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Consumers urged to love chicks at Easter
Tuesday, 22 March 2005, 2:44 pm | SAFE
A new consumer-focused campaign led by animal advocacy organisation SAFE and the national retail franchise The Body Shop is being launched this week to coincide with Easter. The campaign seeks mandatory egg labelling on trays and cartons sold in New ... More >>
Xenotransplantation cruel and dangerous
Tuesday, 1 February 2005, 3:59 pm | SAFE
SAFE, one of New Zealand¹s leading animal advocacy organisations will strongly oppose xenotransplantation as it believes this practice will cause widespread misery and suffering for both humans and animals alike. More >>
Minister challenged over codes
Wednesday, 22 December 2004, 2:34 pm | SAFE
The imminent release of two highly controversial animal welfare codes for pigs and layer hens, has the Minister of Agriculture, Jim Sutton, holding a private media conference for selected media in Wellington at 11am tomorrow. More >>
Circus Code Deplorable - Minister "Weak"
Monday, 20 December 2004, 1:16 pm | SAFE
The Minister of Agriculture, Jim Sutton, today sentenced circus animals to substandard, deplorable conditions unacceptable to most modern zoos. Opponents to circuses with performing animals are outraged that the Code ignores international opinion and accuse ... More >>
Santa Delivers Christmas Joy To Sad Farm Animals
Monday, 13 December 2004, 10:33 am | SAFE
It was a joyous occasion for neglected farm animals today following a visit from Santa to intensive pig, chicken and turkey farms around Canterbury. Roadside goats, horses and kune kune pigs also took great delight savouring fresh, tasty apples, ... More >>
Kids enter SAFE zone to stop animal cruelty
Tuesday, 5 October 2004, 2:55 pm | SAFE
New Zealand students will enter a virtual SAFE zone to help launch "Share the World", an internationally acclaimed animal education programme, via videoconference. More >>
Chick billboards set to ruffle feathers
Monday, 4 October 2004, 11:08 am | SAFE
It¹s billed as a passionate and glamorous last ditch effort against battery hen cruelty in New Zealand. Four sensational high-profile television personalities will appear up-front and personal on billboards being erected this weekend in defence of New ... More >>
Leaked code sanctions hen cruelty
Tuesday, 31 August 2004, 12:33 am | SAFE
A leaked ministerial advisory report and draft copy of the code of welfare governing layer hens, currently before the Minister of Agriculture to ratify, has leading veteran animal welfare campaigners outraged and in disbelief. More >>
Human health at risk from 'sick' chicken industry
Friday, 13 August 2004, 2:16 pm | SAFE
Warnings that antibiotics routinely fed to intensively farmed animals can breed super bugs resistant to human medicine, have once again hit the news. On 60 Minutes this week, John Aitken, a Christchurch micro-biologist, warned that the continued practice ... More >>
Clothesline of shame against animal testing
Thursday, 20 May 2004, 4:39 pm | SAFE
Procter & Gamble, one of the world's largest known animal testers of cosmetic and household products will have their dirty laundry publicly exposed in central Auckland and Christchurch to highlight cruel experimental procedures performed on animals. More >>
Duck Shooters Told Lay Down Your Arms
Thursday, 29 April 2004, 1:18 pm | SAFE
Duck shooters will be told to lay down their arms by anti-duck shooting campaigners on the opening of New Zealand¹s 2004 duck-killing season on the first of May. More >>
Duck shooting season, 1 May - Activists gear up
Monday, 26 April 2004, 4:04 pm | SAFE
SAFE, New Zealand¹s leading animal advocacy organisation will take to the lakes for its fourteenth consecutive year in protest of the opening of duck shooting season. More >>
World Day for Laboratory Animals 24 April
Friday, 23 April 2004, 1:27 pm | SAFE
Anti-vivisectionists in Auckland and Christchurch will hold graphic remembrance ceremonies to commemorate the lives of New Zealand¹s 260,000 animals used for experimentation, on World Day for Laboratory Animals, Saturday 24 April. More >>
MAF vet criticised for horse cruelty
Wednesday, 21 April 2004, 1:15 pm | SAFE
Animal advocates are outraged that horses under the supervision of a Ministry of Agriculture (MAF) veterinarian were found so emaciated that officials had to take immediate action and destroy suffering animals on-site. More >>
World car manufacturer accused of rodeo brutality
Thursday, 1 April 2004, 3:58 pm | SAFE
One of the world's leading car manufacturers and dealerships has been told to buckle up its image by withdrawing its sponsorship of New Zealand rodeo events. National animal advocacy organisation SAFE has asked the Ford Motor Company to explain the ... More >>
Chickens next weapons of Œmass destruction¹?
Tuesday, 9 March 2004, 3:34 pm | SAFE
"Recent media reports that New Zealanders are falling ill after eating chicken comes as no surprise", says Hans Kriek, Campaign Director of SAFE, New Zealand¹s largest animal rights organisation. More >>
Endangered Dolphins Experimentation Unacceptable
Tuesday, 24 February 2004, 9:43 am | SAFE
"The Department of Conservation¹s proposed research experiment to satellite tag three endangered Hectors dolphins is unacceptable," says SAFE Campaigns Director Hans Kriek. More >>
McDonald's campaign "Cruelly deceptive"
Monday, 9 February 2004, 1:50 pm | SAFE
Fast food giant McDonald's has been accused of making deceptive and misleading claims in their recent advertisement, promoting their "Farm Fresh" eggs. More >>
Free Washes For Ugly Mutts To Pampered Pooches
Friday, 12 December 2003, 10:45 am | SAFE
Pooches of all shapes, sizes and character will be treated to free 'scrubs in the tub', pamperings and beach 'bickie-scrambles' at Sumner in Christchurch this Sunday, to promote compassion to animals. The local event coincides with the launch of an ... More >>
"You must be crazy!" Caged protest counts down
Monday, 17 November 2003, 9:30 am | SAFE
Knowing a human is incarcerated inside a tiny cage for 26 hours sparks a resounding response from on-lookers of 'I could never do that, you must be crazy!' 'Not crazy', replies Billy, 'I'm just here to make point!' More >>
