OUR Investigations and Exposés

In just a few years, Animal Justice Project has become a leader in the field of undercover investigations. By continuing to show the oppression on farms and in slaughterhouses, whilst advocating for animal freedom, animal industries can no longer claim there are “a few bad apples” and public perceptions are changing. Animal Justice Project uses undercover investigations to help people understand the vital role they can play in social change, as well as pressure law-makers and local authorities to enforce a failing legal system for farmed animals.
"Through covert surveillance footage, animal suffering can be witnessed at first hand by the viewer. Seeing such footage educates people who can then make informed choices about their diets and lifestyle. Covert investigations are essential to aid social change, I am very proud to play my part in this process.”
Animal Justice Project Investigator

2025

northmoor farm: a cranswick plc pig breeding farm, lincolnshire
We went undercover inside a Cranswick pig mega-farm housing 6,000 pigs and piglets at any one time. What we uncovered was worse than we could have imagined – a grim reflection of the wider pig farming industry.
The Arlarming Reality of Dairy: Lowfields Farm Mega Dairy in North Yorkshire
We sent an undercover investigator to infiltrate an Arla mega dairy. Lowfields Farm is a zero-grazing 24-hour operation where the cows are never allowed to go outside. Instead, they spend their entire lives confined and milked until they’re too exhausted to go on.

2024

BOAR SEMEN 'COLLECTION': INNOVIS 'WORKING STUD' BOAR FARM, NORFOLK
We turned our cameras to a hidden part of the pig industry that’s never been seen filmed. Innovis is a semen ‘collection’ farm where boars spend years in desolate concrete pens, exploited for their reproductive abilities.
RSPCA ASSURED pig slaughter: c&K meats pig slaughterhouse in suffolk
We infiltrated a large pig slaughterhouse that kills up to 7,000 pigs a week – C&K Meats – revealing horrors silenced by a smokescreen of welfare assurances.
ROTTEN - Cage-freE Exposed Part 2: distress and death at free-range farms supplying M&S and 'Happy Egg'
In a continuation of our laying hen series, we are targeting the 'highest welfare’ free-range eggs in UK supermarkets including Marks and Spencer’s own label eggs and the famous Happy Egg brand. Once again the farms we visited were associated with the British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA), proving once again that associations, governing bodies, assurance labels and marketing campaigns only serve to appease consumers and mask the reality for farmed animals.
RSPCA ASSURED CHICKEN HATCHERY: horrors at annyalla chicks ltd in wrexham
We went undercover inside the UK’s largest independent hatchery, Annyalla Chicks Ltd, at their site in Boston, Lincolnshire, to reveal the secretive slaughter of newborn chicks. The company hatches over three million chicks a week on an industrial scale before shipping these tiny animals to farms across the nation. A short and miserable life of oppression awaits them on-farm, but the pain and suffering begins in the hatchery.
ROTTEN - Cage-freE Exposed: Suffering at RSPCA Assured Free-range farms nationwide
As part of our work on laying hens, we documented the suffering of hens incarcerated in farms under the highest level of so-called ‘welfare’ label that the UK egg industry has to offer. We infiltrated farms associated with directors at the British Free Range Egg Producers Association (BFREPA). Once again we showed that awards, accolades and assurance schemes mean nothing to farmed animals.

2023

GRESSINGHAM’S DUCKS: CAUGHT FOR SLAUGHTER
By exposing the violent process of catching ducks ('depopulation') for commercial meat, we revealed the aggressive behaviours exhibited by Keyo’s workers, a specialist catching company. The ducks were roughly crated and transported to Gressingham Foods'slaughterhouse in Suffolk, where they were killed.
ROTTEN - Chicken catching 'gangs': rspca assured chicken catchers
As part of our investigation series on laying hens, we exposed for the first time ever the secretive nocturnal world of chicken catcher ‘gangs’ who used violence, fear and intimidation to ‘depopulate’ hens at their ‘end of lay’, which is when they are deemed no use to the egg industry. We placed our investigator onto a catching team alongside RSPCA Assured ‘chicken processing specialists’, AD Harvey, to uncover The Foul Truth about this hidden industry.
ROTTEN - 'Enriched' cage farm: Bird Bros egg farm in lincolnshire
In our new undercover investigation series on laying hens, we are cracking open a Rotten industry. In the first investigation, our undercover investigator infiltrated ‘Sunny Farm’, a colony cage farm, run by East Anglia’s largest egg producer, Bird Bros. What we found inside was far from sunny.

