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.

  • Jongseok Shin
    signed 2025-02-08 02:29:51 +0000
    Thank you!
  • Younghwa Kim
    signed 2025-02-08 02:15:50 +0000
    Hey RSPCA , DO THE EIGHT THING!
  • Elisa Mazzocchetti
    signed 2025-02-07 11:50:29 +0000
  • Magda Glazewska
    signed 2025-02-07 11:25:50 +0000
  • Julie Ellis
    signed 2025-02-05 05:52:13 +0000
  • Chelsey Neil
    signed 2025-02-04 22:39:05 +0000
    Save the babies 🙏🤗
  • Stephane Pereira
    signed 2025-02-04 19:07:23 +0000
  • Antonia Symes
    signed 2025-02-04 19:03:06 +0000
    Disgraceful findings by AR of the egregious animal cruelty by the alleged RSPCA ASSURED FARMS AND SLAUGHTERHOUSES.

    I salute Brian May and Chris Packham for disassociating themselves from this so-called ‘Animal Charity’
  • kojo bonsu
    signed 2025-02-04 10:19:16 +0000
    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.
  • Margaret Pasztor
    signed 2025-02-04 09:43:03 +0000
  • Vasiliki Davies
    signed 2025-02-03 20:48:51 +0000
  • Tia Jackson
    signed 2025-02-03 10:03:25 +0000
  • Greta Kegler
    signed 2025-02-03 09:56:16 +0000
  • Meg Yates
    signed 2025-02-03 01:49:43 +0000
  • Myfanwy Harris
    signed via 2025-02-02 23:37:38 +0000
    Absolutely appalling. The RSPCA need to react in a grand way to repair their reputation after such a damning expose.
  • Bethan Woods
    signed 2025-02-02 23:05:51 +0000
    I am disappointed and disgusted that an organisation that people trust and rely on to ensure the “protection of animals” is such a corrupt and incompetent company. The barbaric evidence shown, unveils that the RSPCA are not only dishonest, but have no credibility anymore and should be held accountable.
  • Erik Olson
    signed 2025-02-02 18:28:35 +0000
  • Sandra Iseman
    signed 2025-02-02 17:55:10 +0000
  • Carmen Marti
    signed 2025-02-02 17:36:32 +0000
  • Nathan Mortensen
    signed 2025-02-02 15:55:54 +0000
  • Ria Hothi
    signed 2025-02-02 06:33:49 +0000
  • Hannah Czapnik
    signed 2025-02-01 20:59:12 +0000
  • Will Steele
    signed 2025-02-01 14:40:07 +0000
  • Linda Vingiano
    signed 2025-02-01 11:20:21 +0000
  • Vicki Lloyd-Smith
    signed 2025-02-01 04:52:52 +0000
    i am so sick and tired of hearing and experiencing how useless the RSPCA are! For decades I have witnessed this first hand, being an animal rescuer and calling on them so many times for help! But we need an uprising against them and a farm more responsible and committed group to stand up and take action!! I TRULY THINK THAT BY GOING TO KING CHARLES AND MAKING HIM AWARE OF HOW USELESS THEY ARE, we could convince him to REMOVE THEROYAL” name from them, ONCE AND FOR ALL!
  • Rachel Bailey
    signed 2025-02-01 04:10:55 +0000
  • Sian Gordon
    signed 2025-02-01 03:20:37 +0000
  • Aine O'Neill
    signed via 2025-01-31 21:40:27 +0000
  • George Pinnell
    signed 2025-01-31 17:05:36 +0000
  • Ray Valentine
    signed 2025-01-31 16:40:21 +0000