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Kōrero: Animal welfare and rights

Advocating vegetarianism

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Advocating vegetarianism

Animal rights activists usually advocate a 'cruelty-free' diet – vegetarian (no flesh) or vegan (no flesh, eggs, honey or dairy products) – on the grounds that diets that contain these foods cause actual or potential suffering to animals. This group of vegetarians made their views clear during a protest outside the New Zealand Meat Industry conference at Te Papa in Wellington in 2007.

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Alexander Turnbull Library, Dylan Owen Collection

Reference: PADL-000171-9

by Dylan Owen

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Nancy Swarbrick, Animal welfare and rights – Animal liberation and animal rights, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/photograph/41779/advocating-vegetarianism (accessed 4 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Nancy Swarbrick, i tāngia i te 29 May 2013.