Santa’s naughty list shows NZPork in trouble

Santa has provided animal advocacy organisation SAFE with an early copy of this year’s naughty list, as it prominently features many animal-abusing industries and businesses, with NZPork topping the list.

Santa told SAFE he loves Rudolph, the other reindeer and all animals and he is dismayed that there are plenty of scrooges who abuse animals for the sake of profit. “They will surely be getting a lump of coal from Santa this Christmas,” says SAFE executive director Hans Kriek.

NZPork tops Santa’s list for allowing animals to be kept in squalid factory farming conditions, letting farmers get away with neglecting and abusing pigs, and for misleading consumers with their bogus PigCare scheme.

Also featured on the list are the Ministry of Primary Industries for failing to prosecute two pig farms that were filmed neglecting and abusing animals; the dairy industry for killing over two million bobby calves just days after birth and the ‘Professional Bull Riders’ for their cruel rodeo event that resulted in a bull being so severely injured he had to be euthanised.

Santa is not happy with the Government either, as they repeatedly fail animals by not improving animal welfare laws such as instigating a ban on cosmetic testing on animals. The full naughty list can be viewed on SAFE’swebsite.

SAFE is pleased to have Santa’s support and especially Santa’s promise that he will be extra generous when he sees a street collector at SAFE’s annual appeal this Friday.

“SAFE’s work is entirely funded by donations provided by the public and we receive no government funding,” says Mr Kriek. It is vital for us to raise enough funds at our annual appeal to continue to stop cruelty to animals in New Zealand.”

This year, SAFE has helped achieve a ban on party pill testing on animals, campaigned on cosmetics testing, successfully lobbied the government to ban the routine bashing of calves to death and initiated three high-profile exposés of cruelty on factory pig farms.

SAFE will hold its national annual street appeal this Friday and Saturday(19/20 December). To donate please text XMAS to 4419 to make an immediate $3 donation.

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