{"id":520573,"date":"2026-06-05T19:14:44","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:14:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/520573\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T19:14:44","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T19:14:44","slug":"meat-companies-say-theyll-change-after-investigations-but-almost-never-do","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/520573\/","title":{"rendered":"Meat companies say they\u2019ll change after investigations but almost never do."},"content":{"rendered":"<ul class=\"duet--article--unordered-list _10sa9omi uyby7v0 pn04iq1 _1a70pe7\">\n<li class=\"uyby7v1\">In 2019, Animal Outlook \u2014 an animal protection nonprofit \u2014 exposed cruelty at a salmon hatchery in Maine. The company apologized and committed to reforms.<\/li>\n<li class=\"uyby7v1\">But in 2025, Animal Outlook re-investigated and documented similar behavior and welfare problems.<\/li>\n<li class=\"uyby7v1\">This is a familiar pattern: Nonprofits investigate, the company apologizes and promises to change, yet follow-up investigations reveal continued abuse.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">In 2019, Erin Wing worked for nearly three months at a salmon hatchery in Maine that\u2019s owned and operated by Cooke Aquaculture, the world\u2019s largest privately held seafood company. As a hatchery technician, she helped to raise millions of delicate salmon eggs into salmon juveniles. From there, they were transported to Cooke\u2019s fish farms off the coast of Maine, where they were fattened up to be slaughtered and sold under the brand name True North Seafood at grocery stores across the Northeastern US.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">But Wing had a secret: She was there undercover, wearing a hidden camera on behalf of the animal protection nonprofit Animal Outlook. During her time at Cooke\u2019s hatchery, she <a href=\"https:\/\/animaloutlook.org\/investigations\/aquaculture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">documented<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"duet--article--unordered-list _10sa9omi uyby7v0 pn04iq1\">\n<li class=\"uyby7v1\">Workers culling diseased fish by repeatedly striking them against the sides of tanks and stomping on their heads<\/li>\n<li class=\"uyby7v1\">Live fish left in buckets to suffocate or be crushed to death by other fish<\/li>\n<li class=\"uyby7v1\">Fish overcrowded into tanks, some of them born with spinal deformities or dying from painful fungal diseases that ate at their faces<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">Shortly after Animal Outlook released a <a href=\"https:\/\/animaloutlook.org\/investigations\/aquaculture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">video<\/a> of the investigation, Cooke Aquaculture CEO Glenn Cooke apologized.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">\u201cAs a family company, we place animal welfare high in our operating standards and endeavor to raise our animals with optimal care and consideration of best practice,\u201d he wrote in a <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20191216030226\/https:\/\/www.cookeseafood.com\/2019\/10\/07\/statement-from-glenn-cooke-regarding-fish-handling-at-a-cooke-aquaculture-hatchery-in-maine\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">statement<\/a>. \u201cI am very sorry that this has happened.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">Maine\u2019s department of agriculture investigated the hatchery but didn\u2019t file any charges because Cooke had committed to retraining its employees and updating its facility management plan, among other measures.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">But it appears that its promised reforms didn\u2019t stick. In 2025, Animal Outlook sent a second investigator into the same hatchery and recently released a<a href=\"https:\/\/animaloutlook.org\/investigations\/cooke-aquaculture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> second expos\u00e9<\/a>, this time finding similar behavior and welfare issues.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">To Animal Outlook, it didn\u2019t come as a surprise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">\u201cI would\u2019ve been more surprised had we seen the conditions improved demonstrably for these animals,\u201d Ben Williamson, executive director of Animal Outlook, told me. \u201cWe know that fundamentally crowding this many animals in these kinds of tanks is going to lead to welfare problems. Treating these animals as commodities is going to lead to cruelty.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">That cynicism is the product of hard-won experience. Animal protection groups have conducted nearly 200 investigations into US farms raising chickens, pigs, cows, turkeys, and fish, gathering a staggering amount of evidence on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/2022\/3\/9\/22967328\/animal-cruelty-laws-state-federal-exemptions-pennsylvania-martin-farms-dairy-calves-dehorning\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">standard, yet inhumane, practices and living conditions<\/a> and often documenting malicious cruelty along the way.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">In some instances, investigations have led to companies making substantive changes, such as phasing out small cages for pigs and chickens. But like with Cooke Aquaculture, most farms and companies promise to make reforms after they\u2019ve been exposed, only for follow-up investigations to reveal continued abuse and miserable living conditions. This pattern highlights the limitations of such investigations, which have proven essential to building our understanding of conditions on factory farms but insufficient to significantly improve them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">Though, they reveal that, for much of the livestock industry, cruelty is the norm. What that means is that, in the absence of government oversight and federal animal welfare laws for farms, there\u2019s little reason for consumers to take meat companies at their word when they promise to do better.