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Ever been in a crowded theatre or stadium and tried to attract someone’s attention from afar? It’s near impossible unless you enjoy being loud and extroverted or possess champion arm-waving techniques. You could certainly say SAFE is in the extrovert category. We are highly motivated to want to be noticed and there is no denying we have a strong and passionate voice. In a room SAFE easily gets the attention we deserve but at a national level we have to deploy more cunning strategies.

Our arm-waving techniques have recently been deployed in the form of a national advertising campaign and actions around the country. Following last week’s screening of Jamie Oliver’s Jamie’s Fowl Dinners SAFE ran a successful newspaper campaign with adverts appearing in many papers including The Press, The Dominion Post, Sunday Star-Times and Sunday News. We reached over half the nation. The eye-catching advertisements highlighted the appalling state of poultry farming in New Zealand and called for consumer action. SAFE campaign director Hans Kriek appeared on TV One’s Good Morning show and spoke five times on talkback radio. The Oliver programme sparked debate and has the poultry industry trying to diffuse the consumer time-bomb Oliver ignited. We also organised stalls to highlight the plight of battery hens and inserted our flash new leaflet against caged eggs in the New Zealand Geographic magazine. Pet Magazine’s latest issue includes an article and leaflet exposing animal research in New Zealand timed to coincide with a highly successful walk for the animals in Palmerston North. And just recently long-time SAFE supporter and actor Emily Barclay was profiled in the Star-Times’ magazine featuring her work with SAFE.

The New Zealand public is hearing SAFE’s voice loud and clear. You are always welcome to join us. The next few months have equally exciting activities planned including SAFE’s mammoth annual appeal. Please raise your hand to volunteer and be part of this brilliant organisation we have created. We will surely spot you from a mile off (but even better email us just to be sure!!)

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SAFE JOINS OLIVER TO CRY FOWL!
The screening of Jamie Oliver’s controversial programme Jamie’s Fowl Dinners, about the cruelty of modern-day poultry farming, provided a great opportunity for SAFE to expose the unpalatable truth about the New Zealand poultry industry. More ...

BALMY IN PALMY FOR ANIMALS!
The recent Walk for the Animals in Palmerston North, organised by SAFE and Save the Beagles Campaign to protest against animal testing, was a huge success. Despite pouring rain almost 100 people marched around the central city holding placards, banners and wearing animal costumes to voice their opposition to the local animal testing laboratory. More ...

CIRCUS REMAINS PRESSURED
Demonstrations against the Loritz Circus in Auckland have drawn to a close following a campaign that involved letter writing, poster distribution and local SAFE campaigners holding protests outside the circus in Mangere and Manurewa. More ...

CELEBRITY SHOWCASE
EMILY BARCLAY
In the Sunday Star-Times last week the Sunday ’Goodies’ section profiled the lovely Emily Barclay. Emily has long been SAFE’s ambassador. The heart-of-gold film star chats to Bonnie Sumner about the things she holds close to her heart. More ...


SAFE MEETING
CHRISTCHURCH
What Makes Dolphins and Whales Special?
Thursday, 4 September, 7pm, at SAFE, Level 1, 145 Armagh Street Philip Armstrong, Associate Professor of English at the University of Canterbury, will talk about why many people today have special feelings for whales and dolphins. More ...

ANIMAL RIGHTS PODCAST
Episode 10 is now out. This month the panel discuss Jamie Olivier’s controversial show and the euthanasia of a baby humpback whale in Australia as well as take a look at vegetarians in the movies. More ...

HAWKE’S BAY VOLUNTEERS WANTED!
Hawke’s Bay SAFE will be entering a float in the Hastings Blossom Festival Parade on the 13th of September to raise awareness of cruel battery hen farming. More volunteers are required to dress up as chickens and sit in a trailer that will represent a battery cage. Please email hawkesbay@safe.org.nz ASAP if you can help.

LITTLE CHAMPIONS
Elmwood Animal Society
Every now and then someone extraordinary amazes the SAFE team with either their courage or determination to help animals. This week SAFE’s education officer Nichola Kriek met an amazing young advocate for the animals. More ...

SAFE AGM - AUCKLAND
SAFE invites members and supporters to attend its 2008 Annual General Meeting. Come hear about SAFE’s work and achievements for the past year. See the preview of SAFE’s ’Saving Lucy’ television commercial. Call the SAFE office for more information at 09 361 5646.

SAFE AGM at the Ponsonby Community Centre located at 20 Ponsonby Terrace from 3pm - 5pm, Saturday, 27 September. Refreshments to follow.

  

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If white chocolate and fluffy meringues tickle your tastebuds then you’ve come to the right place! This bulletin SAFE has decided to share some new and delicious vegan products with one lucky winner! Enter and you could win a scrumptious food pack valued at $80.

This pack includes a copy of Flip Grater’s The Cookbook Tour cookbook filled with 48 mouth-watering recipes, along with scrumptious treats from Sweet William, Angel Food, Marigold, Rj’s and Blissful.

In the meantime check out the SAFE online shop (choosecrueltyfree.org.nz) for more delectable goodies! To enter email us with your name, postal address and the answer to the following question:

Which Australian pop divas recently visited SAFE’s Cruelty Free Shop in Auckland?

Congratulations to Sarah and Malcolm who have each won a year’s subscription to Organic NZ magazine.

SAFE TALK
CRUEL BEHAVIOUR
A feature where you get to read the views, news and personal ramblings of key SAFE personnel. Humane education officer Nichola Kriek attends a seminar by a leading New Zealand animal researcher and shares with us her thoughts as to what she learnt.

Yesterday I had a lesson in human behaviour. I attended a psychology seminar by Professor Susan Schenk called “What have we learned from self-administration experiments in rat subjects? A focus on MDMA (Ecstasy).” More ...