SAFE UNSAFE

The Sunday Star Times is carrying a free advert today for one of the best financed animal extremist groups in the country - SAFE. Their mouthpiece Mike King, has become all self righteous over what he believes is "animal cruelty" - the sow crate, used to protect sows while they are farrowing ( pregnant) Pigs are notorious for rolling on their young and getting pretty vicious with each other when they are pregnant.

We have always wondered why the media give so much time to King who has convinced the public of New Zealand that he knew nothing about the conditions that pigs are kept in. Strange that his change of stance and sudden insights came on the back of the fact that his contract with the Pork Board came to an end.

Anyway back to the crap that the SST has belched out today.. As we said it is a free advert for an activist group that is well funded. So why didn't the paper give the same column inches space to the Pork Board? Like -where is the balance, the fairness, the accuracy? More importantly, where is the journalism? It is nothing more than a puffy advert for SAFE. no doubt the journo was all starry eyed drooling over the " celebs" they interviewed for the story.

And lets get back to thhe basis of this argument. Sows being kept in a small pen so they can't harm themselves or their piglets.

Picture this, a woman confined to bed for the last few weeks of her pregnancy for say high blood pressure - she is not allowed to move apart from going to the toilet... It is done to give her the best chance. Same in the pork industry. Same reason, same treatment.

And we wonder if Mike King had turned up unannounced in the middle of the night at the maternity ward what the reaction would have been from pregnant mums?

They most likely would have become deeply upset, screamed, cried and probably injured themselves.

So whats the bloody problem? The problem is bad journalism, an easy story and celebrity who is could be argued had a snitch on with his former employer and now has got a serious case of selective piousness. Venal he is.

We will buy a bloody big ham this Christmas. We hope we can find a good New Zealand one.

We support New Zealand primary industries, Its not easy out there and we believe that they do a fantastic job of producing good food in a good way.

Get out there and do the same.

ANIMAL LOVER SHOT DOWN ON LAMBTON QUAY

Picture BB striding purposefully down Lambton Quay on the way home dressed in red coat and cat fur scarf thinking about cooking a pork chop for dinner.
Her reverie was ripped to pieces when some simpering little pig loving nazi from SAFE thrusts a piece of paper under her snozzer and barks loud enough for everyone within a 2m radius to hear -

"DO YOU LOVE ANIMALS. "

BB stops, grins and says loudly.

- "YES," on a plate with apple sauce and we love a bit of puss round our neck to keep warm,"
( we wear fur scarves every day and yip today's one is puss. Very nice soft, black and white puss.)

Blissful Silence filled the footpath in her wake.

Sucky up pig and puss lovers shot down at close range- no bystanders injured.

POLICE NEED TO KEEP EYE ON BUDDING TERRORISTS

We read the story in the Sunday Star Times with some interest. We have been involved in the odd industry or two that have faced the wrath of activists on more than one occasion.
New Zealanders need to realise that the police are there to keep us safe and that some of the people who get involved in activism - aren't that nice. They are angry , often mentally disturbed and are quite willing to use violence to advance their various causes. While there are about 10 groups listed in the SST - there is considerable cross pollination among them and we have it on good authority that there are about 15 very odd, very violent, extreme people in the hard core of the New Zealand activist movement.

We also remain forever sceptical of anything activist Nicky Hager writes. He still does not follow any of the ethical guidelines of good journalism. So we wonder just how long that Gilchrist has been a " double" agent. What if he played at being a police informer - letting them know about stuff that was easy to find out anyway just so that some of the protesters would gain more publicity? What if the activists openly strategised about what information they would feed police through Gilchrist. ? Maybe at the behest of Hagar et al , he was sitting waiting for the best time to try and do the most damage to the police. Waiting for Hagar to cobble together a story about how vile the police were - how evil it was that they spied on " innocent" activists. The story raises many more questions than it answers.
If there is one thing we would urge all New Zealanders to believe , it is the fact that in the ranks of these odd, seemingly heroic activists, are some very very dangerous people who really do need to be watched every day.