If you were concerned about animal welfare, would you choose to spend money on prosecuting farmers whose welfare is below par? Or would you spend that money on improving animal welfare through regular unannounced farm inspections, and the labeling of meat that has met strict welfare standards? There seems to be a split in the RSPCA, and it’s this farming issue that’s causing all the trouble.
At their latest annual meeting the charity’s members voted to support a motion which would see them increase their prosecutions of farmers and slaughterhouse workers, and abandon their current Freedom Food accreditation scheme, according to minutes leaked to The Times. And it wasn’t just a small split either, but a well supported revolt, with 59 members voting in favour of the motion, and just 4 opposing.
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The charity’s ‘new radical impetus’ reads the motion, ‘must not be allowed to falter in the face of forces inimical to change within and outside the society’.
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