ASIEH NAMDAR, CNN ANCHOR: Animal rights activists are on the attack against the pork industry in New Zealand. They claim crates used by farmers to house pigs result in animal cruelty. TV New Zealand reports.</s>ROBYN JANES, TVNZ CORRESPONDENT (voice-over): Drumming up support to ban the use of sow crates in our piggeries -- some of these protesters snuck into a wider upper (ph) piggery and took this amateur video, they say it shows pigs in cramped, damp conditions; dead pigs outside lying in a gutter, and bins full of dead piglets and fetuses.</s>BEN GRIFFITHS, WELLINGTON ANIMAL ACTION: Absolutely disgusting that fattening pigs are kept in small pens, they're full of -- filthy, they can't go anywhere.</s>BRIAN MILNE, PORK INDUSTRY BOARD: We will be following that up with the farmer concerned and have him look at that particular situation.</s>JANES (on camera): The issue of sow stalls is obviously a sensitive one for the pork industry board -- we were refused entry to film the agricultural minister's speech to the conference. (voice-over): The ministers message: no ban, but change of tactics. JIM SUFFON (ph),</s>AGRICULTURAL MINISTER: I suggested they go on the front foot and market free range, humanely produced New Zealand pork.</s>JANES: Just under 50 percent of our piggeries use sow crates, where pigs spend between six and 16 weeks. But the pork board says it is making changes, hoping that by 2015 sows will spend no longer than six weeks in the stalls.</s>MILNE: There are large investments involved and farmers have to have time to adjust to making the change.</s>JANES: But for these protesters, only a total ban will do. From Television New Zealand, I'm Robyn Janes, reporting for the CNN WORLD REPORT.
Animal Rights Activists Rally Against Pork Industry in New Zealand