Today, Brexit brings with it much potential change for animal welfare, whether good or bad. The next year will test how reliable the Government's promises are Now, as we leave the EU, there is a real opportunity to finish off this campaign.
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Although the great British public responded with a tremendous surge of support we're still talking about how to stop them now, over 40 years later. In 1978, I led the RSPCA's first-ever street demonstration (which was against live exports), in Dover. I remember sitting with them, arguing for campaigns against battery cages, pig stalls, veal crates, intensive cattle systems and, of course, unnecessary long-distance transportation and live exports. Peter and Ruth both became RSPCA trustees in the 1970s. I also worked alongside Hampshire farmer, Peter Roberts, who set up Compassion in World Farming (CIWF) in 1967. I campaigned briefly with Ruth Harrison, whose book Animal Machines (1964) did much to awaken public awareness of cruel modern intensive methods. Intensive methods were introduced after the Second World War and, growing up in the countryside, I saw terrible cruelty to farm animals - often caused by human ignorance or poverty. Thanks to Martin and others, live farm animals had disappeared from the towns and cities where most people lived and were then forgotten as a consequence. Ending live exports has always been in the RSPCA's DNA As modernisers, we managed to revive it in a way that, I hope, Wilberforce and Martin would have approved of. When I first joined the RSPCA in 1971, our original parliamentary function as a pressure group had been neglected. Gradually, in 1875, laboratory animals were also focused on and then in 1911, we expanded our work to include pets and wild animals. Throughout the Victorian era, it was the cruel treatment of horses and farm animals that drove the SPCA forward. In the 1830s, the young Princess Victoria joined our ranks. He then went on to help set up the SPCA (as we were then known) in 1824, assisted by other MPs including William Wilberforce, who you may know as a leader of the movement to abolish the slave trade. The cruel treatment of horses and farm animals drove us forwardĪssisted by Lord Erskine, Martin passed the world's first-ever parliamentary legislation against cruelty to animals, in 1822. These animals were sometimes taken hundreds of miles, all the way from their pastures to uncontrolled slaughter in the centres of our cities in the 1820s. Richard Martin MP and some of our other founders were appalled by the way pigs, sheep and cattle were whipped and driven through the streets. The RSPCA started with farm animals and with political lobbying. A blog by RSPCA President, Richard Ryder.
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