Latest Investigation
Published: Thu 5 Sep 2024
In June, investigators from Farm Transparency Project installed hidden cameras at Cedar Meats, capturing the handling and slaughter of thousands of animals, including newborn lambs and kids born in the holding pens of the slaughterhouse. The footage shows workers writing and drawing on the bodies of sheep and goats with blood, animals appearing to have their throats slit while fully conscious, goats and sheep struggling while soaked in the blood of others and even one mother goat giving birth in the stunning restraint, seconds before her throat is slit.
Our investigation revealed such an exhaustive volume of abuse, illegal and... read more
Our investigation revealed such an exhaustive volume of abuse, illegal and... read more
Virtual Tours
Using the latest in 360 camera technology, we've created groundbreaking interactive virtual tours of major Australian piggeries and slaughterhouses - and we've got more tours of other kinds of animal exploitation facilities on the way. This is industry transparency like you've never seen it before.
Experience what it's like for animals behind closed doors, in highly secretive farms where no members of the public are supposed to see.
Newest tour: EcoPiggery
View the toursFarm Transparency Map
Since 2010 we've been mapping animal exploitation facilities across Australia, including factory farms, slaughterhouses, knackeries, hatcheries, race training centres and more.
View the mapEditorials
11 Oct
The Game Meats Trial so far - #RighttoKnow
3 Jun
Inside the piggery of the VFF Pig Council President
25 Apr
'Free Olivia': Frequently Asked Questions
16 Apr
Tasmanian Dairy - History repeats
Media releases
24 Oct
Open letter to Prime Minister, signed by senator and state MPs, calls for independent regulation of animal slaughter
24 Oct
Open letter regarding inadequacy and corruption of abattoir regulator
5 Sep
Major Melbourne slaughterhouse under fire again for ‘deeply disturbing’ animal cruelty
14 Aug
Sheep and goats killed while conscious at ‘notorious’ Echuca slaughterhouse
Campaign News
THE AGE: 20 Oct
Test case could spell the end of abattoir gas chambers
THE WEEKLY TIMES: 10 Sep
Pig group president David Wright to remain despite ‘substantiated’ complaint
THE WEEKLY TIMES: 5 Sep
No injunction against slaughter video would ‘invite anarchy’
THE GUARDIAN: 3 Sep
Slaughterhouse video taken by 'extreme' animal activists amounts to 'ongoing trespass', federal court told
SHEPP NEWS: 15 Aug
Cruelty claim at Echuca abattoir
HERALD SUN: 15 Aug
State and federal government to probe Echuca’s MD Foods over animal cruelty allegations
DAILY MAIL: 12 Aug
Man who allegedly sexually assaulted a pig is pictured for the first time - after hideous 'pants...
THE WEEKLY TIMES: 9 Aug
Victorian abattoir in legal battle against slaughter video
YAHOO NEWS: 6 Aug
Man accused of X-rated act with pig
HERALD SUN: 24 Jul
Calls for truck safety crackdown following grisly Melbourne livestock truck crash
HERALD SUN: 24 Jul
Court: Bradley O’Reilly, alleged pig rapist, pleaded guilty to strangling woman multiple times
BIG RIGS: 24 Jul
Cattle injured as loaded livestock truck crashes into Melbourne bridge
Take Action
Save the Kids at Cedar Meats!
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Open letter regarding inadequacy and corruption of abattoir regulator
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Tell the Victorian government to protect Victorian pigs
PETITION
Tell PrimeSafe - Stop the cruelty at Wangaratta slaughterhouse
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Tell the Victorian Government to prevent further sexual abuse of pigs
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End dairy deception in schools
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