After two years, we’ve decided to move on to other projects. We’ll continue to fight for animals in other capacities. It’s crucial to step back and reflect on our work as advocates and regularly ask ourselves what kind of impact we’re having through our advocacy, and if we can use our skills and resources more […]
Canada’s Live Animal Export Trade: 2020
In 2020, nearly 19 million live animals were exported from Canada to 55 countries worldwide. While Canadians spent much of the year in lockdown because of the COVID-19 pandemic, the shipment of live animals from Canada continued virtually unabated. Setting aside the inherently cruel practice of shipping animals in long, harsh journeys on livestock trucks, […]
For Sale: Mink cages. Used.
An industrial fur farm in British Columbia’s Fraser Valley is selling thousands of mink cages. It’s unclear if this factory farm is closing its operations, reducing its size, or selling off old cages to buy new ones. These empty mink cages are relics of a horrific nightmare. No more screams, no more suffering. Decades upon […]
Yes, Canada has a fur farm industry. No, it shouldn’t exist.
On December 6, 2020, much of Canada learned that the country has a fur farm industry. The Fraser Health Authority announced a COVID-19 outbreak on a British Columbia mink farm. 8 people linked to the farm tested positive for COVID-19. 5 days later, it was discovered that mink had become infected with the coronavirus. Out […]
The end of gestation crates in Canada was scheduled for 2024. Now, it’s 2029.
In 2014, the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) updated their industry guidelines for pig welfare and recommended that the pork industry end the use of gestation crates (or sow stalls) by 2024. This statement is taken from NFACC’s website under the heading, What The Science Says: [T]here are scientifically supported negative welfare aspects of […]
Hylife Foods fined $75,000 for causing pain and distress to animals
On August 4, 2020, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) laid charges against Hylife Foods. The CFIA notification reads: “It is alleged that on September 18, 2018, Hylife Foods Inc. and Hylife Foods LP handled hogs and used equipment in Neepawa, Manitoba in a manner that caused the animals avoidable distress or pain, thereby committing […]
Going vegan is not enough. Go further.
Going vegan is an important first step in the fight for animal liberation. But it’s not enough. Individualizing the problem of animal exploitation to consumers absolves them from taking any additional, meaningful steps to dismantle the oppressive system of animal agriculture. By not eating animal products, there exists a fallacious assumption that by purchasing only […]
Exporting Cruelty: Canada’s Live Animal Export Trade
Earlier this year, the Guardian examined the global live export trade and found that, based on 2017 FAO data, Canada was the 3rd top exporter of farmed animals in the world. While campaigns to ban live exports exist in many countries, Canada quietly exports tens of millions of live animals unbeknownst to most of the […]
As slaughterhouse workers got sick, 330,000 tonnes of meat were being exported out of Canada
During the initial months of the coronavirus pandemic, we tracked COVID-19 outbreaks in Canadian slaughterhouses. Along with long-term care homes, slaughterhouses quickly became COVID-19 hotspots, with the Cargill slaughterhouse in High River, Alberta being the centre of Canada’s largest COVID-19 outbreak, with over 950 workers contracting the virus. Tragically, 3 people died because of that […]
Hundreds of COVID-19 cases linked to Cargill’s Alberta slaughterhouse highlights the greed and exploitation in the Canadian beef sector
On April 13, 2020, there were 38 confirmed cases of COVID-19 in a High River, Alberta slaughterhouse that is operated by Cargill, a company based in Minnesota, US. Just four days later, Alberta Health Services announced that there were now 358 COVID-19 cases linked to this slaughterhouse. This is the latest in a series of […]