The RSPCA’s Standard for meat chickens has a focus on animal welfare which includes a requirement for stunning prior to slaughter. Pre-slaughter...
Brands marketing products with RSPCA Approved certification must have traceability systems in place to ensure these products are clearly identified, k...
Australians are driving change for some of our country’s most intensively farmed animals, simply through their purchasing decisions. Companies who r...
Pre-slaughter stunning is standard practice in the vast majority of Australian abattoirs producing halal-certified meat. But some halal and all kosher...
Australian lamb and beef products that come from sheep and cattle born and raised outdoors for their entire life, can be labelled as ‘free-range’ ...
No. Any salmon sourced from Macquarie Harbour can’t have the RSPCA Approved certification. This is because of the welfare issues associated with far...
Unfortunately, finding higher welfare ham is really hard right now and finding RSPCA Approved bacon is nearly impossible. This is because bacon is mad...
‘Outdoor bred’ is a marketing label used on products from pigs (pork, bacon, ham) that were born in a free-range environment before being raised i...
‘Sow stall free’, while a very positive improvement from the minimum legal requirements for pork production, isn’t always a guarantee of good we...
Antibiotics are drugs that are used to treat and control infections caused by bacteria. Antibiotics have been routinely used, particularly in intensiv...
A product that’s organic is not necessarily higher welfare. Organic agriculture has a focus on avoiding the use of synthetic chemicals, such as synt...
Barn-laid eggs come from hens that are able to move about in large sheds. These are cage free systems and are an improvement for hen welfare in compar...
