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Investigation into the RSPCA Assured scheme reveals widespread animal suffering

From EthicalGlobe.com
June 2024

Over four months (January to May this year), more than 50 investigators assessed 45 RSPCA Assured farms during 60 investigations, uncovering widespread suffering and factory farming conditions. Their findings, which include over 280 breaches of basic welfare requirements and 94 violations of DEFRA codes of practice, challenge the scheme’s claims of high welfare standards and expose systemic cruelty.

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Animal lovers across the UK are unwittingly supporting cruelty every time they choose RSPCA Assured products. This is the conclusion of a groundbreaking investigation by Animal Rising that reveals a hidden world of suffering that contradicts everything the scheme promises.

Detailed in their report, RSPCA ‘Assured’: Covering up cruelty on an industrial scale, Animal Rising conducted the most extensive farm investigation in UK history, scrutinising the RSPCA Assured scheme, which is touted as the pinnacle of animal welfare in British farming.

The report was released on 9th June 2024, exactly one week before the RSPCA’s 200th anniversary, and reveals a grim reality.

Over four months (January to May this year), more than 50 investigators assessed 45 RSPCA Assured farms during 60 investigations, uncovering widespread suffering and factory farming conditions. Their findings, which include over 280 breaches of basic welfare requirements and 94 violations of DEFRA codes of practice, challenge the scheme’s claims of high welfare standards and expose systemic cruelty.

Despite its 30-year history and rebranding efforts, the RSPCA Assured scheme is revealed to be a facade, misleading consumers who believe they are making humane choices.

It’s our view at Ethical Globe that this investigation should be a wake-up call to all that there is no kind or humane way to farm our fellow animals as food.

What is the RSPCA Assured scheme?

In 1994, the RSPCA launched its Freedom Food scheme. It was the first programme of its kind “to focus solely on farm animal welfare” (Source: RSPCA Assured) and required welfare standards that were set by the RSPCA, the world’s oldest animal welfare organisation.

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Please read the ENTIRE ARTICLE HERE, including:

  • What is the RSPCA Assured scheme?
  • The findings of the RSPCA ‘Assured’ investigation
  • The plight of pigs
  • Chickens in horrendous conditions
  • The unimaginable suffering of farmed salmon and trout
  • The RSPCA has broken public trust
  • Not the first time
  • The RSPCA's response
  • The RSPCA Assured scheme must end
  • This is what the RSPCA is meant to stand for. 
Posted on All-Creatures.org: September 21, 2024
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