Page 42 - Hillside Anniversay Newsletter

By 2011, we had looked at 30 RSPCA
Freedom Food farms and ten - a third of
them - were so appalling, they have either
been the subject of a high-profile television
programme and/or a court case based on
our evidence.

Staff Caught Abusing Ducks Destined for W

Both Sky News and Channel 5 broadcast our shocking investigation of conditi
Foods farm, which was supplying ducks to Waitrose as high welfare, free-ran

Covered in faeces, an injured duck lies on Our secretly-filmed foota
Norfolk, where we found
the barn floor in a scene from the footage Food’ certificate displayed
22 showed frightened birds bei
necks before being swung a
the other ducks, as they wer
to be taken away for slaught

Farm animal welfare expert D
"Commercially reared meat
heavy animals and handling t
likely to cause injury to thei