Major welfare improvement for RSPCA chicken linked to safer meat for customers

The RSPCA today announced a move which will not only improve the welfare of millions of chickens – under its RSPCA Assured label – but should also make meat safer.
From the new year a procedure known as thinning, where a proportion of chickens are removed from a shed for slaughter earlier than the rest, will be banned for animal welfare reasons on farms rearing to RSPCA standards.