James Nisbet @bandit.nz

I often wonder how it's legal to provide zero shade or shelter for farm animals - yet you see it literally dozens of times per hour when driving through New Zealand's countryside. Animal cruelty is in our blood here

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Larre Bildeston @larreau.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 07:46 UTC

In Australia it’s even worse, if anything

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Oliver - living in a Cult of Cuts (insert *) @olimnz.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 08:11 UTC

A great use-case for adding solar panels to farms.

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Cantering Mad Cath @catherinejmckenzie.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 21:47 UTC

Day in day out there are God knows how many appalling breaches of the animal welfare act 1999, covering both companion animals and farmed animals. Some of our animal sports consist of the worst breaches of the Act. It's just that NZers don't care about animals. We pretend we love animals, we don't.

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@bee-d.bsky.social [ View ] Jun 16, 2024 at 19:23 UTC

Its an oxymoron of a problem, offer shade, means pasture reduction, also have you stood under the trees with 50 head of cattle?? or 100 sheep, the temp that their bodies emit is more than out exposed. It also encourages deep dung/flies/crowding. what is worse? [I offer strip shade]

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