Activists must break law to expose cruelty and save lives
03/04/2011 A month ago they chained themselves to the top of silos at a battery hen farm to draw attention to the plight of battery hens. Today they are nursing rescued battery hens they took during a daring rescue last night. READ MORE HERE
Activists chain themselves to battery hen farm in protest against cruel cages
23/02/2011 Activists from Coalition to End Factory Farming (New Zealand Open Rescue, Animal Freedom Aotearoa and the Wellington Animal Rights Network) staged a civil disobedience action at a battery hen farm located in Tuakau recently READ THE REPORT HERE
More cruelty exposed in recent intensive pig farm investigation
23/1/2011 New Zealand Open Rescue recently investigated a North Island intensive piggery where we documented disgusting conditions inside farrowing and fattening buildings. Sadly these conditions are nothing out of the ordinary - in fact they are the norm. Its up to the public of New Zealand to make real change for animals imprisoned on factory farms across our country. Read more about the investigation here and view the photographs here ...
Government bans sow stalls!
16/12/2010 The Code of Welfare for Pigs has finally been released by the government with the unprecedented announcement that sow stalls will be banned in 5 years time!
However equally cruel farrowing crates will remain legal. Farrowing crates are used by over 60 percent of the New Zealand pig industry.
New Zealand Open Rescue will continue to expose pig industry cruelty and urges consumers to go pork free!
However equally cruel farrowing crates will remain legal. Farrowing crates are used by over 60 percent of the New Zealand pig industry.
New Zealand Open Rescue will continue to expose pig industry cruelty and urges consumers to go pork free!
Dob in your Boss! Factory farming industries feeling the pressure!
25/11/2010 Pigs and chickens have found a powerful and wealthy ally. A mystery multi-millionaire is promising rewards of thousands of dollars to farm workers who report their employers for cruelty to animals. There's a $2 million war chest aimed at freeing pigs, and chickens crowded into cages. It's a new offensive in the war against sow crates and battery farming and the millionaire has pledged to spend until the job is done. TVNZ's Sunday brings you the story. Watch it here! Footage of pig farms in this item was shot by New Zealand Open Rescue at typical facilities across the country.
Draft Code of Welfare for Broiler Chickens is now open for public submissions
16/10/2010 The draft Code of Welfare for Broiler Chickens is now open for public submissions. Submissions close on 8 November 2010.
Have your say! Read the draft code at the MAF website and email your submission to animalwelfare@maf.govt.nz
Have your say! Read the draft code at the MAF website and email your submission to animalwelfare@maf.govt.nz
A look inside NZ's meat industry: thousands of Spring lambs dying around the country
10/09/2010 Every year in New Zealand hundreds, sometimes thousands, of Spring lambs die on farms where they are exposed to brutal weather conditions.
New Zealand Open Rescue takes a look at some of the casualties at a North Island sheep farm.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES.
New Zealand Open Rescue takes a look at some of the casualties at a North Island sheep farm.
WARNING: GRAPHIC IMAGES.
New Zealand Open Rescue at the 2010 Vegetarian Food & Lifestyle Festival in Auckland soon!
This year the Auckland Vegetarian Food & Lifestyle Festival will be held at the ASB Showgrounds, Sunday 10th October from 10am.
New Zealand Open Rescue will be holding a stall at the Festival and we hope to see you there!
New Zealand Open Rescue will be holding a stall at the Festival and we hope to see you there!
John Darroch defends non-violent civil disobedience for pigs
19/08/2010 John Darroch and his support crew held a peaceful protest outside the Hamilton Disctrict Court this morning prior to the hearing. The protest was well received by the public with many people offering us words of support and wishing John the best of luck in court!
Read John's personal message about what happened today in our BLOG and check out photos HERE
Read John's personal message about what happened today in our BLOG and check out photos HERE
Pig protestor in court after civil disobedience against farming practices
18/08/2010 New Zealand Open Rescue activist John Darroch, will appear in Hamilton District Court tomorrow morning defending charges after chaining himself to a piggery in Roto-O-Rangi near Cambridge earlier this year. Darroch is charged with trespass and unlawfully being in a building.
