Sainsbury's accused of breaking pledge on chicken welfare
by Sarah Butler from Environment | The Guardian on (#3N7PY)
Supermarket clashes with Compassion in World Farming over award given in 2010
Sainsbury's has been accused of breaking promises on improving welfare conditions for chickens after it handed back a good practice award.
The animal rights pressure group Compassion in World Farming said Sainsbury's applied for the group's "good chicken" award in 2010 and committed to upgrade within five years all its fresh own-label chicken to the RSPCA welfare mark, which involved giving birds more living space and light.
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