animal welfare Archive

  • Steffan Browning

    Secrecy around animal experiments must stop - by Steffan Browning



    The closing down of Valley Animal Research Centre’s (VARC) experimental beagle operation must be just the beginning of closing down inhumane animal experiments throughout New Zealand. The last available statistics (2010) show that at least 56,208 animals suffered medium to very high impact in New Zealand animal experiments in just one year. Secrecy around animal [...] read more
    December 8, 2011 10:00 am - 5 Comments
  • Sue Kedgley

    Govt too chicken to help hens - by Sue Kedgley



    The government quietly released the Hen Code of Animal Welfare today (two years late) –probably hoping that no one would notice it amidst all the fuss about Hone and the opening of Parliament. read more
    February 8, 2011 4:44 pm - 25 Comments
  • frog

    Factory farming in the Mackenzie Basin – again - by frog



    NZ Herald reports: Three companies are trying again to secure land use rights for large-scale dairy farming in the Omarama and Ohau regions of the South Island. They want to develop 16 dairy farms with up to 17,850 cows housed in cubicles. Looks like it’s the same people with the same sort of plans as [...] read more
    October 5, 2010 12:38 pm - 4 Comments
  • Sue Kedgley

    Only a few more votes needed to free the pigs - by Sue Kedgley



    My Animal Welfare (Treatment of Animals) amendment bill was launched today, with the support of all the key animal welfare amendment groups in New Zealand–the SPCA, SAFE and WSPA, as well as the Managing Director of Freedom farms, Gregor Fyfe, and Mike King. My bill will strengthen the Animal Welfare act, and require that practices [...] read more
    September 14, 2010 5:25 pm - 25 Comments
  • Sue Kedgley

    Parliament’s chance to combat animals suffering - by Sue Kedgley



    Most New Zealanders never get to see how pigs and hens suffer in intensive farms in New Zealand, because industrial farms are hidden away, in corrugated iron sheds down back roads in rural areas, and farmers wont let us visit their farms to see for ourselves the conditions that animals are forced to endure in these ‘farms’. read more
    August 25, 2010 6:34 pm - 12 Comments
  • Sue Kedgley

    Animal Welfare bill could be great news for pigs - by Sue Kedgley



    I am delighted my private members bill, the Animal Welfare Amendment (Treatment of Animals) bill has been selected from the parliamentary ballot, and will have its first reading in about a month. read more
    August 5, 2010 4:45 pm - 17 Comments
  • Sue Kedgley

    Is Parliament finally taking animal welfare seriously? - by Sue Kedgley



    After ten years of stony silence on animal welfare in Parliament, and MPs rolling their eyes and cracking jokes whenever I raised animal welfare issues in the House, it was great to hear MPs speaking passionately about the need to stamp out animal cruelty in New Zealand during a debate on the Animal Welfare Amendment [...] read more
    February 19, 2010 2:29 pm - 15 Comments
  • Russel Norman

    The brand vs battery cows - by Russel Norman



    This is how we present our butter to the world: “Only our cows are free to roam all day long. Anchor – the free range butter company”. And this is cubicle factory dairy production – the battery cow. Or this: Cognitive dissonance anyone? read more
    December 9, 2009 7:56 pm - 62 Comments
  • frog

    Business as usual? I hope not, Mr Stiassny - by frog



    Crafar Farms receiver Michael Stiassny is reported by the New Zealand Herald as stating: “We will be doing our best to ensure it is business as usual for the farms.” Unfortunately, this is “business as usual” for the farms in the Crafar group: 2001: A Crafar farm is prosecuted by Environment Waikato after effluent overflowed [...] read more
    October 6, 2009 1:45 pm - 11 Comments
  • frog

    Calves starve to death on NZ’s largest dairy farm - by frog



    Yep, it’s the Crafar boys again. From interest.co.nz: Poor management and the pressures of massive debts obtained during rapid expansion meant this farm was so poorly managed that none of the staff trained the calves to drink milk, allowing them to die of dehydration in a muddy pen even though their trough was often full. [...] read more
    September 29, 2009 11:26 am - 10 Comments
  • frog

    I want to be in a sow crate with Sue! - by frog



    As if it isn’t enough that every politician and his dog is suddenly welling up over our nation’s tortured pigs, last night on Back Benches Peter Dunne claimed to have been in a sow crate with Sue Kedgley. Now, you can’t criticise the man’s taste, but I’m afraid that this is wishful thinking. Sue says [...] read more
    May 21, 2009 11:40 am - 19 Comments
  • frog

    What does the Act say? - by frog



    The Sunday expose on intensive pig farming has pushed the shadowy world of indoor pig farming firmly into the spotlight. TVNZ’s Close-up this evening pitted Mike King (and Safe‘s Hans Kreik) off against Chris Trengrove, the Chair of the Pork Board, resulting in a commitment to random visits of other pig farms to see if [...] read more
    May 18, 2009 8:57 pm - 125 Comments
  • frog

    Animal welfare - by frog



    Animal advocacy group SAFE has just released the results of its animal welfare policy survey, and it was a close run thing for some parties. For last place that is. SAFE campaign director Hans Kriek, who organised the survey, said the results are disappointing. “The two main parties were simply not interested. Neither Labour or [...] read more
    October 15, 2008 1:25 pm - 80 Comments
  • frog

    Animal welfare - by frog



    Cyanide & Happiness @ Explosm.net read more
    September 2, 2008 5:02 pm - 7 Comments