Marianne Macdonald, Executive Director

Media Release: Ruffling feathers – Cafés ranked on their chicken welfare

Biggest café name in New Zealand signs on to improve chicken welfare. Columbus Coffee tops the just-released report, ranking popular café chains’ animal welfare policy. The report reveals which brands are lifting their supply chain standards for chickens farmed for meat, and, importantly, which are not. The country’s largest dedicated coffee chain, Columbus Coffee, is theContinue reading “Media Release: Ruffling feathers – Cafés ranked on their chicken welfare”

A dog’s dinner that’s better welfare than our own

Photo of a small golden coloured puppy, looking into the camera, with their head in a bowl that is labelled with a paw print and the word “Food.”

Many pet food companies have much higher welfare standards that human food brands.

Media Release: Leading Food Brands Fly Towards Higher Welfare for Chickens

New Zealand’s first café business to have reached SPCA Certified standards for eggs, The Coffee Club, is demanding better welfare for chickens bred for meat in New Zealand. The Coffee Club, together with chicken restaurant chain Bird On A Wire, are the latest big names to sign the Australia-New Zealand Better Chicken Commitment. Led inContinue reading “Media Release: Leading Food Brands Fly Towards Higher Welfare for Chickens”

Are we eating ourselves to extinction?

A photo of a brightly coloured array of plant-based foods makes up three-quarters of the image. In the right quarter is a photo of pieces of raw meat.

More Money, More Meat – How we are eating our way to the extinction of humanity.

New study compares cost of Better Chicken Commitment and low-welfare chicken

A woman wearing a blue overall, crouching down on the floor of a chicken shed with a clipboard and pen in her hands. Next to her is a bale of straw with small brown and white chickens perched on top. In the background, many small chickens are on the floor of the shed or sat on wooden perches. Natural light in entering the shed via a series of windows.

New study shows cost of giving chickens better lives via the BCC.

Media release: NZ animal welfare standards called into question by international report

A screenshot of the webpage of the EFSA showing the report on the Welfare of broilers on farm.

Marianne Macdonald, Executive Director of Animals Aotearoa, says the EFSA report is yet more evidence that New Zealand’s animal welfare standards are well below par.

Why does Nando’s only care about chickens in some countries?

Nando’s, all chickens deserve better treatment.

Eggsplainer – Why is there an egg shortage right now?

Close-up of the head and neck of a brown feathered hen behind metal bars. Behind and next to her are other hens. There are two orange plastic flaps hanging down beside her and more hens are the other side of the flaps. Metal mesh can be seen at the back of the cage.

What eggs have been banned and how are hens still being farmed?

Passing the buck for egg shortage

Egg shortage shows lack of leadership by the egg industry, who are trying to shift blame away from itself.

Is free range chicken meat really better?

A white chicken with her back to camera, looking around. Standing in a variety of green and red foliage.

Labels such as free range, cage-free and no added hormones can jump out at you, but what do they really mean? What kind of lives did the animals lead? Is free range chicken really better or are there even kinder choices?