Animal Welfare In New Zealand
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Hereford cattle grazing in the Macaulay River valley in South Canterbury. Most cattle remain outdoors for most of the year but wintering barns are sometimes used for dairy cows.
Animal welfare in New Zealand is governed by the Animal Welfare Act 1999 and a number of organisations actively advocate for both animal welfare and animal rights. Pest control and farming practices have be scrutinised with respect to animal welfare issues. The legality of killing dogs and cats for consumption has also be criticized.
Although New Zealand has high animal welfare standards, a 2016 report from the National Animal Welfare Advisory Committee, reviewing the use of farrowing crates on pig farms, found that the pork industry does not accept its requiremts under the Pigs Code of Welfare (2010), and that failure by industry to act in accordance with the Pigs Codes of Welfare (2010) is commonplace.
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Additionally, the Pigs Code of Welfare (2010) contradicts animals rights to express normal patterns of behavior as outlined in the Animal Welfare Act 1999.
As of 2023, two-thirds of pork eat in New Zealand is imported from countries with lower pig welfare standards, such as the United States and Canada, who can accordingly produce it more cheaply.
There were animal welfare concerns on the controversial CraFarms and in June 2011 five people involved with Crafers Taharua Dairy Farm pleaded not guilty to 714 charges of alleged animal welfare offces.
Cared For Cows
In 2013 a farmer was convicted of animal welfare offces after breaking or injuring the tails of 230 cows and he was banned from owning cows. The case was the worst of its type that had be se by the authorities.
A resource const application under the Resource Managemt Act 1991 for the intsive farming of cattle in the Mackzie Basin in 2009 attracted opposition because of concerns over animal welfare, ev though animal welfare is not a part of the RMA. The application was called in under provisions of the RMA.
The usage of 1080 in New Zealand (a pest control and animal health measure) attracts some opposition on animal welfare grounds but a 2007 assessmt of 1080 (sodium fluoroacetate) concluded that the befits outweighed the risks.
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Various vertebrate toxic agts such as 1080, Brodifacoum, Cholecalciferol and so on, kill traps in mammal species, in-burrow rabbit control methods and leg hold traps, rotone, alphachloralose and DRC-1339 looked at the ‘animal welfare impact’ (humaness) of these control tools. The paper describes in detail how various toxins affect differt animals. Information on level of consciousness at various times/evts after dosing are still needed to fully assess its negative experices and humaness.
Animal research is regulated by the Animal Welfare Act 1999 and organisations using animals must follow an approved code of ethical conduct.
This sets out the policies and procedures that need to be adopted and followed by the organisation and its animal ethics committee (AEC).
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In 2009, a Tongan man living in New Zealand cooked his dog in his back yard, which prompted calls to ban the practice, but this did not happ.
On 14 April 2021, the Governmt of New Zealand announced that, in order to raise animal welfare standards, it had decided to phase out the export of livestock by sea by 2023 after a transition period of up to two years. It was the first country in history to do so; activists called on Australia and other states to follow suit.
The Wildlife forcemt Group, a group of three governmt departmts, collectively investigate smuggling to and from New Zealand. The three agcies are the New Zealand Customs Service, the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and the Departmt of Conservation.
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New Zealand is a signatory to CITES (Convtion on International Trade in dangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora) which was set up to sure that international trade in specims of wild animals and plants does not threat their survival. CITES is administered by the Departmt of Conservation.
The Royal New Zealand Society for the Prevtion of Cruelty to Animals (RNZSPCA or more commonly, SPCA), the longest established animal welfare organisation in New Zealand, was formed in Dunedin in 1882 and was inspired by the glish Society for the Prevtion of Cruelty to Animals.
SAFE (Save Animals From Exploitation) is an animal rights advocacy group that has run a number of high-profile campaigns. SAFE ran a campaign against intsive pig farming featuring the comedian Mike King who had previously fronted an advertising campaign that promoted the sale of pork.
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