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 Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 4:41 pm Post subject: More animal cruelty |
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Pat's Note: I see the State Veterinary Service protection racket is
unravelling faster than ever.
This is not from an Animal Rights publication; this is the Norfolk regional
newspaper today.
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED13%20Mar%202007%2010%3A58%3A06%3A983
Shock video reveals new poultry farm cruelty outrage
DAVID POWLES
13 March 2007 10:57
This is the moment a worker at a farm near Norwich punches a helpless duck
about to be taken for slaughter.
The incident was captured on camera during an undercover investigation which
today reveals the grim conditions and alleged cruelty on four farms across
the county.
It comes as consumer confidence is at an all time low following a bird flu
outbreak at a Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk.
The footage gathered by workers at the Hillside Animal Sanctuary, in
Frettenham, and passed on to the Evening News shows:
· A duck being punched and others being treated roughly and violently
grabbed round the neck before being thrown onto the back of a vehicle to be
taken for slaughter.
· Ducks, some of them obviously injured, being kept in cramped conditions,
while dead birds lay beside them on the floor.
· The floor of an industrial turkey shed littered with injured and dying
birds and one dead bird which is being eaten away by flies.
· Squalid conditions at a pig farm near Norwich, where two of the animals
appear to be lame and left in pain.
All of the farms supply food to leading stores and have been sanctioned by
the RSPCA farm animal welfare scheme, Freedom Foods, which is designed to
make sure firms rearing animals for food are meeting stringent welfare
standards.
Farms approved by the RSPCA are allowed to put the "Freedom Foods" logo on
their products and demand higher prices.
Bosses at Hillside today described the footage as "appalling" and raised
concerns about the effectiveness of the RSPCA's scheme.
Wendy Valentine, its founder, said: "It has not been hard to find footage
like this because we have found that appalling conditions on farms are just
so common.
"We want to make people aware of the cruelty that is being carried out
against these birds and animals.
"Even these farms which claim to be ethically sound are often keeping
animals or birds in terrible conditions."
Cherry Dene Farm, Hellington.
Former RSPCA council member Celia Hammond said the charity did not have the
number of inspectors needed to ensure high standards were being maintained.
She said: "These animals are going to be packaged and sent out to an
unsuspecting public who are going to be thinking that because it has an
RSPCA logo on it, these animals are going to have had a wonderful and
comfortable life.
"I'm appalled. A lot of the ducks in this footage that I've just seen are
exhibiting neurological symptoms.
"A lot of them are lame. Some of them are clearly dead and look as though
they've been dead for a long time, but there's a lot of suffering going on
there. That shouldn't be happening."
The footage of a worker punching a duck comes from Cherry Dene Farm, at
Hellington, which produces for Manor Farm Ducklings (MFD Foods Ltd). The
investigation will also be screened on the ITV current affairs programme
Tonight, With Trevor MacDonald.
The company's website claims high welfare standards, adding its "naturally
ventilated houses are the next best thing to free range".
Footage taken on October 25 last year appears to show film of ducks being
rounded up and put into crates for transportation.
One member of staff apparently punches a duck, others are seen picking up
ducks by the throat and kicking them. A similar scene was captured five days
later.
The company said the worker involved in the alleged punch on a duck was
immediately suspended pending a police and RSPCA investigation.
It said: "All duck growing farms are routinely audited by external and
internal auditing bodies as well as by veterinary and field support staff."
It said: "MFD fully supported the investigation and no further action was
taken by the authorities.
"The company disciplined the individual. The person concerned is no longer
with the company."
The footage of the turkeys is taken from a farm near Attleborough, while
Hillside said it also uncovered appalling conditions at another duck farm
near Diss and a pig farm just outside Norwich to the east.
The RSPCA's chief executive, Jackie Ballard, admitted the film footage
raised serious welfare questions. But she said the charity is ensuring real
improvements on farms.
