I get to work at about 7:05 a. m. along with a few other colleagues. We have breakfast together to start the day off well – porridge every morning. It’s meant to be an extremely good way to start the day due to the low GI index of porridge which means I don’t usually need to eat again until lunchtime except maybe a piece of fruit.
I hadn’t meant to write about pigs again but this morning at the breakfast club talk turned to Jaimie Oliver’s programme on bacon – I hadn’t seen it. The people I was with said they had to turn it off. It was purely by chance that I had written about pig welfare in my blog last night. So I mentioned to my colleagues that what they had seen on the programme re British pig farming might actually be worse in some pig production farms in NZ. I told them about the article I had seen regarding a case of a farmer breaching the less than adequate standards that we already have – they were horrified to think that this could happen here. This article “Small sow stalls found even smaller!” SAFE LovePigs Campaign : Latest news was the one last month that made me stop purchasing pork. If even minimal regulation standards can’t be adhered to and enforced then I would rather opt out of eating pork altogether. So if you are out and about and chatting to people let them know that NZ is not leading the world in animal welfare and that we the consumers have the power to change things.