First-of-its-kind ranking report highlights food delivery companies taking important steps to improve chicken welfare in New Zealand and those lagging behind.
Category Archives: Chickens
Ready meals, the latest in a long line of companies doing better for chickens
Another win for chickens from Sweden.
New chicken standards raise the bar for New Zealand food businesses
New Zealanders can look forward to higher welfare standards for chickens with today’s launch of the Australia-New Zealand Better Chicken Commitment.
Media release: SPCA and Animals Aotearoa launch chicken standards that raise the bar for NZ food businesses
New Zealand consumers will be able to look forward to higher welfare chicken products available with today’s launch of the Australia-New Zealand Better Chicken Commitment.
Want to learn more about chicken farming? Start here!
What are the lives of chickens that are farmed for meat and eggs really like? And what can we do to improve them?
Why are NZ meal kits lagging so far behind in chicken welfare?
Marley Spoon is one of 42 meal kit companies who are taking animal welfare seriously. NZ meal kits are choosing to continue to profit from cruelty.
Global milestone shows the way forward for companies in Aotearoa.
546 and counting. Global companies are changing the way they source their chicken meat. It is time for us to catch up.
How long do chickens live?
Chickens are very cute; they like exploring and are naturally curious. Sadly, chickens on factory farms don’t get to live a natural life or a very long one.
Farmwatch Investigator Speaks Out
One of the brave volunteer investigators of Farmwatch shares, in a very personal way, just what it was like to gather the footage that was released by Radio New Zealand earlier this week.
Media release: Dead and dying chickens – investigative NZ footage exposes ‘business as usual’
Footage obtained by Farmwatch investigators, aired on RNZ Checkpoint yesterday
(16.11.21) shows chickens in pain, struggling to walk.