Chris Delforce
Chris is the founding director of animal rights organisation Farm Transparency Project, and for the last 12 years has been investigating and documenting farms, slaughterhouses and other animal exploitation industries across Australia. Chris has created two award-winning documentaries – 2014’s Lucent and 2018’s Dominion – which examine the ways animals are commercially used and abused in Australia. In 2019, Chris launched an interactive online map of thousands of factory farms and slaughterhouses across Australia, and recently spent over 9 hours hidden inside a slaughterhouse gas chamber to capture the agonising final moments of pigs
Behind closed doors: forcing transparency
Chris will talk about his organisation’s efforts to force transparency on an industry dependent on secrecy, through years of covert investigations and ground-breaking exposés – from the maceration of male chicks in the egg industry, to the gassing of pigs in slaughterhouses, the shooting of ex-racehorses in knackeries, and much more. He’ll share his experiences of the pushback from government and industry, and give updates on FTP’s latest campaigns, including their pledge to expose 30 slaughterhouses by the end of 2024.
