S.P.C.A. branch opposes live sheep boycott
PA Palmerston North The Feilding branch of the Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals will dissociate itself from its national office over the export of live sheep. Feilding S.P.C.A. members are worried they will lose community support if they participate in action likely to hurt farmers. The S.P.C.A.’s national president, Mr Neil Wells, has been instrumental in a threatened world-wide boycott of New Zealand agricultural products over
sub-standard treatment of live sheep being exported. The Feilding branch had already ’ suffered a backlash from Mr Wells’s statement, said the branch president, Ms Kathy Cookson.
One Feilding organisation refused financial support for the society’s new building.
Ms Cookson said this was not the main reason for not supporting a national boycott of New Zealand products. “We’re definitely against live-sheep exports, but we don’t agree with putting a ban on farm products to stop them,” Ms Cookson said.
“It is going to affect so many people that the country is only going to get in a bigger mess than we are in now.” The branch has sent notice of its dissociation from Mr Wells’ statements to all other branches in New Zealand.
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