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.

  • Michele Hobbs
    signed 2025-01-22 23:46:09 +0000
  • Lorretta Holmes
    signed 2025-01-22 22:00:33 +0000
  • Carni Vore
    signed 2025-01-22 20:59:52 +0000
    I’m signing this petition to show how stupid I am along with every other f****** idiot that thinks this is a good way to help the situation.


    Anyone who thinks impeding people who can’t do anything about the situation in their daily life is going to help their cause are not only some of the stupidest dumbfucks I have ever seen in my life, but they are also a waste of our breathing air….


    This petition sucks, this group sucks, and they should all suck each other off and choke.
  • Andrea Bland
    signed via 2025-01-22 20:35:44 +0000
  • Rachel Amanda
    signed 2025-01-22 19:38:28 +0000
    If people were doing this to cats and dogs, the RSPCA would be straight there to stop it. Complete hypocrisy.
  • Chris Baker
    signed 2025-01-22 19:12:30 +0000
  • Georgios Voulgarakis
    signed 2025-01-22 18:04:01 +0000
  • Catherine Kirk Jardine
    signed 2025-01-22 17:47:53 +0000
  • Charlie Young
    signed 2025-01-22 17:41:22 +0000
  • Sue Dunn
    signed 2025-01-22 17:35:32 +0000
  • Nora Salem
    signed 2025-01-22 17:25:27 +0000
  • Dawn Muggleton
    signed 2025-01-22 17:21:49 +0000
  • Chris Pearson
    signed 2025-01-22 17:13:23 +0000
  • Michael Young
    signed 2025-01-22 17:09:01 +0000
  • Hope Young
    signed via 2025-01-22 17:02:45 +0000
  • Alex Farndell-Fernandez
    signed via 2025-01-22 16:58:59 +0000
  • Rafal Mysakowski
    signed 2025-01-22 16:49:51 +0000
  • Jane Wright
    signed 2025-01-22 16:43:41 +0000
  • Lisa Brearley
    signed 2025-01-22 16:07:04 +0000
  • Lorraine Teasdale
    signed 2025-01-22 15:55:55 +0000
    Thankyou for highlighting this duping of caring shoppers
  • Natasha Garnier
    signed 2025-01-22 15:53:13 +0000
  • Chloe Owens
    signed 2025-01-22 15:51:06 +0000
  • Richard Fogarty
    signed 2025-01-22 15:48:43 +0000
  • Mariella Sprado
    signed 2025-01-22 15:48:25 +0000
  • Jill Brooke
    signed 2025-01-22 15:43:06 +0000
  • Julie Baxter
    signed via 2025-01-22 15:24:05 +0000
    Thank goodness this horrendous cruelty has been exposed,very glad to sign
  • Ade Reynolds
    signed 2025-01-22 15:11:01 +0000
  • Kimberly Jones
    signed 2025-01-22 14:49:15 +0000
  • Kerry Gilbert
    signed 2025-01-22 13:53:34 +0000
  • K M Restall-Harding
    signed 2025-01-22 12:56:28 +0000
    The RSPCA’s Assured Scheme is not fit for purpose. Supermarkets gain sales when their meat products carry the RSPCA’s Assured Farm seal, but the public are being mislead into thinking they’re buying meat from animals that had a cruelty-free life and an ending free from fear or pain. This is clearly not the case at many of these so-called ‘approved’ farms and slaughter houses.