Factory Farming is Messed Up
We hand over our money and in return get disease, animal suffering, contaminated food, and rivers full of shit. The system exists only because Big Ag lies. It lies about animal welfare. It lies about environmental destruction. Like a coercive controller, it lies about how much we need it and tries to convince us that we cannot do without it. Project Slingshot exists to reveal the truth and to urge the public not to buy their lies.
Did you know…
In the UK, 85% of farmed animals are confined in factory farms.
Over 1.2 billion land animals are slaughtered in the UK each year.
In the UK around 95% of chickens raised for meat are fast-growing breeds.
Why Project Slingshot
Factory farming didn’t take over the global food system. It swallowed it whole. We’re a global crew of citizens, designers, investigators, filmmakers, and researchers who refuse to look away.
Support Our Appeal
To End Factory Farming by 2040
“What can you say about a society whose food production must be hidden from public view? In which the factory farms and slaughterhouses supplying much of our diet must be guarded like arsenals to prevent us from seeing what happens there?”
“Factory farming [is] amongst the worst atrocities ever perpetrated by humanity.”
“Factory farming is the greatest moral catastrophe of our time and also the most neglected one. The algorithm suppresses it, politicians avoid it, and corporations have spent decades making sure you don’t think too hard about what’s on your plate.”
“We’re killing nine out of ten pigs in gas chambers. The government knows it causes pain and fear. The industry knows we’d object if we knew. So they made sure we didn’t.”
“We’ve been told for decades that CO2 gas chambers are humane. The pigs screaming inside them tell a different story. I don’t buy it. The public doesn’t buy it. Westminster shouldn’t either. Ban them.”
“Animal factories are one more sign of the extent to which our technological capacities have advanced faster than our ethics.”
“Long-hidden behind a veil of closed-door secrecy, misleading labelling and opaque government handouts, factory farming will come to be seen as the cruellest folly of our times. Like the slave trade, we will wonder how we let it happen.”
“Industrial farming is the single biggest destructive force on the planet today. Both in terms of what’s happening to the earth as well as in terms of what’s happening to society.”
“Animals are the main victims of history, and the treatment of domesticated animals in industrial farms is perhaps the worst crime in history.”
“Project Slingshot is doing exactly what needs to be done: pulling back the curtain on factory farming so that people can make informed choices. That moment of awareness is what changes minds.”
