Farm Tours

Batter Hen Farm Tour

December 08 

Nearly 20 people went to a South Auckland factory farm to see first hand how battery hens in Aotearoa are living. For many this was the first time they had been to a factory farm but it was something they needed to see, despite the risk.

Alana, who came on the tour, said ‘I wanted to go because I knew that seeing a battery hen farm myself, would enable me to explain better to others what they are like. I felt that people would believe me more if I had personally experienced being in one. I also felt like I was at the stage where I wanted to take a more hands on approach to helping animals, rather than just collecting money etc... so this was the first step for me towards that goal.'

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Pig Farm Tour

June 08

"Nothing I had read or seen could have led me to imagine how horrific this pig farm was. The noise and being surrounded by huge animals separated from you by a few bars at times overwhelmed all other senses and I found I had to block out the suffering of individual pigs to be able to move throughout the sheds." - an activist on the farm tour

In Aotearoa there are over 350,000 pigs on factory farms; most destined to be eaten. They live in filthy crammed conditions, unable to display of their natural behaviours such as foraging, nesting, forming hierarchies and in many cases even turning around. In 2005 over 750,000 pigs were slaughtered for their flesh. This is hard to believe and something we had to see for ourselves.

On a sunny winter day in June we took a ‘self guided' tour of a North Island pig farm. The point of this farm tour was to see, with our own eyes, how pigs were factory farmed in this country and to gain a better understanding of pigs in general.

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