Page 17 - Hillside Winter 2016/2017 Newsletter
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RSPCA Approved... after our footage was released found nothing we had filmed
Following a tip-off, our investigators discovered yet another RSPCA breached any free-range or Freedom Food regulations.
Freedom Food farm falling far short of the animal welfare standards
they promise for the animals. However, respected vet Amir Kashiv,
Conditions for the hens in this 'Lion Brand' free-range farm were after watching our footage declared
appalling. We filmed conditions from December 2015 to January
2016 and found thousands of balding hens being kept in an area ‘the conditions in this and some other
with insufficient perches, ammonia levels more than twice the
recommended limit and every hen we checked was infested with hen houses are inhumane’ he went on
mites. In a stunning indictment of the RSPCA Freedom Food (now
‘RSPCA Assured’) scheme, RSPCA inspectors who visited the farm to say ‘the grim and squalid conditions
‘RSPCA inspectors found no breaches of any are a far cry from the image and
’free-range regulations
impression conjured up by the terms Ammonia levels were double
‘free range’ and ‘Freedom Food’ the recommended amount
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