FAMOUS KIWIS AGAINST CRUEL BATTERY CAGES

SAFE asked well known kiwis what they thought of keeping hens in cages to lay eggs. This is what they had to say.  The views expressed by the following people are their own and do not necessarily reflect SAFE's position.

Actor Chelsie Preston Crayford, (Underbelly, Home By Christmas, The Cult) says... I am going to come to your house and lock you in a cage just big enough for your body. If that stresses you out, I'm going to cut off your lips. I might break your teeth too, so you can't bite your friends next door (nobody likes a biter). I'm also going to keep you in the semi dark so you don't get too worked up, what with all the excitement of everything. I'm going to keep you like this as long as you're useful, and then, when you inevitably get disease ridden from all of the shit around you all day long (did I mention that? There will be lots of shit) I will send you to the slaughterhouse and make you into cat food, or maybe a pie. Then I will go to the dairy, buy that pie, eat it, and when you are sitting, warm in my belly I will ask you: "Can you afford the free range option yet?		Lindsay from Frenzal Rhomb, the Australian punk rocker, vegetarian band says... I was told everything was better in New Zealand. Better beer, better rugby, better sulphur smelling bubbling mud pools. And sure, you might have them, but you pricks still have battery hen farms! That puts you back as low as your backward cousins west of the Tasman Sea. How dumb. Why not let chickens run around like they wanna, and stop the barbaric cruelty of beaks being burned off, living in their own ammonia-ridden shit, and just generally having a crap time? Come on, you won the World Cup, you can at least do this for your Australian mates.		Actor Michelle Langstone, (The Almighty Johnson's) says... I currently volunteer at Bird Rescue where we are nurturing an ex-battery hen. It's very distressing to see this wee bird's suffering in person. Thankfully, she's going to have a lovely life, and her feathers are growing back at last. It is just unfathomable, the treatment of those birds. I honestly think that if everyone got to see this little hen, and what's she's been through, they'd never buy cage eggs again.
Actor Dean O'Gorman (The Almighty Johnson's much-loved Anders) says... Now that we have a choice, why would we choose the option that knowingly causes an animal harm?		Award-winning film maker and TV director (Outrageous Fortune, Go Girls), Peter Salmon says... When I was a kid I remember visiting family friends, who lived in a house that was next door to a poultry farm. My brother and I explored the old windowless sheds and what we discovered inside changed me forever. Stretched out in the dark; hundreds of small wire cages barely the size of a hen; tiny prisons stacked high in all directions. This was a torture house. No place for anything with a beating heart. I learnt that day what happens before the egg hits your plate. With that knowledge there can be no turning back. Cage farming is barbaric and medieval. We must change, evolve, move forward! If we don't we'll continue to live in the dark ages.... and that....well, that's just plain depressing.		Comedian, stuntman and Jackass star, Steve-O, says... I'm sure this is going to sound ironic, coming from a guy who's made a living out of hurting himself, but consuming eggs just isn't healthy. Furthermore, consuming eggs from hens who have been tortured by a life of being crammed into a tiny cage is extra unhealthy. It's impossible not to take on negative energy when we put it into our bodies, and that's what happens when you eat those eggs. The cruelty of keeping hens in battery cages should be banned in New Zealand, please help to make that happen.

The Wellington International Ukulele Orchestra say...
It's wrong that most hens are cooped up in small cages for all of their lives. Hens have feelings too, man! Lets lose the chicken coop and bring back the chicken run!