• ‘They live absolutely horrible lives’: RSPCA vows to reform treatment of chickens in UK

    Animal charity marks its 200th anniversary with pledge to tackle the suffering of factory-farmed poultryIt has taken two centuries of hard campaigning to halt some of the worst abuses of animals in the UK. The baiting of bears and bulls has been banned, trade in wild birds curtailed, fur farms outlawed, and wild animals prohibited from being displayed in circuses.Yet the creatures with whom we share the country still suffer at our hands. Indeed, they have never faced a more worrying future&

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