Breeding and food

One Voice denounces the slavery of Macaques used for the harvest of coconuts in various Asian countries. With the association of the Coco charter companies pledge against the work being done by the use of monkeys.

One month before the Yulin Festival, the biggest dog and cat slaughter in the world is denounced with images from an investigation by One Voice in Asia. A petition is launched to stop this slaughter.

One Voice and the Oxford Centre for Animal Ethics organise a summer school on the ethics of animal consumption. 60 world experts convene over 3 days!

A global action day "Animals are not freight" is organised by CIWF in partnership with One Voice, on the 20th anniversary of the sinking of a cargo ship which took the lives of 67,488 sheep.

Launch of our campaign Je change de paradigme (A New Paradigm) which aims to show everyone that solving climate change depends on making peace with the living world.

An IPSOS poll for OABA and One Voice reveals that a large majority of French people are not in favour of ritual sacrifice.

Protest against a planned veal crate farm for 1,000 calves.

The One Voice truck criss-crosses France on a "journey of hope for humanity". It is equipped to educate about animals destined to be eaten and their suffering on the final journey to slaughter.

One Voice saves five sheep - four ewes and a ram - and a goat from the barbarity of underground abbatoirs during the week of Eid al-Adha.

One Voice distributes a pamphlet on sentience in cows and sheep.

Launch in France of the European campaign 8hours, started by Animals' Angels, to limit the duration of journeys to slaughterhouses to 8 hours. More than a million signatures are collected!

Action against compulsory meat-centered meals in canteens.

One Voice publishes the French edition of the book The Pig Who Sang to the Moon by Jeffrey Masson.

Circle of Silence in Rennes for lambs that are victims of Easter.

An investigation into livestock markets shows the fate awaiting dairy calves in particular, and also cows and sheep.

Our investigation in Brazil and Mexico reveals the suffering of horses destined for the European horse-meat market.

Circle of Silence in Rennes for animals killed during the festival of Eid al-Adha festival.

Our first Circle of Silence for animals is held on the anniversary of the speech by Martin Luther King, with the theme "I have a dream, let's stop eating them!"

One Voice demands the banning of slaughter without pre-stunning and shows footage from its slaughterhouse investigations to MEPs at the Agriculture Commission together with our partner Compassion in World Farming.

One Voice institutes civil proceedings for neglect in several cases where dozens of cattle were discovered on farms having died from hunger and thirst.

Following an investigation in China, One Voice condemns the consumption of dog and cat meat in Asia.

One Voice investigators go undercover in 25 French slaughterhouses, five of which practise ritual slaughter, and film the terror and suffering of the animals.

One Voice launches the movement J'écoute ma conscience (I Listen to My Conscience), originally called One World, One Conscience, and proposes as an urgent first step a reduction in meat consumption.

Publication of the report L'élevage, la viande : le désastre (The Farming and Meat Catastrophe).

An investigation in China prior to the Olympics reveals the fate of zoo animals and dogs and cats turned into meat.

In November One Voice organises a huge silent solidarity demo against fur and foie gras at the Trocadéro, right opposite the Eiffel Tower.

One Voice investigator, working with the police, identifies and intercepts a lorry where 27 horses have been trapped with neither water nor food for more than 48 hours, en route from Spain to Belgium for fattening and slaughter. The 24 survivors are rehomed in sanctuaries and the hauliersbanned from all animal related activities.

Launch of our campaign Total Respect to have horses designated as companion animals so that they will no longer be slaughtered for their flesh.

One Voice works with the police in Haute-Marne to track down lorries tranporting animals illegally.

Rescue of Liberty, a cow who escaped from the Auch abbatoir in south-west France and hid out in a garden. After some tough negotiations, One Voice took her on and placed her in a sanctuary near Nantes.

Launch of the campaign Transports de la honte (Journeys of Shame).

Enquête au Vietnam sur les chiens tués pour leur viande.

Action with the public prosecutor in a case where 300 cattle were crammed into a piece of land that was too small and 284 animals died in two years, including newborn calves.

One Voice lodges a complaint over the case of the Clermont-Ferrand slaughterhouse where sixty cattle and a horse were unlawfully taken and abandoned after its closure.

Manifesto of the Union for Animals, a coalition set up by One Voice to increase the involvement of politicians in animal causes during presidential and general elections. Our goals for "food" animals: an end to factory farming, reduced journey times, and bans on live exports, cages for egg-laying hens, castration without anaesthetic, and genetic manipulation of animals. We also call for a moratorium on the use of trawl nets in open water and the seabed during a scientific study of their impact on the marine ecosystem, fish and cetaceans, and call into question the subsidies they receive.

One Voice supplies WSPA with information, photos and videos for its boycott foie gras campaign in the United Kingdom.

