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Category Archives: Sentience
Horrific Footage Exposes Octopus Cruelty as NZ’s Secretive Research Continues
On World Octopus Day, undercover footage reveals that octopuses can suffer for up to 10 minutes when being slaughtered.
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.
169 organisations sign open letter to ban octopus factory farming
169 organisations sign open letter to ban octopus factory farming and demand that NZ government divests from research into octopus farming.
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.
Speaking out against National’s plans to extend NZ aquaculture industry.
We’re opposing the Government’s plans to undermine democracy, and fail to protect animals and our environment, by granting the salmon industry license to continue for decades without review.
How is Denmark leading the way for chickens?
The standards for how chickens bred for meat are treated, in Denmark, is leading much of the world. Find out how this happened.
The life of farmed salmon in New Zealand
Read what life is like on NZ salmon farms, from the perspective of Chinny the Chinook.
Animal sentience and how the law is truly failing animals
The recent announcement that animals are now to be formally recognized as sentient under UK law provides a good basis for campaigners and animal rights activists to push for law change.