2022

MORRISONS’ SLAUGHTERHOUSE: WOODHEAD BROS ABATTOIR in spalding
Using an undercover worker, we infiltrated a Morrisons’ slaughterhouse, Woodhead Bros in Spalding, Lincolnshire. Using innovative covert techniques, we filmed the terrifying final moments that cows and pigs face inside the lairage and on the kill floor.
Red Tractor assured pig farm: bickmarsh hall farm in warwickshire
Filmed over a three-month period, the suffering of pigs at Bickmarsh Hall farm in Warwickshire was severe. From nursing pigs being confined in barren cages for weeks at a time, to tiny piglets discarded amongst  the decomposing bodies of others inside waste bins. This standard UK pig farm reveals the spine-chilling reality behind 'pork and 'sausages'.
rspca assured pig transport: peddars pigs rearing and transport company
125 hours of footage, over a two-month period revealed the abuse inflicted upon pigs and tiny piglets by Peddars Pigs’ workers. Peddars is an RSPCA Assured haulage company providing rearing and transportation services to the pig industry. Our undercover footage revealed a culture of violence towards animals.
Award-winning goat dairy farm: Delamere Dairy farm in skipton, north yorkshire
Over a two-month period we investigated major goat dairy brand, Delamere Dairy, at their flagship farm, Pasture House Farm in North Yorkshire. Producing over 40 million award-winning 'products' every year, this is one of the UK’s largest goat dairies. So much so that Delamere Dairy is a household name - with cheese, yoghurt and milk in all major supermarkets. Confining over 2,000 goats, the owner, Phil Ormerod, is also the Director for the Milking Goat Association, a body representing UK commercial goat farmers.

2021

Organic Dairy Farm: Bath Soft Cheese organic dairy in bath, somerset
The seven-month investigation documented cruel and shocking practices at a multi award-winning organic dairy farm in Bath, Somerset. What we filmed was a far cry from the picture painted by this farm and showed that organic still means pain, suffering and death for cows and calves in the dairy industry.
Small slaughterhouse: G. & G. b.  Hewitt abattoir in chester
Some of the most powerful hidden-camera footage we've ever obtained was captured across two months inside at a Cheshire-based slaughterhouse that had been deemed ‘generally satisfactory’ by the Government’s own food watchdog, Food Standards Agency. Our pictures and video made it to multiple news sites in the UK and showed the public what slaughter looks like.
Calf Trade and Slaughter: Oaklands Livestock Centre and Hewitt's Abattoir & the Buitelaar group ‘Collection Centre’
An extensive undercover investigation spanning five months at a dealer’s yard where tiny, ‘reject’ male dairy calves, labelled “mongrels” and “grass rats” by some farmers, were collected from farms and markets before being sent to slaughter, as well as the killing of calves inside an abattoir. In a separate investigation, our team filmed inside a calf ‘collection centre’ in Wrexham operated by Buitelaar Group.

2020

Beef rearing farm and 'veal' farm: Berryfields Farm and Badgers Cross in northamptonshire
Description Our undercover filming at a zero-grazing beef ‘mega farm’ in Daventry, Northamptonshire was the first of its kind in the UK. Not only did we film cows reared for beef at Berryfields Farm, which supplied major supermarkets, we also filmed young calves at a Somerset rearing farm, Badgers Cross, which was linked to Waitrose. The investigation at Berryfield revealed the fate of male ('bull') calves born on dairy farms who are not able to produce milk.here.
Duck Slaughter: Gressingham Foods slaughterhouse
For the first time ever, we placed cameras for 24 hours inside Gressingham Food’s huge slaughterhouse in Redgrave, Suffolk (the largest duck abattoir in the UK), This investigation inside the abattoir was featured in every major newspaper, reaching thousands of people and reveals mandatory CCTV and government audits inside UK slaughterhouses is failing to prevent animal cruelty and suffering.
Duck Farms: Gressingham Foods duck farms
We filmed for two months on Gressingham Foods duck farms in Thetford, Norfolk supplying Red Tractor Assured duck to Sainsbury’s, Waitrose, Tesco, Co-Op, ASDA and Morrisons.

2019

Pastures Poultry organic farm and abattoir
What we filmed is the shocking reality of so-called 'high-welfare' turkey farming – live plucking, a filthy, blood-drenched kill floor, and the scalding of live birds.
Free-Range Broiler Chickens: RSPCA-ASSURED chicken farms
Our hidden-camera footage revealed the horrible truth of what happens to RSPCA Assured, ‘high-welfare’ chickens behind closed doors.

OUR FIELD TEAM

Animal Justice Project undercover investigators put themselves at risk day and night to expose the reality for animals both on intensive and so-called ‘higher welfare’ farms. They help us show consumers the reality behind the labels and campaign for animal rights, appealing morality, fairness and justice, in a society where fellow animals (and nature) are seen as resources and property.

They are a highly skilled, specialist team with years of experience in field work. They gather intelligence using highly sophisticated, tried-and-tested methods and surveillance techniques. Their material is watertight and can be used for prosecutions in the courts. Animal Justice Project's undercover footage has been vital for several cases where law-breakers were held to account which has led to a kinder, fairer society that benefits all.
"We have to see them, show their hidden reality and expose industry lies.”
Animal Justice Project Investigator
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