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After two years of obbying, free range eggs are ntroduced onto the shelves of Pick n Pay and Woolworths.We play a role in the banning of live plucking of ostriches before slaughter. Our magazine Animal Voice publishes an NSPCAphoto of an ostrich plucked naked before slaughter. Animal Voice receives aw yers etters threatening egal action by the ostrichindustry. The NSPCA, with the University of the Free State, establishes that the anticipation of being plucked causes a sharp risein cortisol evels n ostriches. The Ostrich Chamber of Business draws up a code with The NSPCA that bans ive plucking.We play a role n the banning of the Devil's Fork n Kosher slaughter as well as the rotating slaughter box. 37 hours of undercoverfootage by Compassion in World Farming shows unrelenting violence and abuse in some abattoirs in South Africa. In somescenes, the 'devil's fork' used in Kosher slaughter hooks into the animal's eye sockets. The Livestock Welfare Co-ordinatingCommittee, including the NSPCA, reach an agreement with the Beth Din for a nation-wide ban on the rotating box and devil'sfork. The NSPCA ater confiscates two devil's forks' at an abattoir that had not heeded the ban.We take Humane Education into 11 schools in the Western Cape Education Department's Safe Schools programme. CaringClassrooms, our ensuing documentary on the impact of Humane Education on learner behaviour is launched in Brussels andreceives nternational recognition. This documentary has also been shown at film festivals n Canada, Equador and Brazil.At the nvitation of the Department of Education, we officially participate n the process of ntegrating Humane Education n theSA Curriculum.Compassion in World Farming hosts the All-Africa Humane Education Summit in Cape Town. Educators from 18 Africancountries attend. Mr Ronald Swartz, head of Education n the Western Cape, s our keynote speaker.Compassion in World Farming's SA representative a nd editor of Animal Voice, Louise van der Merwe, receives the Campaignerof the Year Award by the International Fund for Animal We lfare and Animal Talk Magazine.Woolworths bans battery eggs from all ts stores nationwide. CEO Simon Susman gives credit to CIWF (SA).Free range broiler (meat) chickens become available n some supermarkets.We expose calf cruelty n our documentary Saving Baby Ubuntu' and as a direct result, Woolworths nstruct s ts dairy suppliers toraise male calves to maturity.Also as a direct result of our documentary 'Saving Baby Ubuntu', The Dairy News, mouthpiece of the Milk ProducersOrganisation, alerts farmers to the need to treat calves humanely. However, the treatment of calves remains an ongoing ssue.We publish South Africa's first Kind Food GuideUnder the chairmanship of Dr Manie Schoeman, Parliament opens debate on whether animals should be acknowledged assentient beings n the SA Constitution. This s as a direct result of our supporters obbying Parliament for ts acknowledgement ofanimal sentience.Teacher Vivienne Rutgers who has worked closely with us for four years to beco me a Humane Education Specialist, is invited tospeak on Humane Education at the United Nations Forum on Sus tainable Development, New York.Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition, Sa ndra Botha signs the worldwide Animals Matter t o Me petition to the UN.Compassion in World Farming (SA) and Humane Education supporters collect more than 100 000 signatures for the AnimalsMatter Petition and hand them to Deputy Directo r for Animal Health, Dr Siegfried Meyer.Dr Meyer subsequently makes a personal visit to Compassion in World Farming (SA) community representative in Khayelitsha,Mr Thabani Mangcu, and the Dept of Agriculture in the Western Cape launches a Humane Handling of Animals AwarenessInitiative in the Western Cape's informal settlements under t he guidance of Mr Tozie Zokufa, Meat Inspector (Veterinary PublicHealth officer).Our Humane Education readers are selected by the Western Cape Education Department for its 100 Books in Every Gradeproject for 2008.Pick n Pay aunches free range porkAcknowledged as a role player in consumer affairs, Compassion in World Farming (SA) is invited to address the ABSA Bank-sponsored Consumer Day celebrations held n Johannesburg by the National Consumer Forum.Compassion in World Farming (SA) launches Let's Ask the Animals, a documentary on animal sentience by the Universities ofBristol and Cambridge, n Xhosa.

After two years of lobbying, free range eggs are introduced onto the shelves of Pick 'n Pay and Woolworths.

