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

Guide
1991 After two years of lobbying, free range eggs are introduced onto the shelves of Pick 'n Pay and Woolworths.

1997 We play a role in the banning of live plucking of ostriches before slaughter. Our magazine Animal Voice publishes an NSPCA
photo of an ostrich plucked naked before slaughter. Animal Voice receives lawyers letters threatening legal action by the ostrich
industry. The NSPCA, with the University of the Free State, establishes that the anticipation of being plucked causes a sharp rise
in cortisol levels in ostriches. The Ostrich Chamber of Business draws up a code with The NSPCA that bans live plucking. 2008 - 2009
2001 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 undercover
footage by Compassion in World Farming shows unrelenting violence and abuse in some abattoirs in South Africa. In some
scenes, the 'devil's fork' used in Kosher slaughter hooks into the animal's eye sockets. The Livestock Welfare Co-ordinating
Committee, including the NSPCA, reach an agreement with the Beth Din for a nation-wide ban on the rotating box and devil's
fork. The NSPCA later confiscates two 'devil's forks' at an abattoir that had not heeded the ban.

2001 We take Humane Education into 11 schools in the Western Cape Education Department's Safe Schools programme. Caring
Classrooms, our ensuing documentary on the impact of Humane Education on learner behaviour is launched in Brussels and
receives international recognition. This documentary has also been shown at film festivals in Canada, Equador and Brazil.

2003 At the invitation of the Department of Education, we officially participate in the process of integrating Humane Education in the
SA Curriculum.

2003 Compassion in World Farming hosts the All-Africa Humane Education Summit in Cape Town. Educators from 18 African
countries attend. Mr Ronald Swartz, head of Education in the Western Cape, is our keynote speaker.

2003 Compassion in World Farming's SA representative and editor of Animal Voice, Louise van der Merwe, receives the Campaigner
of the Year Award by the International Fund for Animal Welfare and Animal Talk Magazine.

2004 Woolworths bans battery eggs from all its stores nationwide. CEO Simon Susman gives credit to CIWF (SA).

2004 Free range broiler (meat) chickens become available in some supermarkets.

2005 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.

2005 Also as a direct result of our documentary 'Saving Baby Ubuntu', The Dairy News, mouthpiece of the Milk Producers
Organisation, alerts farmers to the need to treat calves humanely. However, the treatment of calves remains an ongoing issue.

2006 We publish South Africa's first Kind Food Guide

2006 Under the chairmanship of Dr Manie Schoeman, Parliament opens debate on whether animals should be acknowledged as
sentient beings in the SA Constitution. This is as a direct result of our supporters lobbying Parliament for its acknowledgement of
animal sentience.

2006 Teacher Vivienne Rutgers who has worked closely with us for four years to become a Humane Education Specialist, is invited to
speak on Humane Education at the United Nations Forum on Sustainable Development, New York.

2007 Parliamentary Leader of the Opposition, Sandra Botha signs the worldwide Animals Matter to Me petition to the UN.

2007 Compassion in World Farming (SA) and Humane Education supporters collect more than 100 000 signatures for the Animals
Matter Petition and hand them to Deputy Director for Animal Health, Dr Siegfried Meyer.

2007 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 Awareness
Initiative in the Western Cape's informal settlements under the guidance of Mr Tozie Zokufa, Meat Inspector (Veterinary Public
Health officer).

2007 Our Humane Education readers are selected by the Western Cape Education Department for its 100 Books in Every Grade
project for 2008.

2007 Pick n Pay launches free range pork

2008 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.

2008 Compassion in World Farming (SA) launches Let's Ask the Animals, a documentary on animal sentience by the Universities of
Bristol and Cambridge, in Xhosa.

