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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
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Haroon Siddique Legal affairs correspondent

One in 300 animal welfare complaints at UK farms lead to prosecution – study

Free-range chickens on an English farm
Free-range chickens on an English farm. Photograph: Tim Graham/Getty Images

Just one in 300 complaints about animal welfare at UK farms led to a prosecution over the last four years, with half of the accused holdings not even inspected, analysis has shown.

A report by Animal Equality and the Animal Law Foundation also said that fewer than three in 100 of the UK’s estimated 291,000 farms had an annual inspection by a public body between 2018 and 2021.

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