ADVOCACY: CATTLE
Update on cattle farmed for meat and dairy
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JUNE 2022 SAFE made a submission on the proposed code of welfare for dairy cattle and associated regulations and facilitated 3,464 public submissions through SAFE's website. SAFE's submission urged the committee to prioritise the welfare needs of cows by prohibiting the use of electricity to manage behavior, limit the use of off-paddock facilities, explicitly require that farms provide shelter, and urgently progress regulations relating to intensive winter grazing.
AUGUST 2022 SAFE joined forces with Greenpeace Aotearoa, alongside SPCA, the NZALA, and Animals Aotearoa, signing on to their submission calling for an end to intensive winter grazing.
SAFE launched a campaign exposing one of dairy's dirtiest secrets — the production of fetal bovine serum (FBS), which involves killing cows during pregnancy and draining blood from their unborn calves.
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Pregnant mother cow transported to slaughter.
Mother cow is killed.
Blood drained from calf foetus.
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Calf blood is processed into Foetal Bovine Serum (FBS).
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FBS is exported overseas.
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ANNUAL REPORT 2023
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