We play a role in the banning of live plucking of ostriches before slaughter. Our magazine Animal Voice publishes an NSPCAphoto of an ostrich plucked naked before slaughter. Animal Voice receives lawyers letters threat ening legal action by the ostrichindustry. The NSPCA, with the University of the Free State, establishes that the anticipation of being plucked causes a sharp risein cortisol levels in ostriches. The Ostrich Chamber of Business draws up a code with The NSPCA that ba ns live plucking.

We play a role in the banning of the Devil's Fork in Kosher slaughter as well as the rotating slaughter box. 37 hours of undercoverfootage by Compassion in World Farming shows unrelenting violence and abuse in some abattoirs in South Africa. In somescenes, the 'devil's fork' used in Kosher slaughter hooks into the animal's eye sockets. The Livestock Welfare Co-ordinatingCommittee, including the NSPCA, reach an agreement with the Beth Din for a nation-wide ban on the rotating box and devil'sfork. The NSPCA later confiscates two 'dev il's forks' at an abattoir that had not heede d the ban.

We take Humane Education into 11 schools in the Western Cape Education Department's Safe Schools programme. CaringClassrooms, our ensuing documentary on the impact of Humane Education on learner behaviour is launched in Brussels andreceives international recognition. This documentary has also been shown at film festivals in Canada, Equador and Brazil.

At the invitation of the Department of Education, we officially participat e in the process of integrating Humane Education in theSA Curriculum.

Compassion in World Farming hosts the All-Africa Humane Education Summit in Cape Town. Educators from 18 Africancountries attend. Mr Ronald Swartz, head o f Education in the Western Cape, is our keynote spe aker.

Compassion in World Farming's SA representative and editor of Animal Voice, Louise van der Merwe, receives the Campaignerof the Year Award by the Interna tional Fund for Animal Welfare and Animal Talk Magazine.

Woolworths bans battery eggs from all its stores nationwide. CEO Simon Susman give s credit to CIWF (SA).

Free range broiler (meat) chickens become available in some supermarkets.

We expose calf cruelty in our documentary 'Saving Baby Ubuntu' and as a direct result, Woolworths instructs its dairy suppliers to

raise male calves to maturity.

Also as a direct result of our documentary 'Saving Baby Ubuntu', The Dairy News, mouthpiece of the Milk ProducersOrganisation, alerts farmers to the need to treat calves humanely. However, the treatment of calves remains an ongoing issue.

We publish South Africa's first Kind Food Guide

Under the chairmanship of Dr Manie Schoeman, Parliament opens debate on whether animals should be acknowledged assentient beings in the SA Constitution. T his is as a direct result of our supporters lobbying Parliament for its acknowledg ement ofanimal sentience.

Teacher Vivienne Rutgers who has worked closely with us for four years to become a Humane Education Specialist, is invited tospeak on Humane Education at the United Nations Forum on Sustainable Development, New York.

Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition, Sandra Botha signs the worldwide Animals Matter to Me petition to the UN.

Compassion in World Farming (SA) and Humane Education supporters collect more than 100 000 signatures for the AnimalsMatter Petition and hand them to Deputy Director for Animal Health, Dr Siegfried Meyer.

Dr Meyer subsequently makes a personal visit to Compassion in World Farming (SA) community representative in Khayelitsha,Mr Thabani Mangcu, and the Dept of Agriculture in the Western Cape launches a Humane Handling of Animals AwarenessInitiative in the Western Cape's informal settlements under the guidance of Mr Tozie Zokufa, Meat Inspector (Veterina ry PublicHealth officer).

Our Humane Education readers are selected by the Western Cape Education Department for its 100 Books in Every Gradeproject for 2008.

Pick n Pay launches free range pork

Acknowledged as a role player in consumer affairs, Compassion in World Farming (SA) is invited to address the ABSA Bank-sponsored Consumer Day celebrations held in Johannesburg by the National Consumer Forum.

Compassion in World Farming (SA) launches Let's Ask the Animals, a documentary on animal sentience by the Universities ofBristol and Cambridge, in Xhosa.

