Could I get Tegal (or their suppliers) charged with animal cruelty? And how would I go about doing that? The way battery chickens are kept is just barbaric, I can't believe that we allow such farming methods in this country.
I've never studied that area of law, but I think you'd probably find that if it could be done, animal protection groups would have done it by now. As I understand it, battery hen farming is legal in NZ and so is not deemed to be cruelty to animals.
There has been a campaign to have it outlawed here as it is being phased out in some countries overseas. I think it was run by WSPA, but I'm not 100% sure.
Posted by: Emba at April 8, 2005 05:46 PMHmmm. I wonder if a good lawyer would challenge that law - like those oddball lawyers up in Auckland that were trying to prosecute farmers for shearing their sheep in the snow...
It just seems odd to me that there are 'SPCA Approved' eggs and 'Others'. Surely if one is certified as *not* being cruel, it leads one to suspect that the others are. And if so, why are we buying torture-certified products?
I need to make a t-shirt or two... or attack a billboard.