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Urge your MP to protect mother pigs

Your MP works for you – and when they hear from people in their own electorate, it makes a real impact.

Right now, the Government is moving fast to make cruel cages for pigs lawful again. Your MP has the power to speak out and stop this Bill.

Use the form below to send an email directly to your local MP. We’ve written a message to help you get started, but your personal story matters most.

If you can, please take a moment to add your own words. You can mention:

Where you live (so they know you’re a voter in their electorate).

Why you care about pigs and animal welfare.

That you expect stronger animal protection laws.

Even a few sentences written in your own words can make a real difference.

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Let them know why animals matter to you and why this Bill concerns you
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Complete the form below to send your message. You can use our template as-is, edit it, or write from scratch. Every message helps show MPs that New Zealanders will not stand by while cruelty is made lawful.

Your message to your MP:

I’m writing as your constituent to urge you to withdraw your support for the Animal Welfare (Regulations for Management of Pigs) Amendment Bill.

This Bill represents one of the most profound setbacks to Aotearoa’s animal-welfare law in recent history. It seeks to re-authorise confinement systems that the High Court ruled unlawful in 2020, amending the Animal Welfare Act 1999 to permit practices fundamentally incompatible with its purpose.

If enacted, it will allow the continued confinement of mother pigs in crates and stalls so restrictive that they cannot turn around, nest, or comfort their piglets. It will override clear judicial findings, disregard the independent advice of the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, and weaken the legal foundation for animal protection in this country.

Extensive evidence shows that confinement causes physical injury, stress, and frustration to intelligent, social animals. Enshrining such cruelty in law contradicts decades of welfare science and erodes public trust in Parliament’s commitment to evidence-based policy.

The public mandate is equally clear: three in four New Zealanders oppose farrowing crates, and nearly half say they’d be more likely to vote for a party that bans them.

To pass this Bill is to choose convenience over compassion, and politics over principle. I urge you to stand on the right side of history – reject this Bill and restore integrity to Aotearoa’s animal-welfare system.

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