Some milestones in CIWF (SA)s efforts for farmed animals

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Eggs

Use your Consumer Power to set layinghens free!By 2012, battery cages for laying henswill be banned for their crueltythroughout Europe. Yet, in South Africa,22 million laying hens remain trapped ina space allowance of less than an A4sheet of paper - for life! They are alldebeaked so that if they peck eachother in the barren, cramped confinesof their cages, they won't do too muchharm. Only 3% of laying hens are freerange in South Africa. When this figurereaches 10%, it becomes possible topersuade authorities to ban batterycages.

A pale yolk does not mean asub-standard egg.Remember that the difference betweenFree Range and Organic Eggs lies largelyin what the laying hens eat. Organiceggs have to come from free rangehens that are fed organic food. This iswhy many of Woolworths' organic eggshave such a pale yolk. It is because onlywheat-based chicken feed is currentlycertified as organic and wheat does notcolour the yolks a deep yellow. Grassand lucerne cause the yolks to be deepyellow.To see life in a battery cage, please sendfor our slide show: Which Comes First,the Chicken or the Egg? Price: R25.00.Email: janine@animal-voice.orgCongratulations Woolworths forbanning battery eggs from allyour stores nationwide!

Use your Consumer Power to set layinghens free!

By 2012, battery cages for laying henswill be banned for their crueltythroughout Europe. Yet, in South Africa,22 million laying hens remain trapped ina space allowance of less than an A4sheet of paper - for life! They are alldebeaked so that if they peck eachother in the barren, cramped confinesof their cages, they won't do too muchharm. Only 3% of laying hens are free

range in South Africa. When this figurereaches 10%, it becomes possible topersuade authorities to ban batterycages.

A pale yolk does not mean asub-standard egg.

Remember that the difference betweenFree Range and Organic Eggs lies largelyin what the laying hens eat. Organiceggs have to come from free rangehens that are fed organic food. This iswhy many of Woolworths' organic eggshave such a pale yolk. It is because onlywheat-based chicken feed is currentlycertified as organic and wheat does notcolour the yolks a deep yellow. Grassand lucerne cause the yolks to be deepyellow.

To see life in a battery cage, please sendfor our slide show: Which Comes First,the Chicken or the Egg? Price: R25.00.Email: janine@animal-voice.org

Congratulations Woolworths forbanning battery eggs from allyour stores nationwide!

Pork

If you wouldn't keep your dog like this,then speak up for pigs!

Pick n Pay is the first supermarket tolaunch free range pork in selectedstores in Gauteng (Fourways and CedarRoad) and it will soon be available in theWestern Cape at Pick n Pay'sConstantia, Gardens and Tokai stores.

However, 2.1 million breeding sowsremain confined in metal cages (asshown in the picture) - for all of theirfour-odd years of life.

Their piglets, reared in barren sheds onfactory farms, become our ham andbacon.

Please insist on Free Range pork!

Milk

Most people have somekind of vague idea thatcows produce milkreadily on tap forhuman consumption.However, like breast pumps, milkingmachines draw out the milk frominflated udders because the calves (orkids, in the case of goats) are not thereto do it themselves. Pouring milk into aglass, eating a tub of yoghurt or gratingcheese onto a pizza all require a processof impregnation, gestation, birth andlactation.So where have all the calves gone sothat we can drink their milk and eat theyoghurts and multitude of cheesevarieties? Well, calves - especially bullcalves who will never produce milk - are'surplus' to the dairy industry. Whileheifers will usually grow up to join themilk parlour, it is the bull calves thathave the worst of it. They are eitherkilled at birth, dumped at auctions orreared in tiny stalls for veal.And, does the cow mind hercalf being removed so she cangive her milk to us? The answeris yes!

To see the plight of dairy calves, pleaseorder our documentary 'Saving BabyUbuntu'. Price: R39-90.Email: janine@animal-voice.orgAs a result of this documentary,Woolworths gave a directive to its dairysuppliers that all male calves must bereared humanely until they reachslaughter weight at about 18 monthsold.

Most people have somekind of vague idea thatcows produce milkreadily on tap forhuman consumption.However, like breast pumps, milkingmachines draw out the milk frominflated udders because the calves (orkids, in the case of goats) are not thereto do it themselves. Pouring milk into aglass, eating a tub of yoghurt or gratingcheese onto a pizza all require a processof impregnation, gestation, birth and

lactation.

