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Ruffling Feathers: Cafés Ranked On Their Chicken Welfare
Wednesday, 16 August 2023, 1:51 pm | Animals Aotearoa
The country's largest dedicated coffee chain, Columbus Coffee, is the latest brand to commit to raising the standard in chicken welfare, signing the Australia-New Zealand Better Chicken Commitment for its 75 café locations. Columbus is joined by eight ... More >>
Leading Food Brands Fly Towards Higher Welfare For Chickens
Wednesday, 5 July 2023, 8:58 am | Animals Aotearoa
The Coffee Club, together with chicken restaurant chain Bird On A Wire, are the latest big names to sign the Australia-New Zealand Better Chicken Commitment. Led in New Zealand by advocacy charity Animals Aotearoa, the global policy initiative ... More >>
Open Letter - Animal Organisations’ Easter Call For Accuracy On Egg Ban And Labelling
Saturday, 8 April 2023, 4:24 pm | Animals Aotearoa
This Easter, seven organisations are taking advantage of the focus on eggs in Aotearoa to publish an Open Letter on reporting and labelling. We are calling for accurate reporting on hens in cages, and the use of consistent and clear labelling. This will ... More >>
NZ Animal Welfare Standards Called Into Question By International Report
Wednesday, 1 March 2023, 9:56 am | Animals Aotearoa
Last week, the European Food Safety Authority (EFSA) published a report with clear recommendations to improve the welfare of chickens farmed for meat. The report demonstrates that the current practices used widely in New Zealand's meat industry are compromising ... More >>
World’s Largest Meal Kit, HelloFresh, Joins The Better Chicken Commitment
Tuesday, 22 November 2022, 10:01 am | Animals Aotearoa
HelloFresh is demonstrating a serious commitment to higher animal welfare by signing the Better Chicken Commitment in New Zealand . Advocacy charity, Animals Aotearoa, worked with HelloFresh to achieve this progress. HelloFresh’s commitment follows ... More >>
Nando’s And Pita Pit’s Double-standards On Chicken Welfare Exposed In New Campaign
Wednesday, 16 November 2022, 9:23 am | Animals Aotearoa
Animals Aotearoa has launched a petition to Nando’s and Pita Pit for selling suffering and for failing to provide their New Zealand customers with the same standards of chicken meat as they do overseas. Within the first week, over 1500 people have added ... More >>
New Zealand’s Public Agrees – Factory Farming Puts Profits Ahead Of Climate And Animals
Sunday, 13 November 2022, 5:38 am | Animals Aotearoa
New international opinion polls and billboards in capital cities mark launch of major new celebrity-backed global movement to end factory farming Sixty-four per cent of New Zealand’s adults believe factory farming puts profits ahead of taking ... More >>
Consumers Deserve To Know The Painful Truth Behind Food Delivery Companies
Friday, 5 August 2022, 2:03 pm | Animals Aotearoa
First-of-its-kind ranking report highlights food delivery companies taking important steps to improve chicken welfare in New Zealand and those lagging behind. Animals Aotearoa has today released a ranking report of food delivery service businesses ... More >>
SPCA And Animals Aotearoa Launch Chicken Standards That Raise The Bar For NZ Food Businesses
Thursday, 7 July 2022, 6:12 am | Animals Aotearoa
New Zealand consumers will be able to look forward to higher welfare chicken products available with today’s launch of the Australia-New Zealand Better Chicken Commitment. This commitment has been developed by the New Zealand Society for the Prevention ... More >>
Dead And Dying Chickens - Investigative NZ Footage Exposes ‘Business As Usual’
Wednesday, 17 November 2021, 7:24 am | Animals Aotearoa
Footage obtained by Farmwatch investigators, aired on RNZ Checkpoint yesterday (16.11.21) shows chickens in pain, struggling to walk, and others whose legs have collapsed under their fast-growing bodies. These chickens were on a free-range chicken meat ... More >>
First Step In Domino Effect To Transform NZ Chicken Industry
Friday, 5 November 2021, 9:08 am | Animals Aotearoa
Domino’s Pizza has just announced that it has signed the Better Chicken Commitment to significantly improve how its chicken meat is farmed in New Zealand and Australia. Domino’s is the first food business in New Zealand to sign up to these world-leading ... More >>
