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

By Lindsay Hamilton, Professor of Animal Organization Studies, University of York

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 unacceptable conditions.

An RSPCA Assured spokesperson is reported…

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