Cage-free labelling on eggs can include barn-laid or free-range farming systems. Barn-laid eggs come from hens that are able to move about in large sh...
Cage eggs come from layer hens confined in battery cages. Each hen has less space than an A4 sheet of paper and spends her life standing on bare wire ...
The RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme Standard for Layer Hens has 138 requirements for when hens are on farm, including giving hens more space to move, st...
There are no legal requirements for regular monitoring of farms, and the law does not go far enough to ensure good animal welfare. Many labelling term...
The RSPCA’s detailed animal welfare standards allow farming systems that can house animals in enriched indoor environments; or in a large shed with ...
‘Free range’, ‘outdoor bred’ and ‘cage free’ are all used to describe various methods of production for farm animals. Consumers should rea...
In addition to animal welfare improvements made through the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme, the RSPCA also engages directly with industry, retailers, f...
Unfortunately, there are common practices in livestock farming that don’t meet farm animals’ behavioural, social, or physiological needs but are n...
The RSPCA acknowledges that excluding animal-based products from your diet is one way to demonstrate that you care about farm animal welfare. But the ...
In the absence of better legal requirements for Australia’s most intensively farmed animals, the RSPCA Approved Farming Scheme was developed as a so...
Consumers are increasingly wanting to know that the products they are buying meet their expectations for animal welfare. In fact now 56% of Australian...
Higher-welfare food refers to animal-based products such as meat, fish, dairy or eggs, that have been reared and/or slaughtered to standards that prio...
