Can you imagine being outside with no shelter in -10°F and watching your friends die around you? That was Helen’s life when DxE investigators found her at a supposedly “humane” Whole Foods lamb farm in Colorado. Helen was shivering in the snow, but activists carried her out, and today, she is warm and safe at a sanctuary.

Factory farms are roasting pigs alive in mass killings due to COVID-19 -- and DxE captured the evidence on hidden camera footage. The Intercept reported on this horrific method of mass extermination and on the great lengths the industry is going to in order to deem this practice as humane. Luckily, activists were able to rescue a piglet, named Gilly by a whistleblower employee. She is now safe, happy, and free at a sanctuary.

Activists rescued a hen named Diane from a crowded, filthy egg farm, in the midst of the Covid-19 pandemic. Despite numerous documented links between animal agriculture and pandemics, politicians continue to refuse to acknowledge the dangers of animal agriculture, therefore slowing steps to end the violent industry and transition to a kinder future. With this investigation, activists continue to apply pressure on politicians and make a bold statement that our work to rescue animals and expose abuse will not be stopped.

Activists in San Diego spent a year documenting conditions on an egg farm to see if Proposition 2 was being enforced. They found horrific conditions inside, including extreme crowding and cages of rotting bodies. The rescuers brought Silver and Sedona to a sanctuary where they now live free from harm.

For the fourth annual Open Rescue Day, activists around the world rescued ducks, chickens and crabs. Open Rescue Day is celebrated every March 5th in commemoration of the first open rescue conducted on March 5th, 1993, by Animal Liberation Victoria in Australia.

Activists rescued a pregnant chinchilla, Bridget, from a fur farm and saved her babies from becoming fur coats. Bridget died shortly after giving birth but Luna and Sol miraculously survived. Today, they are ambassadors for fur-bearing animals everywhere and are propelling fur bans across the world.