Farmers Weekly
Broiler growers producing chicken under the RSPCA Assured label (previously branded Freedom Food) are to be banned from thinning their flocks from 1 January 2016. The society says that this will have two main benefits – improving the welfare of the birds and helping to reduce campylobacter levels. In practical terms, this means that growers will have to reduce the number of chicks they take into each shed dedicated to the RSPCA Assured scheme. See also: New RSPCA Assured labels […]
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