Animal suffering has become so normalised that many people are unaware of the harm their lifestyle choices are causing them, the RSPCA’s new Animal Kindness Index has found.
The charity said that while almost seven in 10 (69%) Britons describe themselves as “animal lovers”, animal suffering is regarded as normal “on farms, in labs and in entertainment”.
A “lack of awareness and transparency” is to blame, the charity said, with people “often inadvertently fuelling, funding and furthering poor practices towards animals because they don’t understand the harms these cause”.