<\/p>\n<p><strong>What happened when an investigator returned to Cooke\u2019s fish hatchery 7 years later<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">Animal Outlook\u2019s second investigator worked at Cooke\u2019s Maine hatchery in late 2025 (the investigator isn\u2019t named due to the covert nature of their work). Like Wing, the second investigator <a href=\"https:\/\/animaloutlook.org\/investigations\/cooke-aquaculture\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">documented numerous severe welfare issues<\/a>, including workers:<\/p>\n<ul class=\"duet--article--unordered-list _10sa9omi uyby7v0 pn04iq1\">\n<li class=\"uyby7v1\">Culling fish by repeatedly beating them with metal rods on more than a dozen occasions, despite the availability of stunning equipment on-site (hitting fish like this is a common method to stun them, but it should be done in such a way that rapidly renders them unconscious)<\/li>\n<li class=\"uyby7v1\">Leaving some bludgeoned fish to thrash on the ground out of water for as long as 90 seconds to suffocate, and two instances of employees dropping live fish into buckets to suffocate <\/li>\n<li class=\"uyby7v1\">Shooting and bleeding out fish that were not fully anesthetized, causing \u201csome of the worst suffering documented at the facility,\u201d according to the organization<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">In one scene, a worker is shown cutting into a fish while the fish\u2019s heart is still beating.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">All told, Animal Outlook documented 133 instances of what appeared to be improper killing, throwing, and rough handling, along with fungal and bacterial infections (which indicate poor water quality), deformities, overcrowding, and other animal welfare problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">\u201cIt looks to me like they have a systemic welfare issue at this farm,\u201d<a href=\"https:\/\/thefishlab.com\/PI.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> Culum Brown<\/a>, a professor and prominent researcher on fish welfare at Macquarie University in Australia, told Vox over email.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">There were also multiple unexplained mass fish mortalities of hundreds or even tens of thousands of fish dying.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">Cooke Aquaculture did not respond to an interview request for this story and declined to respond to detailed questions about the investigation. \u201cCooke USA takes animal welfare very seriously,\u201d a spokesperson wrote in a statement to Vox in which the company acknowledged the hidden camera investigation and said it\u2019s reviewing the footage. \u201cAppropriate disciplinary measures will be taken with respect to employees who have not followed company policy.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">The company is certified by Best Aquaculture Practices, a program that promises \u201csafe, responsible and ethical farm-raised seafood.\u201d Best Aquaculture Practices declined an interview request for this story and said an investigation into Cooke Aquaculture is currently underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">The advocacy group Aquatic Life Institute rates Best Aquaculture Practices as having the <a href=\"https:\/\/drive.google.com\/file\/d\/1ubphTjWAJkzcSfPvmqZZXYlXSV2CPk1Q\/view\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">lowest animal welfare standards<\/a> among nine aquaculture certification programs it reviews because of how it compares to other certifiers on key issues, such as overcrowding, environmental enrichment, transport, and stunning and slaughtering. Best Aquaculture Practices, which is among the largest of the nine, said in an emailed statement to Vox that it is \u201cactively engaged with ALI [Aquatic Life Institute] and has integrated several of their recommendations.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">The Maine Department of Agriculture, Conservation and Forestry confirmed to Vox that it is conducting an animal welfare investigation in response to Animal Outlook\u2019s investigation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">Animal Outlook also documented problems that went beyond animal welfare at the hatchery.<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"_1hhpe711\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.vox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Cooke2-Webpage-Image-14-1.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=7.8125,0,84.375,100\" data-pswp-height=\"1080\" data-pswp-width=\"1620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ssnpw50\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Cooke2-Webpage-Image-14-1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A salmon thrashing around after being improperly stunned. Animal Outlook<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"_1hhpe711\" href=\"https:\/\/platform.vox.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2026\/06\/Cooke2-Webpage-Image-16-1-1.png?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;crop=7.8125,0,84.375,100\" data-pswp-height=\"1080\" data-pswp-width=\"1620\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\"><img alt=\"\" data-chromatic=\"ignore\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"fill\" class=\"_1ssnpw50\" style=\"position:absolute;height:100%;width:100%;left:0;top:0;right:0;bottom:0;color:transparent;background-size:cover;background-position:50% 50%;background-repeat:no-repeat;background-image:url(&quot;data:image\/svg+xml;charset=utf-8,%3Csvg xmlns='http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg' %3E%3Cfilter id='b' color-interpolation-filters='sRGB'%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3CfeColorMatrix values='1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 1 0 0 0 0 0 100 -1' result='s'\/%3E%3CfeFlood x='0' y='0' width='100%25' height='100%25'\/%3E%3CfeComposite operator='out' in='s'\/%3E%3CfeComposite in2='SourceGraphic'\/%3E%3CfeGaussianBlur stdDeviation='20'\/%3E%3C\/filter%3E%3Cimage width='100%25' height='100%25' x='0' y='0' preserveAspectRatio='none' style='filter: url(%23b);' href='data:image\/png;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAAAEAAAABCAQAAAC1HAwCAAAAC0lEQVR42mN8+R8AAtcB6oaHtZcAAAAASUVORK5CYII='\/%3E%3C\/svg%3E&quot;)\"   src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Cooke2-Webpage-Image-16-1-1.png\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>An aerial view of Cooke Aquaculture\u2019s hatchery in Bingham, Maine. Animal Outlook<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">When farmed salmon escape into rivers and streams, they compete with wild salmon for resources. They also mate with them, contributing to what researchers call \u201cgenetic pollution,\u201d which has created a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.iatp.org\/sites\/default\/files\/One_Species_with_Two_Biologies_Atlantic_salmon.pdf\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">hybrid breed<\/a> of salmon that can have lower survivability rates.