Animal Rising to Release Factory Farm Footage in Legal Challenge to UK Government

British animal rights organization Animal Rising has announced it will release previously unseen footage from inside British factory farms on September 1, building a campaign around the claim that intensive animal agriculture operates in breach of existing animal welfare law. The organization is using the release to press the UK government for a firm commitment to end factory farming by 2040, alongside a fully funded roadmap for what it describes as a just transition to a more sustainable food system. A trailer for the footage was published on August 17, with the full material set to follow. The legal argument at the centre of the campaign Animal Rising frames its central question around legality rather than welfare alone, arguing that the evidence it has gathered … more