The SPCA has renewed its call for a ban on sow stalls and farrowing crates. The issue of the extreme confinement many pigs are forced to live in was highlighted on a recent edition of TVNZ’s Sunday programme. Watch TV One’s Sunday programme footage.
Wellington SPCA is urging people to support the call for a ban on this barbaric form of farming. You can help by:
- Only purchasing free-range pork/bacon labelled ‘free farmed’ or ‘free range’ or bearing the blue ‘SPCA Approved’ sticker on the packaging. This is not as expensive as you think! For example, at New World Chaffers Street on 9 June 2009, Freedom Farms free range pork chops were priced at only 26 cents a kilo more than non free range pork chops. Often these products are priced the same!
- Write to the Minister of Agriculture and express your disgust.
Hon. David Carter, Minister of Agriculture
Parliament Buildings
Wellington
email: d.carter@ministers.govt.nz alternate email: cartermp@xtra.co.nz
- Write to your local MP asking them to lobby the Minister of Agriculture to ban this sow stalls and farrowing crates. A list of MPs and their contact details can be found here
- Write to the Chairman of the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee (NAWAC), requesting immediate revision of the Code.
Peter O’Hara, Chairman
NAWAC
c/o MAF
PO Box 2526
Wellington 60001
