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3/4 In some Red Tractor-assured factory farms I've found hundreds of severed piglet tails littering the floor. For a cruel practice that's supposed to be banned, it's surprisingly commonplace.

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2/4 The tail is sensitive, containing many nerve endings, blood vessels and vertebrae.

Shockingly, routine docking has been banned in the UK for almost twenty years, yet more than 70% of pigs farmed here, and perhaps as many as 85%, are mutilated in this way. It's a scandal.

Thank you so much, Cherry, and right back at you.

You have super-sleuth magic clothes-hunting powers!

That top is amazing!

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Congratulations to Director Iain Green and the whole team. The future's bright, and hopeful, because of people like you.

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All of the work I've done for animals since then - 15 years of filmmaking, photography and investigations - is a direct result of Animal Aid's campaigning. And I was reminded last night how grateful I am that this organisation exists in the world.

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I think that gives you a sense of how much impact they've been having recently.

But they also hold an extremely special place in my heart - it was their UK slaughterhouse investigation in 2009 which shocked me out of complacency and changed the trajectory of my life.

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as well as an overview of some recent campaign victories and glimpses of what I know will be an ambitious and successful 2025 for this extraordinary organisation.

This year, Animal Aid won the prestigious LUSH prize for their campaign to ban animal testing.

Thanks Jenny!

This sounds interesting! How aggravating would you say this is, for someone a little weary of politics?

I hope so, too. Giving KFC awards for a pledge they’ve now dropped seems somewhat grotesque, in hindsight.

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I hope consumers are wising up to the fact that you cannot rely on meat companies to care about animal welfare. You have to do that caring yourself, and make choices which reflect your values.

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with sow crates, with caged hens, and with so many of the routine mutilations that animals endure on farms.

Promises made, kudos received, promises broken. Every time.