So where have all the calves gone sothat we can drink their milk and eat theyoghurts and multitude of cheesevarieties? Well, calves - especially bullcalves who will never produce milk - are'surplus' to the dairy industry. Whileheifers will usually grow up to join themilk parlour, it is the bull calves thathave the worst of it. They are eitherkilled at birth, dumped at auctions orreared in tiny stalls for veal.

And, does the cow mind hercalf being removed so she cangive her milk to us? The answeris yes!

To see the plight of dairy calves, pleaseorder our documentary 'Saving BabyUbuntu'. Price: R39-90.Email: janine@animal-voice.orgAs a result of this documentary,Woolworths gave a directive to its dairysuppliers that all male calves must bereared humanely until they reachslaughter weight at about 18 monthsold.

Chicken

Some 10 million broiler chickens are

slaughtered for their meat every weekin South Africa. About one third ofthese chickens have suffered agonisingammonia burns on their feet as a resultof having spent their short six-week liveson faeces-saturated litter. Please buyonly Free Range chicken meat.

The parts they don't want you to see!

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Lamb

Routine mutilations such ascastration and tail dockingof lambs without pain reliefhas recently come under the spotlight asa new report by the Farm AnimalWelfare Council in the UK confirms thatthese mutilations cause considerablepain and distress.

To learn more about how consumers can makea difference, please send for our DVDs:Farm Animals and Us and Let s Ask the AnimalsPrice: R39.90 each.Email: janine@animal-voice.orgPlease support our endeavours on behalf ofFarmed Animals - please donate to:The Humane Education TrustAccount No. 9094070046Name of Bank: ABSA Bank, Somerset WestBranch No.: 334 712Type of Account: SavingsBank Address: 116 Main Road, Somerset West7130, South AfricaSWIFT CODE: ABSAZAJJCCT

To learn more about how consumers can makea difference, please send for our DVDs:

Farm Animals and Us and Let's Ask the AnimalsPrice: R39.90 each.

Email: janine@animal-voice.org

Please support our endeavours on behalf ofFarmed Animals - please donate to:

The Humane Education TrustAccount No. 9094070046

Name of Bank: ABSA Bank, Somerset WestBranch No.: 334 712

Type of Account: SavingsBank Address: 116 Main Road, Somerset West

7130, South AfricaSWIFT CODE: ABSAZAJJCCT

Examining Consumer Issues...Did you know?Turning just onechicken into meat atthe abattoir takes anestimated 14 litres ofwater. Multiply thisfigure by the number ofchickens slaughteredannually in South Africa(761 million) and thelake of water that drains away from chickenabattoirs is 10.6 billion litres annually or 29million litres daily.To turn just one ox into meat takes up to 9000

litres of water at the abattoir alone.

Did you know?About one-third of thechicken feet sold tothe poorest of thepoor are scorchedblack with ammoniaburns from standingon filthy litter. Someare infected and oozepus. They are sold tothe poor at 50 cents a foot. Between RainbowChicken Ltd., County Fair, Tydstroom andothers, some 10 million broiler chickens areslaughtered every week in South Africa.At 50 cents a foot, the poor are payinggenerously for chicken feet.

We are told that we have a choice betweenkind and cruel food and that the market isdriven by our choices.

However, Compassion in World Farming(South Africa) believes it is every consumer'sright to assume that the animal-derived foodpresented in supermarkets, has been rearedand treated humanely from birth to death.Since farmers do not welcome visits from thepublic, consumers are unable to makeinformed choices.

While Vegans believe that Freedom ofConscience means eating no animal-derivedfood at all, Compassion in World Farming (SA)believes that in the era in which we are living,the most important first step we can take inour struggle for a sustainable and humaneway of life, is to ensure that animals lead livesworth living, free of pain and fear.

Please write to National Consumer Forumchairman, Mr Thami Bolani, and ask him tohelp achieve a 9th Consumer Right - namely:Freedom of Conscience.Mr Bolani's email address is: ncf@sabs.co.za

We drink their mothersmilk.They drink milk substitute.

Examining Consumer Issues...

The eight existing consumer rights are:safety information choice representationredress consumer educationsatisfaction of basic needs a healthy environment