YOUTH Kids Voice 4 Animals ssue 2 - S I eptember 2014 SAFE Newsletter - for kids who know that animals matter.

Welcome to Issue Two of the SAFE Youth newsletter. This issue is all about . Pigs are awesome animals. There are pigs in story books, pigs on television and if you are a fan of The Muppets you will know there are even ‘Pigs in Space’! Sadly, there are also pigs on farms and on factory farms they live in terrible conditions. There are lots of things we can do together to help pigs live happy and peaceful lives. Check out page 4 for ideas.

ANIMALS IN THE NEWS PIGS 'BEHIND CLOSED DOORS' farming has been in the news thing is the activists had visited been filmed in one year ago. in the past couple of months and the same farm in 2013 and given She looked so miserable. not in a good way. the footage to SAFE. In 2013 SAFE SAFE Head of Campaigns Mandy Animal activists from Farmwatch made an official animal welfare Carter said, ‘This Christchurch pig visited a farm in Canterbury earlier complaint about the farm – but farm is really very bad but the pig this year and found the pigs in clearly the conditions had not industry as a whole is not good.’ shocking conditions. The activists improved. filmed mother pigs (sows) in crates SAFE decided the new Farmwatch Watch the Sunday show here: so small they crushed their own 2014 footage should go to ‘Sunday: Behind Closed Doors’ – piglets, a dead pig in a pen with the media. The TVNZ Sunday 29 June 2014: live pigs, pens filled with water and programme picked up the story tvnz.co.nz/sunday-news/ animal waste, and dozens of rats and put together an item about the behind-closed-doors- running all over the pigs. The sad pig farm, which aired in June. video-6014696 New Zealanders were disgusted with what they saw. Many people The Press ‘NZ pig farms ‘cannot be trusted’ – 30 June 2014 called the SAFE office angry and stuff.co.nz/the-press/news/ upset that pigs were living this way. 10214561/NZ-pig-farms-cannot- One pig in particular touched be-trusted SAFE’s heart. Pig 83 (so named Farmwatch because of her number ‘83’ ear- www.farmwatch.org.nz/ tag) was in the same crate she had

1 animal profile PIGS G KIND FOOD Feeling hungry? There are lots of yummy recipes without animal Pigs are probably most ingredients. These banana chocolate chip muffins are Hamilton Lifespan: recognised for their SAFE Youth member Meia’s favourites. We hope you enjoy them too! unusually flat and 25 years (wild) round snout. Pigs use 4 years (sow on pig farm) their snout to dig up Banana chocolate chip muffins 16 weeks ( farmed for meat) soil in search of food. Ingredients: The snout is very Type of animal: strong with a pre-nasal bone and special 1 3/4 cups flour Diet: omnivore disk of cartilage at the end, which makes the 1 1/2 teaspoons baking powder snout quite firm. Natural habitat: Pigs can live in most 1/2 teaspoon baking soda Pigs’ ancestors are wild boars, slightly habitats but prefer grassland. 1/2 teaspoon cinnamon smaller, hairier versions of the How many domestic pigs in the world? with a longer snout. Pigs have poor eyesight 1/2 teaspoon sea salt Approximately 80,000 and their eyes are generally quite small. 1 1/2 cups mashed ripe bananas This is made up for by an exceptional sense (4 medium bananas) of smell. 2/3 cup maple syrup 1/3 cup virgin coconut oil Interesting facts about pigs Why do pigs have curly tails? 2/3 cup non-dairy chocolate chips* SAFE Youth ANIMAL HEROES Not all pigs have curly tails. The curly tail is DirDirty?ty? found only in domestic pigs after hundreds Directions: Pigs are in fact very clean animals. They do of years of breeding – much like the selective Preheat oven to 180°C. Melt coconut oil in a small however like mud baths. This is because pigs breeding of dogs and cats for different saucepan and remove from heat to cool. don’t have sweat glands and a nice mud bath characteristics (long hair, Grease a 12-cup muffin tray. helps cool them down on a hot day. short hair, long legs, big ears, for example). In a large bowl, whisk together the flour, baking GreeGreedy?dy? powder, baking soda, cinnamon, and salt. Pigs don’t actually eat that quickly. They often Add the mashed banana and maple syrup to SAFE Youth member Bethany (10 years, on savour their food and can be quite fussy eaters. the coconut oil and mix then add this to the right) and her friend Laura collected hundreds dry mixture. Stir just until combined. of signatures in Upper Hutt for SAFE’s ‘Say ‘no’ Clever? Clever? Fold in the chocolate chips (make sure that the to intensive in New Zealand’ Pigs are known to be very clever indeed – they mixture isn’t too hot from the coconut oil before petition in August. What an amazing effort! are considered to be more intelligent than dogs. you do this or else your chocolate chips will melt). Winston Churchill famously said, “I am fond of pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look Spoon the batter into the muffin cups and bake down on us. Pigs treat us as equals.” for 20-25 minutes. Remove, let cool for about 5-10 minutes, then go CCanan theythey fly? fly? ahead and indulge! Pigs can’t fly (unless they are on an aeroplane). The saying ‘when pigs fly’ is used in order to *Meia always uses Ceres organic choco express something that is impossible. The idea drops because they don’t contain Christchurch SAFE Youth member Abby (12 of pigs flying must have seemed a crazy idea. palm oil. The planting of palm trees years, on left) and SAFE volunteer Mayouri Other similar sayings include ‘when hens for palm oil in Asia has caused serious help out at SAFE’s vegan sausage sizzle at the have teeth’ and ‘when the moon turns into problems for animals such as the Lyttelton Street Party in June. The sausages green cheese’. Orangutan whose forest homes have been destroyed. sold out by 9pm and no pigs were harmed!

2 3 TIPS TO HELP ANIMALS ANIMALS IN TROUBLE What do you know about pig farming There are a lot of ways you can help pigs. in New Zealand? Did you know that 1. Keep off your fork! over 800,000 piglets are farmed on The kindest thing you can do to help pigs is not to Quick Fact: New Zealand farms for people to eat? New Zealanders eat eat them. When you stop eating and buying pork on average over 20kg of pork per fewer pigs will be farmed for meat and your money person per year. An eight-week-old won’t go towards factory farming. piglet weighs about 22 kg. 2. Teach others about factory pig farming Factory farming takes place in dark sheds. Most people will never see inside these farms. You can give your friends and family SAFE leaflets about factory farming or show them SAFE’s video ‘Stop Factory Farming’:

Video FACTORY SAFE – Stop Factory Farming FARMED PIGS http://www.safe.org.nz/ Pigs are confined in large, windowless,less, sheds sheds fo forr thei theirr entir entiree stop-factory-farming/ lives. The only time they’ll see (8min 42sec) daylight is on the way to slaughter.

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4 5 SAFE youth FOR ANIMALS MEMBER PROFILE Wellington SAFE Youth member Otis Garrett-Knoche is our SAFE YOUTH member profile this time.

Name: Otis Garrett-Knoche Age: 8 and a half Hometown: Wellington Favourite animal: Panda What got you interested in wanting to help animals? Because I’m a vegetarian and want to look after animals – especially pandas! What animal issues upset you the most? The chickens look really sad in the cages. What's your favourite veg food? Vege sausages – yum! Anything you want to share about animals? It's really nice to see chickens like the ones that live next door to us enjoying life not in a cage!

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