RSPCA campaigns
Sir: I was greatly interested to read Aube- ron Waugh's article on Gavin Grant and the RSPCA's current campaign for a dog registration scheme (18 February).
On 22 December last year the RSPCA published an advertisement in the Times (and presumably other newspapers as well) which included a paragraph as follows: 'Salmonella is not confined to battery farming but it certainly intensifies the problem.'
'1 admire her. I wish I had the guts to go vegetarian.'
I have written to the RSPCA twice since Christmas asking them to provide me with the evidence on which they base the allegation that battery farming 'intensifies the problem', but I have yet to receive a reply. May I, through your columns, ask them again?
Whether Mr Grant or somebody else was responsible for the December adver- tisement, it seems that the RSPCA is now prepared to make up whatever stories it believes will attract support to its cause, and disseminate them in the guise of established fact.
Neil Datson
Glebe Farm, Spelsbury, Oxfordshire
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