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‘Outdoor-bred’ RSPCA Assured pigs found ‘suffering and lame’ in farm barns

Exclusive: ‘Springwatch’ star Iolo Williams says consumers should know ‘disconnect between language and reality’

The Independent UK

‘Delicious, affordable everyday eating’: the best supermarket free-range eggs, tasted and rated

A cracking selection of eggs with welfare well considered, but which are golden and which are ‘unremarkable’?

The Guardian - UK

RSPCA ad campaign cleared following complaints by campaigners

Adfree Cities said the ads misleadingly represented the welfare standards afforded to animals farmed under the RSPCA Assured scheme.

The Independent UK

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Chris Packham and Caroline Lucas resign from RSPCA amid investigation

Wildlife TV presenter and conservationist Chris Packham has resigned as president of the RSPCA after an investigation made allegations of animal…

The National (Scotland)

Packham resigns as RSPCA president after animal cruelty claims at approved farms

Former Green Party leader Caroline Lucas has also resigned as vice president of the animal welfare organisation.

Evening Standard

Salmon farm records largest mass die-off in Scotland in a decade

THE largest mass die-off of farmed salmon in Scotland in more than a decade has occurred, with more than a million fish dying in just a year and a…

The National (Scotland)

More than 1m farmed salmon die at supplier to leading UK retailers

Mowi Scotland, which supplies Tesco, Asda and Sainsbury’s, blames a rise in sea temperatures for the deaths, while campaigners say expanding farms will make things worse

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Brian May announces ‘painful decision’ to resign as RSPCA vice president

May has been the RSPCA vice president since 2012 but is leaving after being made aware of the ‘conditions in some farms’

The Independent UK

Ricky Gervais, Moby and Joanna Lumley call on RSPCA to axe ‘misleading’ meat endorsement scheme

Exclusive: Ex-vice-chair of charity joins celebrities, professors and others in claiming Assured stamp ‘welfare-washes animal cruelty’

The Independent UK

Advertising watchdog investigates RSPCA Assured adverts after complaints of ‘misleading’ claims

Exclusive: TV and online ads including video shortlisted for award being probed after string of revelations exposing cruelty at farms and abattoirs

The Independent UK

Cows on farms supplying M&S and Muller kicked, punched, hit with chains and sworn at in shocking footage

Exclusive: Angry workers yell expletives at frightened animals and bash them with poles, secret filming shows

The Independent UK

Workers hit sick pigs at RSPCA-backed slaughterhouse supplying pork to Tesco and other supermarkets

Animals filmed with wounds and frothing at mouth in horrific sign of stress, say activists who shot undercover footage

The Independent UK

Why animal ethics matters for tackling climate change

The world’s oldest animal welfare charity, Britain’s Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (RSPCA), is under fire from non-human rights activists Animal Rising.

The Conversation

RSPCA Assured: animal welfare labels are a hollow money-maker for supermarkets

The 200-year-old Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, the oldest such charity in the world, is under fire for endorsing welfare standards on RSPCA Assured farms investigated by Animal Rising activists. More than 40 of these farms, the group alleges, contain dead or dying animals existing in…

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Evening Standard

Who are Animal Rising? King Charles' portrait vandalised by activists in protest against RSPCA

The organisation released a statement defending their choice to target the monarch’s portrait

The Guardian - UK

Chris Packham calls for halt to ‘catastrophic’ expansion of Scottish salmon farms

Broadcaster and RSPCA president says moratorium needed as mortality rates jump, while activists question charity’s role in certifying farms

Daily Record

'Gruesome' conditions at salmon farm linked to M&S slammed as images show skips full of dead fish

EXCLUSIVE: Graphic video and images obtained by the Record highlight the scale of death and disease at the Shuna Point facility near Oban, whose Norwegian owners supply M&S.

Nottingham Post

Protestors in Nottingham Sainsburys' store stage sit-in on egg aisle

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The Independent UK

Piglets at RSPCA-backed farms ‘kicked, thrown and electrocuted’

Exclusive: Animal welfare charity suspends members of its Assured scheme after secret footage reveals cruelty

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