Pig Cruelty Won’t Stand Under Green Government

Pig Cruelty Won’t Stand Under Green Government

The phase out of farrowing crates should have been legislated today but Luxon’s Government has instead legalised 10 more years of misery for mother pigs and their piglets.

Pig Cruelty Won’t Stand Under Green Government – Greens

The Government has passed its Bill to keep mother pigs in cruel cages for at least another 10 years. “Today the Government has locked in cruelty for mother pigs and chosen pork lobbyists over public sentiment and welfare evidence,” says the Green Party’s animal welfare spokesperson, Steve Abel. “The phase out of farrowing crates should have been legislated today but Luxon’s Government has instead legalised 10 more years of misery for mother pigs…