Anonymous for Animal Rights, an Israeli nonprofit dedicated to exposing cruelty in factory farms, has done something truly revolutionary. Instead of sending in an undercover volunteer to collect horrific footage at slaughterhouses and Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFOs), the group has installed a web camera at an egg farming operation to stream the cruelty live. Live. 

And because factory farms are so enormous and indistinguishable, the farmers can’t find the camera. 

This ingenious move is part of a larger, ongoing campaign by Anonymous to outlaw battery cages for egg laying hens in Israel. These cages mean that hens spend their entire lifetime in a space smaller than even a page of a trade paperback book—about 550 square centimeters.

Israel is planning to rebuild the infrastructure of the egg production industry, and the country can choose to “replace the cruel battery-cage system with cage-free systems,” says Chen Morad, the member spearheading the “Israel Leaves the Cage” campaign for Anonymous.

According to Anonymous, the Education Committee of the Israeli governing body, the Knesset, will be voting on this issue soon. So send them a message now, and speak up for the hens who can’t. 

Photo credit: Farm Sanctuary