by Sue Kedgley
Hats off to Jan Cameron, the founder of Kathmandu, for donating $2 million to SAFE (Save Animals from Exploitation) to help get rid of sow crates and other forms of cruel factory farming.
As well as using the money to encourage workers to speak up about cruel factory farming practices, SAFE plans to set up a team of lawyers to help fight strategic court cases around animal welfare. And it will continue to hi-light cruel farming practices so that consumers can see for themselves the conditions that intensively raised animals are forced to endure.
I can’t think of a more deserving organisation than SAFE to get this money. They—and in particular Hans Kriek—have been battling away, for the most part on the smell of an oily rag—for more than a decade, trying to get the industry and the government to end animal cruelty.
Surely Jan Cameron’s donation to SAFE will make the industry realise that the writing is on the wall—that they are going to be forced to abandon cruel farming practices that they have tried to keep hidden away from consumers for many years.
You would think that the government would also work this out, too, and instead of defending the pork industry board, and the vested interests that want to keep animals in cages, they would take a lead in getting rid of animal cruelty.
You would think the Government would vote for the animals, and support my private members bill which would phase out cruel farming practices such as the sow crate and the battery hen cage, instead of behaving like King Canute and voting to stop it from even being discussed.
Published in Environment & Resource Management by Sue Kedgley on Mon, November 8th, 2010
Tags: Hans Kriek, SAFE
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http://whoar.co.nz/2010/govt-may-ban-pig-farming-practices/
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Thank for the post Sue
. This money is surely a great thing. Hopefully it helps …
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What’s needed is a reward for farming good practice. Farms that are certified sow-crate free should have a logo that they can put at their gate and on their produce.
I’d like safe to find and accolade the good guys as much as vilifying the wankers
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In Austria animal rights groups targeted a right wing party in election year that was the only one not to support animal welfare reforms. They got what they wanted (albeit after some very oppressive police harassment in Hitler’s own country). Until now it has not been possible to do this in New Zealand, because both major parties sold out to the animal abuse industry. In fact Labour’s record on animal welfare after 9 years in power was worse than National’s. However, now with all parties except ACT and National supporting Sue’s bill, we can make a concerted effort to totally crush National in the polls. We can forget about ACT; they are proving quite adept at self-destructing without any help.
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We would like the government to recognise that there is a massive cruelty problem with puppies and dogs kept in tiny cages, or on chains, in 24/7 daily lifelong misery – thousands of them in New Zealand’s cities and suburbs. We urgently need laws which put an end to this massive display of cruelty
Zara Smith
Chief Executive Officer
Dog Abuse Prevention Society New Zealand (DAPSNZ)
dapsnz@gmail.com
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