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Today is ‘World Plant Milk Day’ meaning animal protection organisations from across the globe will be celebrating the rising popularity of dairy-free products. Joining forces with ProVeg International and Plant Based News, New Zealand animal rights organisation SAFE is supporting the growing number of Kiwis who want to milk the...

Animal rights organisation SAFE is urging the Government to include experts and advocates from outside the agriculture industry on its newly announced winter crop grazing taskforce. Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor’s taskforce was announced last week following intense public scrutiny over cruel winter crop grazing practices.

New Zealand’s first Cage-Free Egg Directory has launched today, listing businesses who have committed to going cage-free, and those who are yet to produce a cage-free policy. The directory launched by animal rights organisation SAFE, catalogues companies operating across New Zealand with each business’s current status with regards to its...

Caring Kiwis will be making a stand at Napier Port at 12pm on Sunday, August 4, speaking up for the animals that will be loaded onto the Yangtze Harmony. This will be the largest shipment of cattle in two years. Animal rights organisation SAFE and its supporters are protesting the...

Coming up in May, hunters will have something new to concern themselves with, in addition to falling numbers of ducks to shoot. NO ducks to shoot. Local animal groups in the Waikato, the popular area for hunters,  will be making sure fewer ducks are shot this season, which begins 6...

How big is the cage? The cage is 56 square meters and it sits within a disused retail  space with a large window frontage. Each person has no more that 1.2  square meters each. As with caged hens and pigs, there will be just  enough room for each participant to...

Hey kids, our Animal Squad website is now live! You can learn all about animals, find fun and useful ways to help animals, and play our exciting new Animal Tales game. You can even share your stories and ideas on our blog. Sign up before the end of the year...

Putting any animal through stress, and  potentially fear and injury is wrong, especially when it’s in the name  of so-called entertainment. While all rodeo events can cause distress to  the animals made to perform, the case against rodeo is particularly  strong when it comes to the brutal treatment of vulnerable...

Thanks to your support, during the last 12 months SAFE has continued to create continued progress for animals. Not long into 2017 we had a major win for hens when Countdown went  cage-free, and the year ended with pressure on the dairy industry with a  story that went viral. SAFE...

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As more Kiwis crave plant-based alternatives to meat and dairy, animal agriculture industries are pushing back. Federated Farmers are lobbying for plant-based milk to be changed to ‘juice’ and for plant-based sausages to be called ‘tubes’ – but what won’t change are the reasons many of us are choosing these...

Imagine being forced to give birth in a barren, muddy paddock, with no shelter from harsh winter weather, standing in inescapable knee-deep mud.   Every winter in New Zealand this is the sad reality for some cows used for dairy farming. To manage winter feed needs for large numbers of cows, they are grazed on...

Earlier this week, SAFE learnt that the Ministry for Primary Industries had received an application to export 5,400 cows from Napier to China. SAFE emailed the Director-General of MPI and asked him to refuse the application. They have the discretion to refuse any live export application. Yesterday, MPI approved this application, making...

Last week SAFE submitted on the Climate Change Response (Zero Carbon) Amendment Bill. Our submission recommends that the Government acts in the interests of animals, as well as people and our planet, when creating future–thinking climate policy.  Half of New Zealand’s emissions are currently produced by the animal agriculture sector. The majority of on farm emissions are methane. Methane...