The Enforcement Problem: New report exposes how welfare abuse inside factory farms (including salmon) slips through the inspection net!

 

 

A new report – 'The Enforcement Problem' – published by Animal Equality and the Animal Law Foundation exposes the lack of enforcement with respect to welfare abuse on factory farms (including salmon):

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #1 report

 

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #2 Animal Law report Nov 2022 #3

 

 

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #4

 

 

The report includes:

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #5

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #6

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #7

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #8

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #9

 

 

Here's undercover footage inside The Scottish Salmon Company published  by Animal Equality in February 2021:

 

 

 

 

The Animal Equality and Animal Law Foundation report – 'The Enforcement Problem' – highlighted the woeful lack of welfare enforcement and made specific reference to undercover investigations at salmon farms in Scotland:

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #10

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #11

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #12

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #13

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #14

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #15

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #16

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #17

 

 

Strangely, the Animal Equality and Animal Law Foundation report ignores specific reference to extensive undercover investigations inside salmon farms across Scotland carried out by Compassion in World Farming, Inside Scottish Salmon Feedlots, Scottish Salmon Watch and $camon $cotland.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

The Guardian reported (8 November 2022):

 

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #1 Guardian

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #2 Guardian

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #3 Guardian

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #4 Guardian

Animal Law report Nov 2022 #5 Guardian

 

 

 

Scottish Salmon Watch wrote to the Secretary of State in April 2021:

 

 

 

Letter to DEFRA from SSW on systemic failures to capture evidence of welfare abuse 20 April 2021 #2

CIWF Scottish Salmon Investigation March 2021 Graphics #3

 

 

 

 

 

 

Letter to DEFRA from SSW on systemic failures to capture evidence of welfare abuse 20 April 2021 #4

Letter to DEFRA from SSW on systemic failures to capture evidence of welfare abuse 20 April 2021 #6

 

 

 

 

 

 

Read more via:

Open Letter to the RSPCA & ASC – please stop certifying Scottish salmon as "responsibly farmed"!

Video Exclusive: Secret Filming Exposes Horrific Welfare Abuse Inside RSPCA Assured Scottish Salmon Farms

Closing the Net on Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms – Scottish Veterinary Service replaces APHA

EXPOSED: Salmon Scotland's Dirty Trade in Cleaner Fish

Videos of Welfare Abuse at The Scottish Salmon Company in Loch Carron (West Strome salmon farm)

Breaking News: "Horror Videos Reveal Welfare Abuse Inside Scottish Salmon & Trout Cages"

Press Release: "Secret Filming Exposes Welfare Abuse at RSPCA Assured Mowi – Campaigners call for Mowi to be fined & RSPCA certification rescinded"

Secret Filming Exposes RSPCA ‘Abused’ Scottish Salmon – Welfare Complaint Filed Against M&S Supplier Scottish Sea Farms

Letter to Secretary of State re. Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms

Whitewashing Welfare Abuse of Scottish Salmon (as sponsored via RSPCA, SSPCA & APHA)

Revealed: The Farmed Salmon Crisis

Media Backgrounder: The Welfare Nightmare of Scottish Salmon (Updated)

Covid measures ‘didn’t affect farmed salmon welfare’ claim Marine Scotland Science (who were not allowed to inspect farms for half of 2020)!

Ongoing welfare abuse & unnecessary suffering on salmon farms – why no prosecutions?

RSPCA Suspend Salmon Farm Inspections

Censored: Welfare Abuse on Salmon Farms

Photo Dossier of Diseased, Deformed & Abused Scottish Salmon

Welfare Abuse on Scottish Salmon Farms – Legal Action Vs Scottish Ministers & Salmon Farming Companies

Welfare Abuse at Scottish Salmon Farms – Why No Legal Enforcement Or Prosecutions?

Legal Complaint Vs Breaches of Animal Health & Welfare (Scotland) Act

 

 

 

 

 

 

ADDENDUM:

 

From: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 2:05 PM
Subject: FOI re. welfare of salmon farms since 1 April 2020
To: SM-APHA-Enquiries APHA <enquiries@apha.gov.uk>, <APHA.Scotland@apha.gov.uk>
Cc: APHA Corporate Correspondence <apha.corporatecorrespondence@apha.gsi.gov.uk>

 

Please provide information on welfare inspections, welfare assessments, welfare investigations and welfare abuse relating to salmon farms in Scotland since 1 April 2020.
 
Please include letters, enforcement notices, emails, photos, videos, inspection reports, documents and any other information relating to welfare abuse, welfare inspections, welfare investigations and welfare assessment of salmon farms in Scotland.
 
Please also specify the number of salmon farm visits attended by APHA from 1 May 2020 to 8 November 2022. 
 
Please note that a FOI reply by APHA on 11 May 2020 detailed:
 
APHA visits 2013 to 2020
 
 
 
Please note from today's Guardian newspaper which reported:
 
The APHA said: “We take breaches of animal welfare legislation very seriously and investigate every allegation that is reported to us.”
 
 
 
 
In particular, please provide information – including emails, letters, enforcement action, photos, videos, documents and any other details – relating to welfare complaints submitted by Scottish Salmon Watch and $camon $cotland in May 2021, July 2021, September 2021 and July 2022; namely:
 
 
– 19 June 2021 vs Mowi salmon farms (Poll Na Gille, Port Na Cro, SW Shuna & Bagh Dail Nan Ceann): https://donstaniford.com/welfare-complaint-filed-vs-mowis-rspca-assured-responsibly-sourced-scottish-salmon-/
 
– 7 September 2021 vs The Scottish Salmon Company (West Strome in Loch Carron): https://donstaniford.com/welfare-complaint-vs-the-scottish-salmon-company-in-loch-carron-7-september-2021/
 
 
 
Over and above the welfare complaints cited above, please provide information on any other welfare issues relating to salmon farms held by APHA since 1 April 2020. 
 
Please consider this a formal FOI request under the relevant FOI and Environmental Information regulations.
 
Please provide a receipt for this FOI request.
 
Please provide the information requested electronically.
 
Thanks,
 
Don Staniford
 
Director, $camon $cotland
 
 
 
 

From: SM-APHA-Enquiries APHA <enquiries@apha.gov.uk>
Date: Tue, Nov 8, 2022 at 3:05 PM
Subject: Acknowledgement ATIC2927
To: Don Staniford <salmonfarmingkills@gmail.com>

 

Ref: ATIC2927

Dear Don Staniford

Thank you for your request for information about salmon farm welfare inspections, which was received on 08 November 2022.  Your request is being considered in respect to the access to information legislation.

As required by the legislation, APHA aim to answer your request within 20 working days from the date we received it.  If for any reason APHA are unable to meet this deadline, you will be kept fully informed of the reasons for this.

In the meantime, if you have any queries, please contact the Access to Information Team at the email address below.

 

ACCESS TO INFORMATION TEAM

Email: enquiries@apha.gov.uk

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