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RSPCA free range scams Greens MP John Kaye speaks out

January 9th, 2012

FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda

RSPCA free range pork & egg scam

Victoria Bruce

January 10, 2012

A NSW Greens MP said the RSPCA accreditation and labelling standards were misleading because people who bought pork with the stamp assumed it was from a free-range pig.

A NSW Greens MP says the RSPCA accreditation and labelling standards were misleading because people who bought pork with the stamp assumed it was from a free-range pig.

THE RSPCA has hit back at claims its new pork accreditation and labelling standards are misleading consumers.

Scientific officer Melina Tensen says the organisation’s pig production standards are designed to ensure a better quality of life for the animals.

”Animal welfare in pig production can be provided in an indoor environment, an outdoor environment or a combination of the two,” Ms Tensen said yesterday.

”The aim is to provide for the animals’ behavioural needs and allow the pig to do all those things a pig needs to do: forage, root, play and socialise.”

Ms Tensen said in conventional farming systems female pigs were kept in sow stalls for part of their pregnancy then moved to farrowing crates to give birth. Once their piglets were weaned they were transferred to concrete pens to grow until ready for slaughter.

”At RSPCA-approved farms, there are no sow stalls, farrowing crates or barren concrete pens,” Ms Tensen said.

New South Wales Greens MP John Kaye said yesterday that the RSPCA’s accreditation and labelling standards were misleading because people who bought pork with an RSPCA stamp would assume it was from a free-range pig.

A complaint has also been lodged with the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission by free-range accrediting organisation Humane Choice, alleging the RSPCA’s labelling is misleading, The Age reported yesterday.

The RSPCA changed its approved pig farming scheme in August last year and removed references to the term ”free-range” when classifying and labelling pig production systems. Ms Tensen urged the pig industry and government to develop a legal definition for terms such as free range so it was clear what minimum requirements must be met.

Interesting RSPCA should say that, when in fact RSPCA and Coles website advertise their meat as free range.

http://www.rspca.org.au/shophumane/rspca-products/pork/coles-finest-fresh-pork

http://www.coles.com.au/About-Coles/Sustainability/Animal-Welfare.aspx

RSPCA’s free range eggs scam.

http://www.alv.org.au/storyarchive/0109rspcafraud/0109rspcafraud-amagarticle.php

The RSPCA, and particularly their national President, is very gung ho when it comes to marketing farmed animals. From their failed pet food venture (where the “all creature’s great and small” pictured on the can were also in the can) to accreditation of barn-laid eggs (Liberty and Mrs McKechie’s in Victoria; MacQuarie in Tasmania) and now free-range pig meat (under the Ottway Pork brand). The RSPCA receives a royalty from the sales of these animal products which they claim satisfy their guidelines for humane production.

These weak guidelines are bunk anyway: how can a bird who has her beak seared off, is crammed into a shed with thousands of other birds, then trucked to the abattoir, be free from pain and distress? There is also major concern that the token barn-laid sheds being set up by major battery battery producers (including Pace, the largest egg producer in Australia) are happily continuing their major animal abuse enterprises under the auspices of the RSPCA!

RSPCA GETTING AWAY WITH MURDER

The core of this issue is raised with the advent of RSPCA-approved pork. Hugh Wirth publicly denounces vegetarianism, always skirts the slaughterhouse issue, and with his written word in the RSPCA newsletter, fosters an attitude that farmed animals are not beings. Referring to “…meat…being humanely produced, transported and killed” is not only grammatically incorrect but promotes an attitude that meat, milk and eggs have nothing to do with animals. This is exactly the kind of attitude the animal industries have promoted to the public for years. The same industries who pay the RSPCA to approve their products.