Kōrero with Abigail Penny, Animal Equality UK Executive Director

Animal Matters

On this week's episode of Animal Matters, we chat with Abigail Penny, the UK Executive Director at Animal Equality.

Animal Equality is an international animal protection organisation, and they’re most well known for their undercover investigations. Those investigations recently fed into a BBC Panorama documentary that aired in February, which exposed the UK’s dairy industry. The documentary sparked considerable debate in the UK thanks in large part to the damning undercover footage, gathered by Animal Equality. Not only did it expose examples of cruel and illegal behaviour, but it also showcased the inherently cruel farming practices that are considered normal, industry-standard behaviour.

• BBC Panorama documentary - "A Cow's Life: The True Cost of Milk?"
• A short edit of Animal Equality's undercover footage used in the documentary can be found on their website.