support of our mission. With your help, we will continue to publish important investigations that reveal what’s really happening in the food industry.
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In June 2021, Animal Equality published an investigation documenting what happened to pigs inside an Italian slaughterhouse, revealing the horrific cruelty the animals endured. . The investigation was filmed at the Zema Srl slaughterhouse in the province of Cremona, northern Italy—a facility known for its “Made in Italy excellence” marketing, both in Italy and abroad
In Brazil, Animal Equality announced an investigation in June 2021 into the country’s meat industry and its slaughter of pregnant cows. An accompanying public petition asks the Brazilian Ministry of Agriculture to ban the killing of pregnant animals. About half of all cows slaughtered in Brazil are heifers, and when they become pregnant, this causes extreme suffering for both the cows and their unborn calves.
In February 2021, Animal Equality released secret footage of a slaughterhouse run by the Scottish Salmon Company, a supplier to major UK supermarkets, as well as numerous international retailers, including including in the United States, executive. The pioneering footage, shot by an undercover investigator, is the first of its kind released in the UK and shows the brutal nature in which farmed salmon are killed.
In 2020, Animal Equality published two investigations into wet markets, revealing the brutality of these places. In April and in response to the COVID-19 pandemic, Animal Equality launched an international campaign to ban wet markets worldwide, with a petition addressed to the United Nations. The United Nations has surpassed 590,000 signatures.
In November, Animal Equality found that China’s wet markets were still operating. The footage was shot in China in May 2020, with the help of local activists and reveals that despite the pandemic, live animal markets continue to sell exotic animals, bringing together species that in the wild would never live dangerously together.
Animal Equality announced an investigation in November 2019, focusing on illegal Mexican backyard slaughterhouses and bringing to light the barbaric treatment and slaughter of sheep. and sheep.
Also in November 2019, an investigation from Animal Equality filmed inside a sheep slaughterhouse in the UK was published detailing the unimaginable cruelty and extreme suffering at Farmers. Fresh Wales, the supplier to customers in the UK and throughout mainland Europe.
An investigation of turkey slaughterhouses in Spain in 2019—a facility that slaughters 250,000 heads a week for export to the United States for Thanksgiving—shows the final hours of turkeys’ lives full of cruelty. More than a million turkeys died during packaging and shipping.
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