UPDATE October 2018 WE WON! Direct Animal Action worked to support the Kaipara local community to oppose a proposed Tegel ‘meat’ chicken mega factory farm. Tegel proposed to build a 32 shed mega farm that would have confined 1.3 million chickens at a time to cruel industrial scale conditions. Over the course of one year,…
Direct Animal Action have begun a David vs Goliath battle against New Zealand’s biggest egg producer, Mainland Poultry. In September, an Official Information Act request to Waikato District Council revealed that Mainland Poultry have plans to build a mega factory farm that would confine 400,000 egg laying hens to colony cages and a new type of multi-tiered system…