"There were some examples of very poor animal welfare on those farms and of
animals that were very clearly suffering and that's not good enough," she
said.
"We don't sit on a farm 24 hours a day monitoring, so we don't see what's
going on all the time. So inevitably sometime things will go wrong."
She insisted the charity has more monitoring of farm standards than any of
the other quality and welfare labelling schemes that exist.
"We made 4,500 visits last year alone so we're visiting all of the
accredited schemes at least once a year, or once every 15 months to give
them accreditation.
"It would be good if we could do even more. I am ashamed when I see examples
of bad welfare. I'm not happy about it.
"The RSPCA is an animal welfare organisation. The reason we involved
ourselves with this scheme in the first place, which is a high risk thing
and costs us more than a million pounds a year to do, is we want to improve
animal welfare."
· To see more shocking footage log on to www.eveningnews24.co.uk.
Regards
Pat Gardiner
www.go-self-sufficient.com |
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 6:28 pm Post subject: Re: More animal cruelty |
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:41:35 -0000, "Pat Gardiner"
<patgardiner@btinternet.com> wrote:
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Pat's Note: I see the State Veterinary Service protection racket is
unravelling faster than ever.
This is not from an Animal Rights publication; this is the Norfolk regional
newspaper today.
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED13%20Mar%202007%2010%3A58%3A06%3A983
Shock video reveals new poultry farm cruelty outrage
DAVID POWLES
13 March 2007 10:57
This is the moment a worker at a farm near Norwich punches a helpless duck
about to be taken for slaughter.
The incident was captured on camera during an undercover investigation which
today reveals the grim conditions and alleged cruelty on four farms across
the county.
It comes as consumer confidence is at an all time low following a bird flu
outbreak at a Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk.
The footage gathered by workers at the Hillside Animal Sanctuary, in
Frettenham, and passed on to the Evening News shows:
· A duck being punched and others being treated roughly and violently
grabbed round the neck before being thrown onto the back of a vehicle to be
taken for slaughter.
· Ducks, some of them obviously injured, being kept in cramped conditions,
while dead birds lay beside them on the floor.
· The floor of an industrial turkey shed littered with injured and dying
birds and one dead bird which is being eaten away by flies.
· Squalid conditions at a pig farm near Norwich, where two of the animals
appear to be lame and left in pain.
All of the farms supply food to leading stores and have been sanctioned by
the RSPCA farm animal welfare scheme, Freedom Foods, which is designed to
make sure firms rearing animals for food are meeting stringent welfare
standards.
Farms approved by the RSPCA are allowed to put the "Freedom Foods" logo on
their products and demand higher prices.
Bosses at Hillside today described the footage as "appalling" and raised
concerns about the effectiveness of the RSPCA's scheme.
Wendy Valentine, its founder, said: "It has not been hard to find footage
like this because we have found that appalling conditions on farms are just
so common.
"We want to make people aware of the cruelty that is being carried out
against these birds and animals.
"Even these farms which claim to be ethically sound are often keeping
animals or birds in terrible conditions."
Cherry Dene Farm, Hellington.
Former RSPCA council member Celia Hammond said the charity did not have the
number of inspectors needed to ensure high standards were being maintained.
She said: "These animals are going to be packaged and sent out to an
unsuspecting public who are going to be thinking that because it has an
RSPCA logo on it, these animals are going to have had a wonderful and
comfortable life.
"I'm appalled. A lot of the ducks in this footage that I've just seen are
exhibiting neurological symptoms.
"A lot of them are lame. Some of them are clearly dead and look as though
they've been dead for a long time, but there's a lot of suffering going on
there. That shouldn't be happening."
The footage of a worker punching a duck comes from Cherry Dene Farm, at
Hellington, which produces for Manor Farm Ducklings (MFD Foods Ltd). The
investigation will also be screened on the ITV current affairs programme
Tonight, With Trevor MacDonald.
The company's website claims high welfare standards, adding its "naturally
ventilated houses are the next best thing to free range".
