Kedgley Keen To See Havoc Show
Monday, 20 August 2001, 2:06 pm
Press Release: Green Party
Green Animal Welfare and Broadcasting Spokesperson Sue
Kedgley today said she is looking forward to seeing the
Havoc Show - in which cameras were taken into a battery hen
factory - as soon as possible.
The show was pulled from
screening late last week by TV2, who said it was not fit to
air.
Ms Kedgley said she hoped the decision to pull the
show related to technical issues and was not related to
either the factory farming footage or pressure from
advertisers concerned with that footage.
"I am hoping that
the decision to pull this show had nothing at all to do with
the visit to a battery chicken farm and I sincerely hope
that any footage of this factory is not edited as a result
of any outside pressures," said Ms Kedgley.
"Given what
this Show has got away with in the past I would be most
interested to know what exactly TVNZ deemed unfit to
air."
"Battery chicken farming is extraordinarily cruel
and full credit to the Havoc Show for wanting to show New
Zealanders how hens are treated here," she said.
"There
has been a veil of secrecy around these type of practices
for far too long and I am really looking forward to seeing
this episode when it finally screens."
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