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PM’s Mail Piles Up At Parliament: 100 Parcels For Luxon Stamped “Return To Sender”
Banned in NZ. Imported from abroad. 60% of pork from systems we prohibited. Stop cruel imports. It’s time for Prime Minister Christopher Luxon to act.
Are chickens really killed humanely? What the chicken meat industry doesn’t want you to know.
What the chicken meat industry doesn’t want to you know about how chickens are killed by live-shackle slaughter in New Zealand.
Government wants to cram more hens into sheds. We’ve pushed back.
We’ve submitted against proposed changes to the Layer Hen Code of Welfare that take animal welfare backwards and locks in colony cages.
How do chickens suffer?
Learn about the issues facing chickens bred for meat in Aotearoa.
Ban octopus factory farming
Research into this cruel industry is being funded by the NZ government.
How you can help farmed animals
Take quick and effective actions to help animals in Aotearoa and overseas.
Our focus
As part of the Effective Altruism community, we work to make evidence-based, long-lasting changes to impact the largest number of animals.
There are more than 156 million land animals farmed in Aotearoa New Zealand. Most of them are the chickens bred for meat, who have perhaps the worst lives of any farmed animal. The fishes* that are farmed are so numerous that the aquaculture (fish farming) industry measures them in tonnes, rather than the number of individuals. They also suffer in many ways.
This is why we focus on helping chickens and aquatic animals.
As seen in
'An atrocious idea' - outcry over taxpayer-funded octopus farming research
Misleading chicken packaging complaint to Commerce Commission
Trailer unit crash strewing crates of hens over the road shines a light on grim state of chickens
Pressure on takeaway food chains to ditch 'fast chickens'
Member of the Open Wing Alliance, a global coalition of 80+ animal organisations working together to end the caging of hens for egg production and improve the lives of chickens raised for meat.
Member of the Aquatic Animal Alliance, a global coalition of 100+ animal organisations working together to improve the lives of aquatic animals.
Member of the Asia for Animals Coalition, or AfA, a network of hundreds of animal protection and advocacy organisations working together to improve the well-being of animals across Asia and beyond, and to end animal exploitation and suffering.
* The term ‘fishes’ rather than ‘fish’ is increasingly being adopted by the animal advocacy movement to recognise and emphasize the individuality of the intelligent, feeling individuals we are describing. (The fish-farming industry only measures fishes in tonnes, rather than numbers of individuals.)