Investigator Diaries

We entered the dairy. In the nights that followed we documented the horrors as we uncovered the full spectrum that is dairy, and the lifelong cruelty the calves and their mothers faced, their sad and broken lives, from farm to saleyard to slaughterhouse... In 2017, investigators Ruth and Sarah documented the lives of dairy cows and calves, from farm, to saleyard to slaughterhouse.

We met Maisie in the holding pens at Benalla slaughterhouse. Out of the dozens of pigs and piglets crowded together in the mud and filth,...

Sometimes out of the darkest of places come stories of hope. But our time at Snowtown had no happy endings. On our final night investigating...

This is Felix. A beautiful baby boy I was privileged to meet and spend time with. Felix was healthy. Apart from being malnourished and weak...

We spent two weeks installing cameras and capturing footage at Menzel’s Meats in South Australia. Each night, we spent time with animals in the...

What stays with me? The sad eyes of the breeding female pigs as they look up at yet another human; who won’t free them...

You have arrived into this world; and I am witnessing the only experiences you will have. I am here to capture this moment, this is...

I couldn’t tell you the last time I have been profoundly impacted, by watching footage of animals being killed. I have watched hours of...

Inside a slaughterhouse, in the waiting pens. It was the first-time on a night out investigating that I have ever cried on. I walked around...