Latest Investigation
Published: Wed 7 May 2025
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... read more
Campaign: Dairy Factory Farms
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
6 May
Dairy Factory Farms
27 Apr
Statement on Palestine and the Animal Rights Forum (2024)
10 Apr
INVASIVE - the story of Australia's unwanted species
11 Oct
The Game Meats Trial so far - #RighttoKnow
Media releases
7 May
Animal advocacy groups target dairy 'factory farms' in new campaign
1 May
Animals kicked, beaten and killed while conscious at western Victorian slaughterhouse
16 Apr
Ducks killed without stunning at Sydney slaughterhouse
14 Mar
'Stabbed and decapitated while conscious': cruelty reported at seven QLD slaughterhouses
Campaign News
THE CHRONICLE: 9 Apr
Yangan’s Carey Bros Abattoir investigated after kill floor footage released
ABC NEWS: 15 Mar
Activists who became a political target have sparked a government probe of slaughterhouses
COUNTRY NEWS: 3 Feb
Animal activist charged over piggery footage
HERALD SUN: 31 Jan
Activist charged over surveillance which led to footage of Bradley O’Reilly allegedly raping pig
HERALD SUN: 29 Jan
Goulburn Valley piggeries accused of animal cruelty by Farm Transparency Project
SEYMOUR TELEGRAPH: 29 Jan
Piggery invasions by activist group
SHEPPARTON NEWS: 28 Jan
Local piggeries targeted by animal activists | Shepparton News
9NEWS: 21 Jan
Dead piglets dropped on premier's office doorstep in animal cruelty protest
SKY NEWS: 21 Jan
Vegan activists dump dead piglets outside Victorian Premier Jacinta Allan's office in protest of 'filthy...
NEWS.COM.AU: 21 Jan
Farm Transparency Project protest pig welfare outside Victorian government building
HERALD SUN: 21 Jan
Vegan activists dump dozens of dead piglets outside Premier Jacinta Allan’s office
RIVERINE HERALD: 13 Nov
