the dunedin mainland poultry farms are horrific colony cage operations at scale
the owners have done very well to get shot of them before human health and animal welfare sinks that miserable fucking ship for good
now we need to keep foot on gas to eliminate these destructive businesses despite them now having enough foreign capital behind them to buy and sell our major political parties many times over
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for the avoidance of any doubt, colony cages now are WORSE than battery cages were
1. they are slightly larger
2. THEY HAVE MORE CHICKENS PER CAGE
nothing else about the concentration of cruelty, animal (including human) suffering, disease, pollution, and general exploitative nature of the operations changed, but the conversions to “colonies” shifted the focus and discourse and only served to delay the inevitable implosion of factory farming under its own unsustainable weight
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@ptoothfish Just looked at the SPCA site - 'each hen confined to colony cages has approximately 750 square centimetres to live out her entire life. This is just a bit larger than an A4 sheet of paper'.
I see that, as of last October, Woolworths' eggs are now 100% cage-free - the other lot are supposedly following suit by the end of next year. Not sure how many are shifting to barns - but it's hard to disagree with the SPCA position re layer hens, as a minimum (https://www.spca.nz/advocacy/position-statements/article/layer-hen-housing).
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