Investigations

WhattheIndustryDoesn'tWantYoutoSee

Long-form summaries of the most consequential undercover footage and regulatory findings inside industrial animal agriculture — sourced from Mercy For Animals, L214, Animal Equality, Open Cages, Direct Action Everywhere and government inspectors.

Why this matters

Footage that changed laws, and the systems that resist it

Every major welfare reform in the last fifty years — gestation crate bans, battery cage bans, fur-farming prohibitions, the EU recognition of cephalopod sentience, the end of chick maceration in France and Germany — has been driven by investigative footage that the industry spent decades insisting did not exist or was not representative.

The six investigations below are our editorial summaries of the most important reporting, with primary sources linked. They are not the worst of what has been documented. They are simply the most representative.

The reporting

Six investigations