Darroch chained himself to a 6-m tall silo on the Roto-O-Rangi piggery in protest against legalised cruelty within the New Zealand pork industry. Read more in our BLOG
Darroch chained himself to a 6-m tall silo on the Roto-O-Rangi piggery in protest against legalised cruelty within the New Zealand pork industry. Read more in our BLOG
Free range egg production - not all it's cracked up to be
26/07/2010 Recently New Zealand Open Rescue inspected a free range egg production facility located in the lower North Island. This facility was a small scale commercial operation but we were shocked at what we uncovered.
Read more in our BLOG
View photographs from our investigation here
Read more in our BLOG
View photographs from our investigation here
Scenes of horror at Colin Kay piggery - what will it take to shut him down?
23/07/2010 15 months after New Zealand Open Rescue and former Pork Industry front man Mike King investigated Colin Kay’s Levin piggery, the Open Rescue team has inspected the farm again - only to find that, unbelievebly, the conditions for the pigs have actually worsened. Read more in our BLOG!
Extended and uncut video footage of Kay's horror farm coming soon! Watch this space!
Extended and uncut video footage of Kay's horror farm coming soon! Watch this space!
Kay's horror farm exposed!
Watch uncut footage of NZ Open Rescue's recent investigation at Colin Kay's horror piggery in Kuku Beach, Levin. Sadly, Kay's farm is not an isolated incident. Open Rescue routinely finds the same suffering and misery on pig farms across the country. Our animal welfare legislation is failing these animals.
To view the video in a larger format, please visit our YouTube page
To view the video in a larger format, please visit our YouTube page
Piglets saved from living nightmare
19/04/2010 The Open Rescue team has saved two piglets from a typical New Zealand pig farm. These piglets will now never have to endure the legalised confinement and deprivation that their mothers still endure ... Read more in our BLOG
For pigs still trapped in these hell holes all over the country please make an e-submission against pig cruelty now! www.lovepigs.org.nz
For pigs still trapped in these hell holes all over the country please make an e-submission against pig cruelty now! www.lovepigs.org.nz
New video urges consumers to take a stand for pigs!
New Zealand Open Rescue has released a new video urging consumers to take a stand against pig cruelty! Now is the time for the New Zealand public to stand up and speak out against the atrocities happening behind the closed doors of pig factory farms in our ‘clean, green’ country. Act now! Make a submission!
To see the video in a larger format go here
To see the video in a larger format go here
"Vegan in chains" cut free from pig farm
12/04/2010 New Zealand Open Rescue member John Darroch was cut free from the silo at the Roto-O-Rangi Piggery last night at around 9pm. John appeared in the Hamilton District Court this morning facing a charge each of trespass and unlawfully being in a building.
"While the action was obviously successful I found it depressing to be on a pig farm for that long with little else to focus on, the screams of the pigs during the evening were particularly disturbing" says John.
TV3 screened another item on John's protest and the plight of pigs following his court appearance today. Watch it here
"While the action was obviously successful I found it depressing to be on a pig farm for that long with little else to focus on, the screams of the pigs during the evening were particularly disturbing" says John.
TV3 screened another item on John's protest and the plight of pigs following his court appearance today. Watch it here
Civil disobedience highlights factory farming cruelty
11/04/2010 New Zealand Open Rescue member John Darroch has today began an occupation of a pig farm near Cambridge, locking himself to a silo on the farm. Darroch is taking this action to draw attention to the cruelty inherent in factory farming. Supporters with banners, placards and pig costumes are also outside the farm. Darroch is prepared to stay in his position occupying the factory farm for up to two days ... Read more in our BLOG
Shocking legalised pig cruelty exposed
09/04/2010 New Zealand Open Rescue has recently conducted another series of investigations into typical New Zealand pig farms. Our cameras have revealed, yet again, shocking animal cruelty. However, the cruelty exposed is in fact standard industry practice and is legally sanctioned. None of the farms we investigated were in breach of animal welfare legislation, yet inside every farm we were witness to extreme suffering ... Read more in our BLOG
