NEW ZEALAND ANIMAL RIGHTS
STUDENT RESOURCES
If you want to find out more about the exploitation of animals and animal rights in New Zealand and overseas, take a look at some of these resources.
Topics
- Battery hen farming
- Animal rights
- Animal experimentation TBA
- Bloodsports TBA
- Fur and fashion TBA
- Animals in entertainment TBA
- Factory farming TBA
- Compassionate lifestyles TBA
TEXTS ON BATTERY HENS
NON-FICTION BOOK EXTRACTS
- Animal Liberation, Peter Singer (pp.66-69)
download PDF (3200 KB) - The Pig Who Sang to the Moon, Jeffrey Masson
download PDF (pp.70-71) (622 KB)
download PDF (pp.79-81) (1100 KB)
download PDF (pp.85-86) (796 KB)
FICTION PLAY EXTRACT
- Chook Chook, Fiona Farrell (pp.90-94)
download PDF (1700 KB)
POETRY
- Song of the Battery Hen, Edwin Brock (p.95)
download PDF (675 KB)
Permission being sought to reproduce the above.
MAGAZINE ARTICLES
- Cruel Codes, SAFE Magazine (p.96)
download PDF (654 KB) - Hen Batteries - Havens or Hells?, Science Monthly (pp.106-107)
download PDF (1500 KB) - Life in a Cage. Science Says Chooks Should Run Free, Organic NZ (p.108)
download PDF (737 KB)
MEDIA RELEASE
- Minister challenged over abusive battery hen and pig codes, SAFE (pp.101-103)
download PDF (1400 KB)
NEWSPAPER ARTICLE
- Small Victory for Battery Hens, Dominion Post. (p.97)
download PDF (945 KB)
LEGISLATION
- Animal Welfare Act 1999 (pp.99-100)
download PDF (1000 KB) - Animal Welfare (Layer Hens) Code of Welfare 2005. (pp.101-103)
download PDF (1400 KB)
SUBMISSION
- SAFE Submission on Draft 10 of the Animal Welfare (Layer Hen) Code of Welfare 2002. (pp.104-105)
download PDF (680 KB)
CARTOON
- Are you sure this is free range? Al Nesbit (p.117)
download PDF (430 KB) - Beyond the Egg. Holy Cow no. 2. (pp.118-121)
download PDF (2500 KB)
ADVERTISING and CAMPAIGN MATERIALS
- The Egg Beater, SAFE Advert (p.109)
download PDF (810 KB) - Egg Carton, SAFE Advert (p.110)
download PDF (1000 KB) - Battery hen cruelty, SAFE Advert (p.111)
download PDF (835 KB) - Freedom for hens, SAFE campaign pack (pp.113-114)
download PDF (3200 KB) - No Chick Deserves to Suffer, SAFE Billboard (p.115)
download PDF (1400 KB) - Stop Cruel Battery Hen Farming, SAFE Petition (p.116)
download PDF (353 KB)
VIDEO, TELEVISION and MOVIE TEXTS
- Trapped. Cinema Advertisement
- Close Up. Battery Hen Item
- 60 Minutes. Behind Bars.
- 60 Minutes. Fowl Play.
SAFE protest/campaign footage
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