Footage taken on October 25 last year appears to show film of ducks being
rounded up and put into crates for transportation.
One member of staff apparently punches a duck, others are seen picking up
ducks by the throat and kicking them. A similar scene was captured five days
later.
The company said the worker involved in the alleged punch on a duck was
immediately suspended pending a police and RSPCA investigation.
It said: "All duck growing farms are routinely audited by external and
internal auditing bodies as well as by veterinary and field support staff."
It said: "MFD fully supported the investigation and no further action was
taken by the authorities.
"The company disciplined the individual. The person concerned is no longer
with the company."
The footage of the turkeys is taken from a farm near Attleborough, while
Hillside said it also uncovered appalling conditions at another duck farm
near Diss and a pig farm just outside Norwich to the east.
The RSPCA's chief executive, Jackie Ballard, admitted the film footage
raised serious welfare questions. But she said the charity is ensuring real
improvements on farms.
"There were some examples of very poor animal welfare on those farms and of
animals that were very clearly suffering and that's not good enough," she
said.
"We don't sit on a farm 24 hours a day monitoring, so we don't see what's
going on all the time. So inevitably sometime things will go wrong."
She insisted the charity has more monitoring of farm standards than any of
the other quality and welfare labelling schemes that exist.
"We made 4,500 visits last year alone so we're visiting all of the
accredited schemes at least once a year, or once every 15 months to give
them accreditation.
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If they can only do that on farms that are paying them for
accreditation, it makes you wonder if they even bother checking up on
the other farms!
This is not the first time Hillside and others have shown the RSPCA to
be not only toothless, but unwilling!
Yet another charity gone bad with too much money, I fear!
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"It would be good if we could do even more. I am ashamed when I see examples
of bad welfare. I'm not happy about it.
"The RSPCA is an animal welfare organisation. The reason we involved
ourselves with this scheme in the first place, which is a high risk thing
and costs us more than a million pounds a year to do, is we want to improve
animal welfare."
· To see more shocking footage log on to www.eveningnews24.co.uk.
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Shocking stuff.
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| Posted: Tue Mar 13, 2007 9:05 pm Post subject: Re: More animal cruelty |
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 14:28:28 +0000, "Pete ‹(•¿•)›"
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On Tue, 13 Mar 2007 12:41:35 -0000, "Pat Gardiner"
patgardiner@btinternet.com> wrote:
Pat's Note: I see the State Veterinary Service protection racket is
unravelling faster than ever.
This is not from an Animal Rights publication; this is the Norfolk regional
newspaper today.
http://www.eveningnews24.co.uk/content/news/story.aspx?brand=ENOnline&category=News&tBrand=ENOnline&tCategory=news&itemid=NOED13%20Mar%202007%2010%3A58%3A06%3A983
Shock video reveals new poultry farm cruelty outrage
DAVID POWLES
13 March 2007 10:57
This is the moment a worker at a farm near Norwich punches a helpless duck
about to be taken for slaughter.
The incident was captured on camera during an undercover investigation which
today reveals the grim conditions and alleged cruelty on four farms across
the county.
It comes as consumer confidence is at an all time low following a bird flu
outbreak at a Bernard Matthews farm in Suffolk.
The footage gathered by workers at the Hillside Animal Sanctuary, in
Frettenham, and passed on to the Evening News shows:
· A duck being punched and others being treated roughly and violently
grabbed round the neck before being thrown onto the back of a vehicle to be
taken for slaughter.
· Ducks, some of them obviously injured, being kept in cramped conditions,
while dead birds lay beside them on the floor.
· The floor of an industrial turkey shed littered with injured and dying
birds and one dead bird which is being eaten away by flies.
· Squalid conditions at a pig farm near Norwich, where two of the animals
appear to be lame and left in pain.
All of the farms supply food to leading stores and have been sanctioned by
the RSPCA farm animal welfare scheme, Freedom Foods, which is designed to
make sure firms rearing animals for food are meeting stringent welfare
standards.
