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”
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Open letter to Aotearoa New Zealand: Cages are still allowed in egg farming
This Easter, we’re joining NZ animal groups caling for transparency for egg labelling and reporting. Read the Open Letter.
Media release: NZ animal welfare standards called into question by international report
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.
Media release: World’s largest meal kit, HelloFresh, joins the Better Chicken Commitment
HelloFresh is demonstrating a serious commitment to higher animal welfare by signing the Better Chicken Commitment in New Zealand.
Media release: Nando’s and Pita Pit’s double-standards on chicken welfare exposed in new campaign
Animals Aotearoa has launched a petition to Nando’s and Pita Pit for selling suffering and for failing to provide their New Zealand customers with the same standards of chicken meat as they do overseas.
Media release: New Zealand’s public agrees – factory farming puts profits ahead of climate and animals
New international opinion polls and billboards in capital cities mark launch of major new celebrity-backed global movement to end factory farming.
Media release: Consumers deserve to know the painful truth behind food delivery companies
First-of-its-kind ranking report highlights food delivery companies taking important steps to improve chicken welfare in New Zealand and those lagging behind.
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.
In the news: Pressure on takeaway chains as Domino’s ditches ‘fast chickens’
Exclusive footage from inside a free-range farm was provided to Radio New Zealand by volunteer investigators at Farmwatch.
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.