in the media
Announcements from both the Minister of Agriculture and the New Zealand Pork Industry Board appear to indicate that efforts are finally being made to improve pig welfare in New Zealand. After nearly two decades of campaigning and lobbying the industry and government, SAFE is relieved to hear both parties are finally starting to talk some sense. While naturally cautious and sceptical, SAFE will keep a watchful eye to ensure these promises of improvements don’t become long-winded empty ones.
 
MINDING ANIMALS CONFERENCE
It spanned six days, with six sessions running simultaneously each hour, and was attended by the movers and shakers in the field of human-animal studies. The conference had over 200 presentations with 400 delegates in attendance from 24 different countries. Dale Jamieson called it the ’Woodstock of the animal rights movement’. He wasn’t wrong.
YOUR DONATIONS TO SAFE
TVNZ’s Close Up programme recently investigated some of the country’s leading charities and questioned how much of the money publicly donated was going to third-party professional fundraising companies. So how does SAFE stack up?
SAFE SGM NOTICE
SAFE members are invited to a Special General Meeting next month in Auckland to vote on an amendment to one of the clauses in the SAFE Rules.
SAFE MONEY MAKERS
SAFE has 100 nifty new donation boxes that need to be placed in busy stores, book or music shops and cafes.
inspiring animal profiles
HORSE
The history of mankind is carried on the back of the horse. - Anon.
delicious meat-free recipes
SOUP
Moroccan chickpea and kale
SALADS
Lettuce wraps
SAVOURY
Vegan cheese and spinach pie
campaign updates
MINISTER’S RESPONSE
SAFE welcomes the recent speech given to the New Zealand Pork Industry Board by agriculture minister David Carter, but has some reservations about his motives.
PORK BOARD AGM CHALLENGED
Over 40 SAFE pig welfare campaigners successfully demonstrated outside the New Zealand pork industry annual conference in Christchurch last month.
KNOW YOUR PORK!
The New Zealand pork industry says it is committed to the introduction of labels that will tell consumers how long animals have spent in sow stalls. Listen to NZ Pork Industry Board CEO Sam McIvor on National Radio.
RAT DEATH ART?
SAFE condemned the actions of a student who killed a rat by freezing the animal to death inside a freezer at the University of Canterbury.
 
 
cruelty free giveaways
THE EASTERN’S CD
Hailing from Lyttelton Harbour The Eastern have planted a music seed yielding crops now ripe and ready for harvest. These include whiskey fuelled foot-stomping rhythms and tear jerkin’ blues, and they’ve been nourishing the masses of Christchurch city with musical fodder for quite some time now. SAFE has four of their self-titled albums to give away. To enter simply email us with your name and postal details.ENTER NOW
Congratulations to Liz Johns who has won a gorgeous Trilogy gift pack.
  
 
fancy new shop arrivals
CRUELTY FREE RAZOR
With a triple-blade made in the US and not tested on animals, these hard-to-find razors make the perfect present for compassionate dads this Father’s Day (6 Sept). Razor comes with three refill cartridges. Retails at $19.90.
5 AUGUST 2009 #9
SAFE AT THE PET EXPO
The SAFE team in Christchurch held an eye-catching stall at the Pet Expo last weekend.
SEAL OF APPROVAL!
SAFE congratulates British-based organisation Respect for Animals for achieving an EU ban in the sale of seal products.
VIGIL FOR PIGS
Palmerston North supporters are urged to show their opposition to intensive pig farming by joining a weekend vigil outside a pig factory farm.
SAFE & THE BODY SHOP
SAFE and The Body Shop teamed up for the ’Take a Stand Against Animal Cruelty’ campaign fronted by award-winning actor, and longtime SAFE supporter, Emily Barclay. The campaign was a great success.
wild and watchable!
PUPPY LOVE. A mother’s maternal needs come to the rescue.
IT WAS A STORMY night that brought them together. It was a forbidden union.
FOR THE LOVE of their best friend Rio. Nice one.
staff picks and gems!
PUSS IN BUS
A cat has become such a well-known user of a Devon bus service that its drivers know where to let him off.
STUPID PEOPLE!
Just when you think you have seen it all in comes something even more pathetic and ridiculous!
ABUSED STARS - STUDY
Stars of the show they may be, but elephants, lions and tigers are the wild animals least suited to life in a circus, concludes the first global study of animal welfare in circuses.