Please support our endeavours on behalf of Farmed Animals

Eggs
Use your Consumer Power to set laying
hens free!
By 2012, battery cages for laying hens
will be banned for their cruelty
throughout Europe. Yet, in South Africa,
22 million laying hens remain trapped in
a space allowance of less than an A4
sheet of paper - for life! They are all
debeaked so that if they peck each
other in the barren, cramped confines
of their cages, they won't do too much
harm. Only 3% of laying hens are free
range in South Africa. When this figure
reaches 10%, it becomes possible to
persuade authorities to ban battery
cages.
The
choice...
is
yours!
A pale yolk does not mean a
sub-standard egg.
Remember that the difference between
Free Range and Organic Eggs lies largely
in what the laying hens eat. Organic
eggs have to come from free range
hens that are fed organic food. This is
why many of Woolworths' organic eggs
have such a pale yolk. It is because only
wheat-based chicken feed is currently
certified as organic and wheat does not
colour the yolks a deep yellow. Grass
and lucerne cause the yolks to be deep
yellow.
To see life in a battery cage, please send
for our slide show: Which Comes First,
the Chicken or the Egg? Price: R25.00.
Email: janine@animal-voice.org
Congratulations Woolworths for
banning battery eggs from all
your stores nationwide!
To learn more about how consumers can make
a difference, please send for our DVDs:
Farm Animals and Us and Let's Ask the Animals
Price: R39.90 each.
Email: janine@animal-voice.org
Please support our endeavours on behalf of
Farmed Animals - please donate to:
The Humane Education Trust
Account No. 9094070046
Name of Bank: ABSA Bank, Somerset West
Branch No.: 334 – 712
Type of Account: Savings
Bank Address: 116 Main Road, Somerset West
7130, South Africa
SWIFT CODE: ABSAZAJJCCT
Pork
If you wouldn't keep your dog like this,
then speak up for pigs!
Pick n Pay is the first supermarket to
launch free range pork in selected
stores in Gauteng (Fourways and Cedar
Road) and it will soon be available in the
Western Cape at Pick n Pay's
Constantia, Gardens and Tokai stores.
However, 2.1 million breeding sows
remain confined in metal cages (as
shown in the picture) - for all of their
four-odd years of life.
Their piglets, reared in barren sheds on
factory farms, become our ham and
bacon.
The
choice...
is
yours!
Please insist on Free Range pork!
Chicken
Some 10 million broiler chickens are
slaughtered for their meat every week
in South Africa. About one third of
these chickens have suffered agonising
ammonia burns on their feet as a result
of having spent their short six-week lives
on faeces-saturated litter. Please buy
only Free Range chicken meat.
The parts they don't want you to see!
Milk
Most people have some
kind of vague idea that
cows produce milk
readily on tap for
human consumption.
However, like breast pumps, milking
machines draw out the milk from
inflated udders because the calves (or
kids, in the case of goats) are not there
to do it themselves. Pouring milk into a
glass, eating a tub of yoghurt or grating
cheese onto a pizza all require a process
of impregnation, gestation, birth and
lactation.
So where have all the calves gone so
that we can drink their milk and eat the
yoghurts and multitude of cheese
varieties? Well, calves - especially bull
calves who will never produce milk - are
'surplus' to the dairy industry. While
heifers will usually grow up to join the
milk parlour, it is the bull calves that
have the worst of it. They are either
killed at birth, dumped at auctions or
reared in tiny stalls for veal.
And, does the cow mind her
calf being removed so she can
give her milk to us? The answer
is yes!
To see the plight of dairy calves, please
order our documentary 'Saving Baby
Ubuntu'. Price: R39-90.
Examining Consumer Issues...
Email: janine@animal-voice.org
As a result of this documentary,
Woolworths gave a directive to its dairy
suppliers that all male calves must be
reared humanely until they reach
slaughter weight at about 18 months
old.
We drink their mothers’milk.
They drink milk substitute.
Lamb
Routine mutilations such as
castration and tail docking
of lambs without pain relief
has recently come under the spotlight as
a new report by the Farm Animal
Welfare Council in the UK confirms that
these mutilations cause considerable
pain and distress.
Examining Consumer Issues...
Did you know?
Turning just one
chicken into meat at
the abattoir takes an
estimated 14 litres of
water. Multiply this
figure by the number of
chickens slaughtered
annually in South Africa
(761 million) and the
lake of water that drains away from chicken
abattoirs is 10.6 billion litres annually – or 29
million litres daily.
To turn just one ox into meat takes up to 9000
litres of water at the abattoir alone.
We are told that we have a choice between
kind and cruel food and that the market is
driven by our choices.
However, Compassion in World Farming
(South Africa) believes it is every consumer's
right to assume that the animal-derived food
presented in supermarkets, has been reared
and treated humanely from birth to death.
Since farmers do not welcome visits from the
public, consumers are unable to make
informed choices.
While Vegans believe that Freedom of
Conscience means eating no animal-derived
food 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 in
our struggle for a sustainable and humane
way of life, is to ensure that animals lead lives
worth living, free of pain and fear.
Please write to National Consumer Forum
chairman, Mr Thami Bolani, and ask him to
help achieve a 9th Consumer Right - namely:
Freedom of Conscience.
Mr Bolani's email address is: ncf@sabs.co.za
The eight existing consumer rights are:
safety • information • choice • representation
redress • consumer education
satisfaction of basic needs • a healthy environment
Did you know?
About one-third of the
chicken feet sold to
the poorest of the
poor are scorched
black with ammonia
burns from standing
on filthy litter. Some
are infected and ooze
pus. They are sold to
the poor at 50 cents a foot. Between Rainbow
Chicken Ltd., County Fair, Tydstroom and
others, some 10 million broiler chickens are
slaughtered every week in South Africa.
At 50 cents a foot, the poor are paying
generously for chicken feet.