Egg farm fight this Thursday

Stop Craddock Farms

Date: 23/11/2015

This Thursday morning animal rights activists and locals from the community of Patumahoe will unite to show joint opposition to a proposal to build one of New Zealand’s largest caged chicken farms.

Craddock Farms want to build a colony cage egg farm in Patumahoe but have come up against strong opposition from locals and activists who don’t want the farm built.

Auckland City Council declined Craddock Farms’ application to build earlier this year based on concerns about odour affecting the township.

On Thursday Craddock Farms’ appeal will be heard in the Environment Court in Auckland. Activists and locals will be outside the court in a colourful protest to show their combined opposition.

Stop Craddock Farms spokesperson Deirdre Sims says, “The proposed factory farm will be one of the biggest of its kind in our country, confining 310,000 hens to cruel colony cages. We want to see a ban on cages for chickens so we've joined up with the locals and have been working with them for over a year to stop this farm being built.”

“Overseas trends show countries like Austria, Germany and Switzerland are already phasing out colony cages while we fall behind. If we can stop this farm being built, that will go a long way towards getting rid of cages in our country,” says Ms. Sims.

The protest starts at 8am on Thursday morning ahead of a 7 day hearing at the Environment Court.

ENDS.

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