Page 43 - Hillside Anniversay Newsletter

This farm had a long-standing
RSPCA Freedom Food
accreditation and we were just
concluding a year-long undercover
documentary,
‘A Year of Life, Death and Suffering
on a Freedom Food Duck Farm’,
when we encountered these
barbaric scenes.

Waitrose on Freedom Food Farm ..

ions at a Gressingham Throwing live ducks is incredibly inhumane and would
nge produce. most certainly have caused suffering through pain or
injury to the birds. The footage shows unacceptable
age at Hall Farm in levels of lameness and injury in the flock. Birds that are
an RSPCA ‘Freedom ill or injured should receive veterinary attention or be
proudly on the wall, humanely culled without delay. Dead birds, in a state of
ing picked up by their decomposition that haven't been removed, present a
around and thrown at risk of disease to the living birds and is indicative of a
ere herded into crates lack of even the most basic level of stockmanship duties."
ter.
Despite being told that those responsible had been
Dr Marc Cooper said: suspended, there were no prosecutions because the
t ducks are flightless, RSPCA claimed that the staff working that night couldn’t
them in this manner is be identified!!!
ir neck, legs and body.