Parliament has pushed through urgent legislation that overturns the looming ban on farrowing crates, instead granting pig farmers an additional decade to transition to slightly stricter standards rather than eliminating the practice altogether.
Ministers argued the revised timeline provides a more practical adjustment period for the industry, but the SPCA condemned the move, saying it was excluded from consultation and that the bill reflects regulatory capture by aligning too closely with industry demands.
The accelerated debate—which covered the second reading, committee stage, and final vote—spanned Wednesday night into Thursday afternoon, ultimately passing with the support of all governing parties while every opposition MP voted against it.
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This is becoming a blatant mockery of democracy. I’m not surprised, they have no qualms about being cruel to people, unsurprising simpler animals would fair no better. Time for you to be shown the door National, ACT, NZF, in my estimation you’re a disgrace.
Hope another decade gives them enough time
If people weren’t eating these garbage disposal units this wouldn’t be happening
Pigs eat shit
You are what You eat
no, they dont eat s***, unless you are the one who feeds them. Where is your mind-set? Industrial production is not your pooch’s snuggly life.
Thank goodness or we’d be paying so much more for mere pork like the eggs! Humans first please.
Have you looked at where all the pork products come from now? It’s all just imported from the other side of the world, where there are zero animal welfare standards.
Sorry mate, although u r correct that much pork is coming from Europe (from what I see too) but Europe has some of the most progressive animal welfare standards in the world.
It’s not about animal welfare. It’s about how much tax extortion bureaucrazy can usurp under the auspice of animal welfare. Or ‘health & safety’, lol.
Partly true. Nations on the list of imported pork include the likes of Canada and USA, which do not have great standards on animal care. I believe Canada is especially bad.
https://worldpopulationreview.com/country-rankings/animal-rights-by-country
https://api.worldanimalprotection.org/compare
Cruel bastards, I see that my submission meant nothing and this seems to be happening a lot.
I have listened today to parliament radio.
They talked a whole friggin day about pigs.
I thought, great, maybe we find out who’s got the snout in deepest.
I am shocked…and not much can shock me.
I was listening to a bunch of nut-house inmates voting on questions, the ‘nays’ or ‘yays’ have it, baaahing louder than the other sheep, but EVERY SINGLE TIME some tripod called for a party vote on the baaahing.
EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN time the SAME outcome (some 55 to 64 or whatever the current gang turf is).
This goes on all morning, all afternoon, intersected by somebody with a microphone babbling like a stick about pigs, then questions again, EVERY FRIGGING SINGLE TIME the SAME procedure of baaahing and then party voting, and EVERY SINGLE TIME the SAME OUTCOME!
This goes on for hours!
This went on ALL DAY!!!
You can’t make up that SHIT!!!
Variations were the speed with which the party votes were provided (EVERY SINGLE FRIGGIN’ TIME the SAME), which clearly were in another time continuum for the emphysematic delay of the reading of numbers of the maori party (give that man a puffer) and a couple of other individuals retorting in maori lingo. My elevator has more charisma and makes more sense.
I have to point out, so it’s not overlooked because of the sheer insanity, that this charade costs us tax payers $$$ while monkeys follow their own insane rules. Can they not install little Y/N buttons on their La-Z-Boys?
Frankly, a sketch about an asylum could not be cast more surreal.
Check it out, they broadcast their insanity on AM band, 654 hz or something.
I couldn’t agree more.
Childish, unnescessary babble.
The whole reason that parliaments exist is to pass laws and legislation. The only thing that they do.
So in order to keep the snouts in the trough- very apt in this instance- is to pass laws after law after law. That’s what a parliament does.
Historically, under the old system in days of yore, parliaments were only called in times of urgency, when someone had to make a decision, eg the vikings are coming what shall we do?
But the good old system has been usurped, taken over, and is now run by self opinionated and quite frankly inept attention seekers. I am sure that there probably are some noteworthy and ethical people who enter the “halls of power”, but in my experiance they don’t get to sit at the front, and generally get shoved onto the back benches, and they are the poor buggers who get stuck with the job of listening to and voting on such dribble as the piggy cage thingee.
I reckon each politician should be made to lie down in one of those crates for 24 hours at a time to experience how they’d like it. That might help them make up their minds faster about getting rid of them!
wth babble is that? Female logic? Do you lie in bed with your sow? Do you have pigglets on your sofa?
The asylum is broadcast live on AM 657 kHz
The same MO I see, do not consult any organisation that will oppose your position.
Certainly a mockery of democracy from the globalists….