Harley McDonald-Eckersall

Harley is the Strategy & Campaigns Director at Farm Transparency Project. 

Articles

• Illegal slaughter of ex-racehorses uncovered in Victoria

  Thu 29 October 2026, 7:01pm

  Farm Transparency Project's latest investigation has found that Peter Loffel has been buying up ex-racehorses and illegally shooting them on his residential property in Victoria.
• The Lies of Josh's Rainbow Eggs

  Thu 2 April 2026, 4:23pm

  In December 2025, we released damning allegations from two ex-workers at Josh's Rainbow Eggs (JRE) claiming that, during their employment on the farm, they experienced demeaning conditions - including being...
• Eggs Uncaged - The reality of 'ethical' eggs

  Sun 1 February 2026, 2:56pm

  Free-range, cage-free - we went behind the labels to expose the real cost of 'ethical' eggs.  A sick hen at South Gippsland Eggs (Farm Transparency Project, 2025) Roughly 55% of the 19...
• Demeaning conditions and animal cruelty: ex-workers speak up about Josh's Rainbow Eggs

  Wed 3 December 2025, 1:03pm

  If you'd asked me at the start of the year to tell you about Josh's Rainbow Eggs, you likely would have been met with a blank stare. After quitting eggs (...
• Newsflash: Violent industry uses violence towards its critics

  Tue 21 October 2025, 5:56pm

  Most people who have taken part in a protest will be able to tell you that, the vast majority of the time, they are peaceful events. You show up, hold...
• Dairy Factory Farms

  Tue 6 May 2025, 5:49pm

  Did you know… Australian dairy cows are being factory farmed.  When many Australians think of dairy they imagine contented cows grazing on green grass in wide open paddocks. This idyllic...
• INVASIVE - the story of Australia's unwanted species

  Thu 10 April 2025, 12:13pm

  For hundreds of thousands of animals who are killed for food every year in Australian slaughterhouses, their lives did not begin on a farm. Their stories began somewhere which seems...
• The Game Meats Trial so far - #RighttoKnow

  Fri 11 October 2024, 6:44pm

  If you've been following Farm Transparency Project's social media over the past couple of months, it won't be news to you that we are in the midst of a ...
• Inside the piggery of the VFF Pig Council President

  Mon 3 June 2024, 7:58pm

  During the public hearings for the Victorian inquiry into pig welfare and in the weeks following, the President of the Victorian Farmers Federation (VFF) Pig Council, David Wright, gave evidence...
• Four gas chambers in six months - our campaign continues

  Tue 18 July 2023, 8:07pm

  In June 2023 we investigated BMK Foods Slaughterhouse in Murray Bridge, South Australia, and captured footage inside their gas chamber. We met pigs hours before they were brutally killed and we...
• 2023 Dominion Animal Rights March

  Tue 25 April 2023, 1:07pm

  On April 8th 2023, hundreds of animal rights activists took to the streets of Melbourne to mark the five year anniversary of Dominion.
• Week of Action - April 2023

  Wed 19 April 2023, 6:19pm

  From the 2nd - 7th April, 2023 Farm Transparency Project organised a week of actions to build momentum around our campaign to ban gas chambers, which had launched at the end...
• Activists shut down Benalla Slaughterhouse and chain themselves to the gas chamber

  Sat 15 April 2023, 12:09pm

  On April 13th 2023 25 activists from Farm Transparency Project shutdown Benalla slaughterhouse for over 7 hours. We chained ourselves inside the gas chamber and race, preventing any pigs from being killed while...
• Exposing the pork industry's biggest secret

  Mon 27 March 2023, 7:48pm

  In early 2023, our investigators captured footage from inside Victoria's three largest pig slaughterhouses, revealing the terrifying final moments of pigs subjected to deadly gas chambers. This is the story of...