Dairy Factory Farms (campaign video)

Campaign video for Farm Transparency Project's 2024-25 investigation into Australian dairy 'factory farms.'

In 2024 and 2025, Farm Transparency Project investigated five dairy factory farms in Victoria and NSW. These farms have been hailed as trailblazers by the dairy industry, with their conversion to zero graze farms applauded as innovation, rather than exploitation.

Like other forms of factory farming, dairy factories restrict cows from natural behaviour, such as grazing on grass and having access to open spaces to play and socialise. Instead, cows spend the majority of their lives standing on hard concrete eating grain, or being milked in an industrial milking parlour where their milk production is closely monitored. When it begins to slow, they are sent to the slaughterhouse. On intensive farms such as these, cows are often only 3 years old when they are killed.