Farms approved by the RSPCA are allowed to put the "Freedom Foods" logo on
their products and demand higher prices.
Bosses at Hillside today described the footage as "appalling" and raised
concerns about the effectiveness of the RSPCA's scheme.
Wendy Valentine, its founder, said: "It has not been hard to find footage
like this because we have found that appalling conditions on farms are just
so common.
"We want to make people aware of the cruelty that is being carried out
against these birds and animals.
"Even these farms which claim to be ethically sound are often keeping
animals or birds in terrible conditions."
Cherry Dene Farm, Hellington.
Former RSPCA council member Celia Hammond said the charity did not have the
number of inspectors needed to ensure high standards were being maintained.
She said: "These animals are going to be packaged and sent out to an
unsuspecting public who are going to be thinking that because it has an
RSPCA logo on it, these animals are going to have had a wonderful and
comfortable life.
"I'm appalled. A lot of the ducks in this footage that I've just seen are
exhibiting neurological symptoms.
"A lot of them are lame. Some of them are clearly dead and look as though
they've been dead for a long time, but there's a lot of suffering going on
there. That shouldn't be happening."
The footage of a worker punching a duck comes from Cherry Dene Farm, at
Hellington, which produces for Manor Farm Ducklings (MFD Foods Ltd). The
investigation will also be screened on the ITV current affairs programme
Tonight, With Trevor MacDonald.
The company's website claims high welfare standards, adding its "naturally
ventilated houses are the next best thing to free range".
Footage taken on October 25 last year appears to show film of ducks being
rounded up and put into crates for transportation.
One member of staff apparently punches a duck, others are seen picking up
ducks by the throat and kicking them. A similar scene was captured five days
later.
The company said the worker involved in the alleged punch on a duck was
immediately suspended pending a police and RSPCA investigation.
It said: "All duck growing farms are routinely audited by external and
internal auditing bodies as well as by veterinary and field support staff."
It said: "MFD fully supported the investigation and no further action was
taken by the authorities.
"The company disciplined the individual. The person concerned is no longer
with the company."
The footage of the turkeys is taken from a farm near Attleborough, while
Hillside said it also uncovered appalling conditions at another duck farm
near Diss and a pig farm just outside Norwich to the east.
The RSPCA's chief executive, Jackie Ballard, admitted the film footage
raised serious welfare questions. But she said the charity is ensuring real
improvements on farms.
"There were some examples of very poor animal welfare on those farms and of
animals that were very clearly suffering and that's not good enough," she
said.
"We don't sit on a farm 24 hours a day monitoring, so we don't see what's
going on all the time. So inevitably sometime things will go wrong."
She insisted the charity has more monitoring of farm standards than any of
the other quality and welfare labelling schemes that exist.
"We made 4,500 visits last year alone so we're visiting all of the
accredited schemes at least once a year, or once every 15 months to give
them accreditation.
If they can only do that on farms that are paying them for
accreditation, it makes you wonder if they even bother checking up on
the other farms!
This is not the first time Hillside and others have shown the RSPCA to
be not only toothless, but unwilling!
Yet another charity gone bad with too much money, I fear!
"It would be good if we could do even more. I am ashamed when I see examples
of bad welfare. I'm not happy about it.
"The RSPCA is an animal welfare organisation. The reason we involved
ourselves with this scheme in the first place, which is a high risk thing
and costs us more than a million pounds a year to do, is we want to improve
animal welfare."
· To see more shocking footage log on to www.eveningnews24.co.uk.
Shocking stuff.
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Absolutely!
They are no more than concentration camps of death and should be
closed down.
Angus Macmillan
www.roots-of-blood.org.uk
www.killhunting.org
www.con-servation.org.uk
All truth passes through three stages:
First, it is ridiculed;
Second, it is violently opposed; and
Third, it is accepted as self-evident.
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