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Animal rights organisation SAFE says the Government has failed to take its animal welfare responsibilities seriously during the Cabinet reshuffle, which has left the position of Minister responsible for animal welfare vacant. Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern has today revealed her Government’s reshuffled Cabinet, leaving a vacant position in animal welfare....

Original Foods Baking Co. is baking the world a better place for hens by ditching cage eggs.  One of New Zealand’s most established wholesale bakeries, Original Foods Baking Co. (Original Foods), has announced it will be phasing out cage egg ingredients from its entire range of baked goods by 2027....

International Awareness Day to Stop Live Transport on June 14, 2019, saw caring Kiwis outside Parliament, speaking out against the cruelty of the live export trade. Animal rights organisation SAFE and more than 50 animal groups globally were highlighting the cruelty of live export, marking the anniversary when 13,000 sheep...

The Government’s plan for a possible ban on the live export of cattle doesn’t go far enough, according to animal rights organisation SAFE. In a statement released on Tuesday, June 6, 2019, Agriculture Minister Damien O’Connor indicated the Government was considering several options following a review of the export of...

A Paradise duck was the victim of stray shotgun pellets on May 19, 2019, and required urgent veterinary treatment to prevent further suffering. The duck, who has been named Honey, was lucky enough to have found refuge at the Wellington Bird Rehabilitation Trust’s (WBRT) sanctuary, in Ohariu Valley. WBRT founding...

On World Day for Laboratory Animals, observed on 24 April, two brave rescue rats named Felix and Veritas returned to Victoria University of Wellington to deliver an important message.  At Victoria University, rats are subjected to an experiment known as the ‘Forced Swim Test’. The test involves placing a small animal such as a rat...

We are a huge step closer to seeing a world where hens don’t suffer in cages. Within 24 hours of the campaign launching, Hilton Hotel Group released a public statement announcing a new policy to phase out cage eggs in all its hotels globally by 2025. Just yesterday, over 55...

Hotel groups, Hilton and Best Western, are being urged to go cage-free worldwide by over 55 major international animal protection organisations as part of a global campaign. The coordinated campaign, asking Hilton and Best Western to use exclusively cage-free eggs, has just launched out of Europe at the 2019 summit...

SAFE is excited to announce the country’s second largest foodservice company, Service Foods, has produced a 2025 cage-free policy for all shell eggs.    Over Easter, SAFE delivered a giant Easter card asking Service Foods to have a heart for hens and name the date it will officially go cage-free. We were delighted to see this struck a chord...

The duck shooting season started on May 4, 2019, and hundreds of thousands of birds will die slow, painful deaths as a result. SAFE wants duck shooting banned in New Zealand due to the high numbers of birds, including natives that are wounded and maimed, and die slow and painful...

Compassionate Kiwis are ditching animal products and opting for kinder plant-based foods, according to new figures from Horizon Research. The Horizon Research poll shows there has been a rise in conscious food purchases over the past three years. Kiwis are eating less meat, dairy and fish products, and the majority...

Today marks the start of Meat-Free May! And this year Eat Kind are focusing on YOU! Join us, as we delve into all the amazing health benefits of a plant-based diet.  Alongside Kiwi medical professionals we are encouraging Kiwis to remove meat from their menus throughout May. Get ready to experience how...

Big chicken corporations are conning Kiwis into paying more for meat that is labelled free-range, despite the fact that the conditions these birds are kept in are almost indistinguishable from the standard in factory farm sheds. Footage released by SAFE on April 30, 2019 showed dead and dying chickens in...

SAFE released footage on April 30, 2019 from an Auckland chicken farm that would shock most meat-eaters. The footage showed dead and dying chickens; including stranded birds that have fallen on their backs, unable to get up. Many of the chickens have red-raw skin, as a result of lying in...