Crows Nest - Campaign Video

In 2024, a team of investigators installed hidden cameras at Crows Nest slaughterhouse, to record the handling and slaughter of goats, cows, sheep, pigs and calves at the property. The cameras recorded as these animals were brutally killed, with some maintaining consciousness for minutes after their throats were slit. Small animals, including bobby calves, sheep, piglets and goats, are paralysed with an electric stunner in a ‘kill pen,’ where their throats are then slit. Multiple animals were seen to continue struggling and blinking as they slowly bled out.

Cows and larger pigs are shot in the head with a handheld bolt-gun, to immobilise them before they are tipped out, hung by the legs and their throat is slit. One night, we returned to retrieve our hidden cameras to find one cow who had been locked in a small box in the race. Desperate and afraid, they struggled to escape the metal box, covered in sweat and foaming at the mouth.