Petition for the RSPCA to Drop the Assured Scheme

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The world's oldest and largest animal charity is covering up cruelty on an industrial scale. We investigated over 40 RSPCA Assured farms and slaughterhouses, and what we found was factory farming and severe animal cruelty across the board. Join Chris Packham, Brian May and thousands of others, in calling on the RSPCA to drop the Assured Scheme and start protecting all animals.

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For 30 years, the RSPCA has endorsed animal products through their RSPCA Assured scheme, promoting an idealised image of happy, well-cared-for farm animals.

Over the past nine months, we investigated 37 RSPCA farms and 4 RSPCA slaughterhouses. What we found was widespread and systemic suffering, animal cruelty and factory farming. After seeing the footage of these investigations, RSPCA President Chris Packham has resigned, calling the Assured scheme "utterly indefensible".

Crown court judge and animal welfare barrister Ayesha Smart has also described the scheme as "effectively fraud." On the back of our investigations, RSPCA Vice President and Queen's lead guitarist Sir Brian May resigned, and over 60 animal welfare groups and prominent celebrities, including Ricky Gervais, Bryan Adams, and Joanna Lumley, signed an open letter calling for the RSPCA to drop the Assured scheme.

This exposé builds on a further 33 undercover investigations by 10 animal protection organisations over the last 16 years, showing similar levels of cruelty. This is not just "one bad apple"; This is a systemic cover-up of animal cruelty.

The RSPCA's false advertising extends from the supermarket aisles of M&S, Tesco, Sainsbury's, and Waitrose to McDonald's and even primary schools, where the scheme is promoted to children. Despite claiming to oppose intensive farming, the RSPCA continues to endorse factory farming practices.

The RSPCA was founded 200 years ago with the mission of preventing animal cruelty. Over the years, they have worked hard to care for cats and dogs, becoming a much-loved charity. Now, on their 200-year anniversary, it is time for the RSPCA to drop the Assured Scheme and restore trust, both with the general public and with the animals they claim to protect.

Please join us, Chris Packham and thousands of others in calling for the RSPCA leadership to drop the Assured Scheme and return to its original mission of protecting all animals.

  • Diane O’Byrne
    signed 2024-12-10 12:09:35 +0000
  • Nikki Lewis
    signed 2024-12-10 09:55:31 +0000
  • Jennifer Harding
    signed 2024-12-10 09:29:03 +0000
  • Stephanie Inglis
    signed 2024-12-10 03:02:12 +0000
  • Lisa Birks
    signed 2024-12-09 21:13:34 +0000
    Thank you for all you do!

    I will never support the rspca again
  • Joshua Friedman-Fox
    signed 2024-12-09 13:08:39 +0000
  • Alison Walker
    signed 2024-12-09 10:13:21 +0000
  • Carol Broll
    signed 2024-12-07 15:29:13 +0000
  • Suzanne Tate
    signed 2024-12-05 16:57:51 +0000
  • Rita Williams
    signed 2024-12-04 20:10:22 +0000
    If a person eats meat, the very least that should be wholly assured, is that the poor defenceless, innocent creatures are treated humanly. No factory farming, and no live animals in transit. And anyone, who treats animals with cruelty should be given a prison sentence. Animals are as innocent as children.
  • Robert Gill
    signed 2024-12-04 10:25:45 +0000
  • christine wratten
    signed 2024-12-02 11:52:19 +0000
  • Dawid Karamon
    signed 2024-12-02 10:24:58 +0000
  • Rebecca Robinson
    signed 2024-12-02 10:06:16 +0000
  • Michael Chatham
    signed 2024-12-02 03:21:55 +0000
  • David Donaldson
    signed 2024-12-01 20:12:56 +0000
  • Filip Nowicki
    signed 2024-12-01 00:02:57 +0000
  • Rabiya shah
    signed 2024-11-30 13:11:38 +0000
  • Sally Marvin
    signed 2024-11-30 13:05:32 +0000
  • Hilda Estrada
    signed 2024-11-29 18:20:08 +0000
  • Jane Canning
    signed 2024-11-29 18:09:09 +0000
  • Aoife Nic an Bheatha
    signed 2024-11-29 16:54:08 +0000
  • Helen Meszaros
    signed 2024-11-29 14:08:04 +0000
  • Julie Shepherd
    signed 2024-11-29 09:44:41 +0000
  • Dimitra Arneson
    signed 2024-11-29 02:38:56 +0000
  • Teresa Owen
    signed 2024-11-29 01:30:41 +0000
  • Martina Finn
    signed 2024-11-28 22:41:17 +0000
  • Jane Ferridge
    signed 2024-11-28 21:26:09 +0000
  • Christine Gale
    signed 2024-11-28 21:20:23 +0000
  • Jen Ardis
    signed 2024-11-28 20:29:11 +0000