Foie gras producers, via their trade association CIFOG, and outraged by our leaflet, demand that the text be altered.

One Voice carries out further inquiries in Belgium following an investigation by GAIA and AEP into livestock markets. The lynching by horse dealers of an AEP activist who worked with our investigator makes front page news.

One Voice/Aequalis brings a civil action in a case of abused cattle. The farmer is found guilty.

Over two years, One Voice/Aequalis opposes more than 150 applications to open or expand factory farms.

An illegal halal slaughterhouse is closed down after One Voice/Aequalis alerts the DDPP, the agency that enforces food regulations in France.

One Voice, with the police, shuts down an unauthorised poultry vendor in the Paris area and rescues 156 hens.

One Voice lodges a complaint against the slaughter of pigs on farms, especially in the south-west.

An illegal halal slaughterhouse is closed down after One Voice/Aequalis alerts the DDPP, the agency that enforces food regulations in France.

Joint demo with dozens of organisations calling for respect for animals and nature and against factory farming.

Investigation and publication of a report on intensive fish farms in Scotland and their impact on the sea.

A ban on meat and bone meal, which One Voice/Talis had called for in 1996, is applied to all animals including fish.

Campaign against the enlargement of a laying hen farm in Preuschdorf, during which we presented the arguments against to a commission of enquiry. 330 letters were delivered in one week to the Town Hall.

Filing of various complaints relating to Eid al-Adha following breaches of the law recorded by One Voice/Talis investigators.

Campagne avec la PMAF pour un contrôle renforcé des conditions de transport des animaux et la transposition en droit français de la directive européenne 9529/CEE.

Our anti-foie gras roadshow visits 21 towns across France. The campaign, built around Aglaé, a typical foie gras goose, is reported by France 3 tv, Radio France and several daily papers, provoking reaction from numerous breeders.

One Voice/Talisgives presentations at several public meetings on mad cow disease, contaminated growth hormone and Creutzfeld-Jakob Disease.

Following an investigation of chicken farming in La Bresse in north-east France, One Voice (at that time called Talis) speaks out about castration and reveals the suffering involved.

As part of the mad cow epidemic, Muriel Arnal is interviewed on TF1 lunchtime news about the traffic in British calves passed off as Irish or French, revealed in an earlier interview in 1996 that was never broadcast.

After intense lobbying, France announces the abolition of special sites for ritual sacrifice during Eid al-Adha, which can now only take place in an abbatoir.

One Voice (Aequalis) is acquitted on the main charge of spreading false news during the mad cow disease scandal but found guilty of libelling Philippe Vasseur, the former Minister of Agriculture, for using the phrases "out of sight, out of mind" and "yet more cover-ups by the minstry."

Launch in Strasbourg of our anti-foie gras campaign with film of our investigation, shown on Channel 3 television in Alsace and reported in local daily papers.

Undercover investigation of a duck foie gras farm in Deux-Sèvres. Our investigator films horrific living conditions, force-feeding and slaughter.

Demo against the opening of a farm for 15,000 pigs in Châteauroux and campaign against the building of fifteen poultry farms for 200,000 hens each in the Val de Loire.

Muriel Arnal takes gives a presentation about meat and health at a scientific congress held by LAF-DAM, the leading French anti-vivisection campaigning organisation.

One Voice (Aequalis) takes UK journalists from Channel 4 to the temporary slaughter sites for the festival of Eid al-Adha. The investigation is the main story on Channel 4 News and provokes such a bitter public reaction that there is a big demo in London the very next day organised by Viva!

400 battery hens saved from slaughter.

One Voice appears on many more talk shows including two on vegetarianism hosted by Jean-Luc Delarue and Christophe Dechavanne.

Distribution of thousands of leaflets across France in front of cinemas showing Babe to inform children about the issues around using animals.

Demo in Boulogne against live export of calves from the UK to France and veal crates. One Voice (at that time known as Aequalis) blows the whistle on the transport of infected calves throughout Europe.

Muriel Arnal appears in many broadcasts to discuss problems associated with livestock and in particular the consequences for the environment and human and animal health.

The families of people infected with CJD from infected meat come to France at the invitation of One Voice and speak alongside us to the media.

One Voice calls for the banning of meat and bone meal. We work with the top experts in the world on this issue. Our informants in the British and French ministries are very worried about the situation and keen to speak out.

Meeting in Dover with Viva! about the conditions of animals transported to abbatoirs. British organisations join with One Voice to campaign on mad cow disease.

We compile a press kit on infected meat which is distributed to all the French media. It is updated with our investigations in 1996 and 1997.

Mad cow disease in France is uncovered by One Voice, making front page news in all the papers and pointing the finger directly at high-ranking civil servants.

Investigation with journalists into factory farms, where we filmed the chemicals used and in particular the antibiotics given to animals.