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">In the investigation video, a worker said that the company had failed to follow one of its escape prevention protocols of putting a screen on the waste discharge pipes, from which fish can escape, that release into the Kennebec River. \u201cThey have screens that are supposed to be down,\u201d a worker said, \u201cbut there\u2019s so much shit in there that\u2026 we pretty much just keep them up all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">This alarmed Neville Crabbe of the conservation nonprofit Atlantic Salmon Federation, because the Kennebec River is home to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fisheries.noaa.gov\/species\/atlantic-salmon-protected\/science\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">endangered Atlantic salmon<\/a> and the site of a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2026\/03\/29\/science\/atlantic-salmon-endangered-maine-climate.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">$300 million project to restore their populations<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">\u201cThe escape of farmed fish\u2026is a significant contributor to population collapse and loss,\u201d for wild Atlantic salmon, Crabbe told me, and \u201cCooke is basically intentionally allowing\u201d their release.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">Some employees also suggested that a general culture of callousness pervades the company. \u201cUnfortunately, I don\u2019t think the company is in it for the fish health side, they just want fish production,\u201d a manager told the Animal Outlook investigator. \u201cKinda why our vet[erinarian] left too.\u201d Speaking about the veterinarian, one employee said \u201cthey just disregard her shit all the time.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">In one part of the investigation, a manager who Animal Outlook alleges worked at the hatchery in 2019 when Wing investigated it and was still employed there in 2025 said of Wing: \u201cI hunted her down and I found her on Instagram\u2026 I was gonna send like a horse tongue or something to her mail\u2026 I was gonna send like a deer tongue or something, or like some brains. Cause she\u2019s like an animal activist\u2026 Bitch.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">I asked Wing what she felt when she heard this recording. She expressed concern for her family\u2019s safety and also that she believes this shows how those at the company are \u201cnot sorry that they did what they did \u2014 they\u2019re sorry that they got caught.\u201d But she also expressed empathy for the employees who have little control over how the company operates.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Why we can\u2019t take animal agriculture companies at their word<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">The juxtaposition between the CEO of Cooke Aquaculture\u2019s heartfelt apology in 2019 and the grisly findings of Animal Outlook\u2019s follow-up investigation is unsettling, but it isn\u2019t unique. It\u2019s a pattern that animal protection groups have witnessed for decades: They investigate farms that supply meat, milk, and egg companies and find that some employees maliciously abuse animals. The farm or company apologizes and promises to change, sometimes firing a handful of workers. Then, the advocacy organization investigates another of the company\u2019s supplier farms, only to find the same problems.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">This includes many of the largest animal protein companies, such as Foster Farms (six investigations), Butterball (four investigations), Cal-Maine (two investigations), Smithfield Foods (around nine investigations), Tyson Foods (10 investigations), and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/420545\/fairlife-milk-animal-cruelty-dairy-coca-cola\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Fairlife<\/a> (around five investigations, though Fairlife has denied sourcing from some of the investigated farms).<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">The companies\u2019 initial responses often give the illusion that justice has been served \u2014 that the bad employees will be punished and the bad farm will be improved. The responses lead many consumers and regulators to believe that these are cases of rogue actors rather than a fundamentally cruel system.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">But that system is cruel, as its many relapses and false pieties reveal. And while instances of malicious abuse are hard to stomach, standard practices and conditions on farms \u2014 including <a href=\"https:\/\/www.vox.com\/future-perfect\/408152\/animal-cruelty-factory-farms-chicken-welfare-genetics\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">intensive breeding<\/a>, overcrowding, and pervasive disease \u2014 cause even more suffering than the occasional beatings caught on camera.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">The companies that make up this system have an unbelievably immense responsibility: the welfare of billions upon billions of animals. And yet, they are accountable to no one. Undercover investigations make this reality plain to see. Maine officials didn\u2019t hold Cooke accountable after the first investigation. Lawmakers didn\u2019t pass new animal welfare standards. Regulators didn\u2019t commit to meaningful oversight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _10sa9omi itxwjq1 itxwjq0 pn04iq1\">Meat, dairy, and egg companies reveal who they are when they think no one\u2019s watching, and we should listen. Everything else \u2014 the statements, the apologies, the promises to reform \u2014 is just noise.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1tzd3in1\">You\u2019ve read 1 article in the last month<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1tzd3in4\">Here at Vox, we&#8217;re unwavering in our commitment to covering the issues that matter most to you \u2014 threats to democracy, immigration, reproductive rights, the environment, and the rising polarization across this country.<\/p>\n<p class=\"_1tzd3in4\">Our mission is to provide clear, accessible journalism that empowers you to stay informed and engaged in shaping our world. 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