For the first time in Mexico City, dozens of activists converged to shut down a busy chicken slaughterhouse. In addition to shutting down their operations for most of the day, the activists were able to save the lives of six chickens.

For the third annual open rescue day, activists rescued nine animals across three different countries. DxE activists rescued a hen in France and a bunny in the USA. 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.

DxE organizer Rachel Ziegler, who previously worked as a Chipotle manager, was able to track down one of Chipotle’s chicken farms, despite the secrecy that surrounds their suppliers. She led a team to investigate the facility and found rampant crowding, disease and death. She saved Willow from certain death and the exposé has been seen by over a million people on social media.

When DxE investigators found Sally at a Foster Farms turkey farm, she had an oversized crop full of the wood shavings she had been forced to eat to survive. Sally was one of the smallest birds among the thousands at this farm and she couldn’t reach food -- but now she’s getting all the food she wants. That's because DxE investigators rushed her to the vet for an emergency surgery that removed the wood shavings from her crop, and brought her to a new home with a family of humans, dogs, pigs and bunnies who all love her.

DxE Activists in Toronto, Canada returned to Adare Pork to document the horrific animal cruelty, including mother pigs with prolapses where their organs fall out of their bodies and baby pigs starving to death in piles of feces. Despite recent charges and a police raid at one activist's home, investigators once again rescued a suffering piglet and brought their findings to the public.

Drone footage of a Costco farm revealed over 20,000 hutches designed to imprison baby cows and separate them from their mothers. When activists walked onto the farm to see up close, they found a mass grave of dead cows alongside thousands of suffering calves. They saved Nick from this life of misery.