Not surprising at all. A lot of the cruelty happening on farms is actually legal and standard practice. Consumers either turn a blind eye or simply aren’t aware that it happens.
I wonder how many animal rights activists report welfare crime just because they don’t agree with it.
I work for APHA and will tell you that we try to get to these people as much as we can. The issue is that, ot takes a lot of vet visits and meticulously amassing evidence to get anywhere near a court. The end result is that they might get banned from keeping animals for a while – very rarely a prison sentence or meaningful fine.
Also we are woefully paid so just as you are getting water companies ‘regulating’ themselves with regards to pollutants because the Environment agency has been stripped back, more unscrupulous farmers will get away with psychopathic treatment of animals.
Because there is more desire for meat, dairy and eggs than there is compassion for animals. People either don’t care or are unaware of how bad it can be out there. They think their animal products come from farms where welfare standards are very high, yet most supermarket and restaurant meat comes from factory farms that only meet minimum standards. Abattoirs are no different. The fact is that people are happy to ignore animal agriculture and its evils because they would rather not think about what they support.
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Not surprising at all. A lot of the cruelty happening on farms is actually legal and standard practice. Consumers either turn a blind eye or simply aren’t aware that it happens.
I encourage everyone to have a read about what we do to UK farm animals:
[https://eatfair.org/welfare/united-kingdom](https://eatfair.org/welfare/united-kingdom)
Farmer prosecuted yesterday:
https://www.daera-ni.gov.uk/news/farmer-convicted-downpatrick-court
I wonder how many animal rights activists report welfare crime just because they don’t agree with it.
I work for APHA and will tell you that we try to get to these people as much as we can. The issue is that, ot takes a lot of vet visits and meticulously amassing evidence to get anywhere near a court. The end result is that they might get banned from keeping animals for a while – very rarely a prison sentence or meaningful fine.
Also we are woefully paid so just as you are getting water companies ‘regulating’ themselves with regards to pollutants because the Environment agency has been stripped back, more unscrupulous farmers will get away with psychopathic treatment of animals.
Because there is more desire for meat, dairy and eggs than there is compassion for animals. People either don’t care or are unaware of how bad it can be out there. They think their animal products come from farms where welfare standards are very high, yet most supermarket and restaurant meat comes from factory farms that only meet minimum standards. Abattoirs are no different. The fact is that people are happy to ignore animal agriculture and its evils because they would rather not think about what they support.