Displaying items by tag: animal welfare

Animal rights protest group PETA is calling for Agriculture Minister Todd McClay to introduce legislation which would make it mandatory to have live-streaming web cameras in all New Zealand shearing shed.

The New Zealand Merino Company (NZM) says it will investigate claims of animal cruelty made by animal rights group PETA.

Shipments of live animals by sea should be possible in the second half of next year, according to Associate Agriculture Minister Andrew Hoggard.

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A Taranaki dairy farmer received four-month home detention and was disqualified from overseeing of animals for 18 months over a lack of feed and welfare which led to some animals being euthanised.

Farmers are being urged to make their veterinarians an integral part of their farm management team.

Pig farmers say the idea that not every pork product sold in New Zealand has to be produced to this country’s own welfare standards is unfair.

A recent review, released at the end of last month, suggests change is needed in how regulations that impact animal welfare are made.

A stock truck driver has been fined $3600 for mishandling goats while transporting them to a meat processing plant.

Otago farmer Carolyn Ireland has been banned from owning cattle and must pay fines of over $23,000 for a range of welfare problems contributing to the deaths of over a dozen cattle.