35 Chickens Liberated From West Auckland Egg Farm

"all the hens were debeaked......"

The birds in the photos have got beaks. Did you glue the beaks back on for cosmetic reasons before you took the photos?

look a bit harder mate!

see the stubby upper beak, that's debeaking. it doesn't remove all of the beak.

simon

Regardless of how they're treated there's no justification for locking innocent creatures in those cages.

Good job done! I hope they continue by liberating people from the factory farms that call themselves: Caltex, ANZ, Contact Energy, Dunlop, Fairfax, Farmers, Progressive, Telecom, Meridian, KFC, Sealord, SAFE, McDonalds, The Mad Butcher, Shell, Telstraclear, Noel Leamings, Godfrey Hurst, OPSM, Westpac, etc.

How about librating the animals that are kept in jail in The Auckland Zoo?

someone once said "the nature of any domesticated animal becomes deranged." I think zoos are wrong because they take animals out of the wild. is this conservation or a pathetic compromise since there is very little wild left in the world! freedom for all!

i concur that the ar movement does not do enough. instead of crying on how hard ar campaigning is how about finding solutions to the problems instead of throwing it onto others?

remember it is the animals that are the biggest losers in all of this because they are still being: slaughtered, eaten, abused and being used to generate profit for the selected few by the billions!!!

come on: pull your socks up!!!

BTW I can see that the ALF has supa-glueon her fingers in the last foto

The last comment is plain speciesism. If a company was ripping off people in some significant yet minor way (say for example building a bypass through central Wellington, or ripping off some old ladies' pension funds) would there be the same self righteous cries of "how terrible, millions of people are dying, but you are being oh so parochial and worried about a bypass or a few old ladies being robbed". But as soon as anyone makes an effort to end abuses of any other species but our own, we get the same tired old chestnut.

Perhaps you could tell me what you are doing for African Americans, or anyone else. Most of the people bleating about "humans must come first" do nothing for humans or animals. In contrast, most AR activists are also involved in protests against significant human abuses, such as the war in Iraq as well.

BTW I agree about the excessive number of "anonymous" postings. Even though most of us use pseudonyms, we know who we are.

Just a reminder to all those planning to take part in SAFE's upcoming street appeal. Most of the money you'll be getting will be going into people's back pockets in the form of wages and not going directly to animal campaigns. The proof is on www.companies.govt.nz/cms/banner_template/OBNAME by typing in Save Animals from Exploitation and by reading their annual accounts. As all the world can see more money is spent on wages than on the campaigns for the animals.

I do not have anything to do with Safe anymore. After working there on the work for the dole scam all that I learned from the place is that it only exists to keep some in money and very little is done for the animals. What others have written about it is correct and the pussy and power comment sums up the directorship very well. Take for example when I was there I help dump about a warehouse full of old chimp calenders that Safe made. This is proof that it is poorly run. Now they have another calender up for sale but no doubt heaps will be dumped again. Which in turn leads to wasting more money that could be better used. Plus what others have posted in this forum about how lazy the AR movement is are right. Good shit!

Replying to anonymous #39 (see how confusing it is) I was not suggesting anyone should use their real name, but rather that we stick to regular login names. Phil is not my real name either.

I didn't see any heros collecting for Safe. All what I saw was misguided individuals been fooled into believing that they were doing something noble. While really all that they were doing was supporting an unelighten fiefdom.

Gee, why do so many people slag off Safe? What have they done to deserve this?

"I kill two birds with one stone" - an unfortunate unintended pun there.

Thank you to the brave activists who did this. I purchase ex battery hens for $2 and give them a new life.