It focused on isolated cases of abuse, and failed to challenge well-established ways of mistreating animals on farms or in laboratories. It took a concerted effort by the new animal radicals of the 1970’s to stir the RSPCA from its complacency towards the battery cage and other forms of intensive animal rearing.
在1970年代早期，当现代动物解放运动发端之时，没有任何大型组织发起抗议密集笼箱养鸡的行为。英国防止虐待动物协会——也是所有动物保护组织的始祖——早已失去了成立之初的锐气。该协会把焦点放在了某些单独的虐待个案之上，却不去质疑那些在已经在农场和实验室中形成常规的虐待动物行为。最终新一代动物保护分子成功联合起来，才使英国防止虐待动物协会走出这种自以为是的状态，投入到反对密集笼箱养鸡以及其他集中饲喂动物的运动当中。