The Sustainable Chicken Forum pits sustainability against animal welfare. But a chicken industry built on Frankenchicken suffering was never sustainable to begin with.
Category Archives: Science
Bird Flu Explained: From Bird Symptoms to Food Safety, All You Need to Know
Bird flu outbreak in New Zealand – what you need to know and what it means for the birds involved in the outbreak.
Cultivated Meat in New Zealand: What You Need to Know
Cultivated meat is real meat grown in vats in a lab from animal cells, without slaughter. Learn what it means for people and the planet in New Zealand.
Over One Million Voices Call for an End to Factory Farming
Over one million people worldwide have called on the UN to end factory farming and create a fair, sustainable food system for animals, people, and the planet.
Media Release: Roaring call for Government to halt funding of cruel octopus farming
As legislations that ban octopus farming and the sale of farmed octopus products proceed worldwide, New Zealand is urged to cease wasting funds to establish the practice.
Trailer crash reveals chickens’ grim lives
Traffic crash in Canterbury causes yet another trailer load of chickens to overturn, spilling birds over the road and revealing animals suffering poor health.
Free-range chickens still suffer
While free-range certainly makes a huge difference to the welfare of pigs and hens used for egg production, it is a different story for chickens bred for meat.
The life of a parent bird
This is Willow. Find out about her life, trapped in a shed to produce eggs hatched to rear the chickens killed for meat.
Cracking the code on chicken meat: Why woody breast and white striping are a sign of poor farming practices
Posts on Reddit and Facebook are exposing some of the negative sides of the chicken industry.
Meat-Free Monday: How to Swap Chicken Meat for a Tasty Plant-Based Alternative
Have all your questions about chickenless chick’n answered here.