Gail Eisnitz: Out of Sight

Gail Eisnitz: Out of Sight

From Species Unite by Species Unite

December 17, 2025 · 38 min · Season 13 · Episode 16

About this episode

Gail Eisnitz discusses the hidden abuses in industrial agriculture and the challenges of exposing them.

"These workers were so courageous to go on camera to talk about what they were being forced to do, and we had a whistleblower attorney there to protect them. And then Dateline just killed the story. What I heard through the grapevine was they were afraid that people would change the channel. It's so interesting to me that you can have stabbings and starvation and murders and all sorts of stuff on TV, but if it happens to animals, they won't do it." – Gail Eisnitz Most of what happens to animals in this country is designed to stay hidden. The violence, the speed, the scale — all of it kept out of sight, behind doors the public is never meant to open. For more than forty years, Gail Eisnitz has documented some of the worst abuses in industrial agriculture: animals skinned alive, pigs entering scalding tanks fully conscious, workers forced to brutalize animals at speeds no living being could withstand. Her investigations exposed a system built on secrecy, protected by powerful industries, and ignored by institutions charged with enforcing the law. Her work has forced congressional action, shut down factory farms, held corporations accountable, and revealed to the world what really…

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Guest: Gail Eisnitz

Topics covered

  • animal rights
  • industrial agriculture
  • whistleblowing

Keywords

  • animal abuse
  • secrecy
  • investigations

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Books & works: Out of Sight

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