Chickens, eggs, colony systems: What's the big secret?

12 Aug 2011 08:12p.m.

ya wrote:

many years ago i did work with food chickens
raised fast and processed faster

so if we have to eat how many would it take
to fill the belly's of the many..

yes a falcon finds food for the few born

others must ask for there many....

So how many people does it take to consume the earth?
(only a animal would know).

27 Jul 2011 03:07p.m.

warren wrote:

Do what you have to do to feed your family?... eat a kiwi bird,couple of tuataras, there are a couple of islands in the huaraki, help yourself, LOL, someone clearly is in their middle aged life crisis, boy i love being young. Wow correct, i mean no one should be hacking phones, omg it just occured to me, if they hack our phones and perhaps internet lines, perhaps there would be fewer rapes and the murder rates would fall, it would help in court, but you're right , wouldnt wanna expose something that could land 'someone' in jail right? Biased footage? We dont want neutrality, we want the truth, we , or it seems half of the people writing here want to see what is not being shown here. The rest of you(pl) can go on an easter-bunny hunt to find what tv3 has not exposed. Totally for the poultry industry opening their doors to the public. Perhaps even those opposing tv3's curiousity would change their tunes. Or maybe they would rather close their eyes to what is going around them, DONT WATCH THE NEWS IF YOU DONT LIVE CURIOUSLY or dont want to be informed about what is going on down the street from your house!

27 Jul 2011 10:44a.m.

Open-eyed wrote:

Colony hen cages are bigger, sure - but this doesn't mean there will be more room for hens, simply that there will be more hens in the cages! Colony cages have been outlawed in many countries - why is NZ wanting to introduce them when the rest of the world is getting rid of them? The answer seems simple - money. Is it not cheaper and easier to continue being cruel to the very creatures which are providing the "commodity" the public wants, than to change a mindset and implement a humane system that may not make as much money in the short term, but will surely provide consumers with healthier food and a more (humanely) competitive market in the long run? Short-thinking insanity - if nothing else, we are what we eat, after all... And why are people so scared of learning the truth about where their animal-based food really comes from? Is it because if they really look at the system and see what's really happening on factory farms, they might not be able to eat it any more?? Scary thought for those who claim to "love animals" but also love eating them. The difference between a companion animal like a cat or dog and a food-producing animal like a hen or pig? Social conditioning, that's all. Are we really wanting, as a nation, to show the world how ignorant we are? How we are not nearly as progressive and clean & green as we'd like the world to believe, but merely deluded and full of our own arrogance? Ignorance is only bliss to the ignorant...to the innocent under ignorance's command, it is torture. True, TV3's reporting, as with many media centres, has been seen as woefully one-sided on many issues in the past - but in this regard, I thank you wholeheartedly for TRYING to educate New Zealanders as to the reality of the battery hen situation. Keep trying, please - if enough people open their eyes a huge improvement will have been made to both NZ culture AND to the lives of hens. "The greatness of a nation can be judged by the way its animals are treated", after all.

26 Jul 2011 08:52p.m.

Pieter Bloem wrote:

If you like to purchase free range eggs from poultry that by necessity has to be treated with insecticides to control fleas,lice and red mite, anthelmintics for parasitic worm control then good for you.As for campbell reporters not being able to gain access perhaps they should try reporting in a fair and equitable manner and listen to scientific fact instead of listening BS from SAFE buffoons with their.Why dont you try reporting the carnage and misery on free range pig and poultry during inclement weather as we have had recently.

26 Jul 2011 08:22p.m.

Carole wrote:

another lie, another way to fool people. what's the reason exactly they can't just simply go free range then?

26 Jul 2011 07:52p.m.

Sheree wrote:

Hi, I would like to know how to contact the single father and his 3 sons that are struggling for food etc. It was on tonights show 26th july. Are they in Auckland?

26 Jul 2011 07:25p.m.

Lisa. c wrote:

$250 dollars a week for that place is a rip off. Get a housing corp place and your rent will be quarter of your income not nearly half of it. Do some cash jobs your a chippie, Grey power/ senior skills might be able to help out with work. You are not the only family that is finding it hard... do what you have to do to feed the family.

26 Jul 2011 06:45p.m.

Wolfman wrote:

Why would any business in NZ let this PC Nanny program report on anything they do. Even the politicians from all parties have woken up to this motor mouth Campbel. I fully agree with Ricardo, Campbell is getting worse than the sleazy News of the World reporters. His next step will be to start hacking phones.

26 Jul 2011 09:14a.m.

Ricardo wrote:

Its a case of either something to hide, or they know from past experience that TV3 will go off on a witch hunt and present biased footage. Most probably the latter based on recent "reporting" efforts where neutrality has been sadly lacking.

26 Jul 2011 08:43a.m.

sam wrote:

Thanks tv3 for trying to show the public what the proposed "alternative" for hens is. Which basically is just another cage. The onus really falls on the consumer , the more people that buy free range the more they will come down in price . Or if you have the space , consider having your own free range hens. These hens are not machines , imagine spending your short life confined in cages like that ,NEVER seeing or feeling the sun or grass , as nature intended.