Canada’s Shame: Outdated Transport Laws Kill More Than 20,000 Farmed Animals Each Day

A recent National
Observer article discusses the lack of protection for farmed animals transported
in Canada.

In early 2015, Mercy For Animals released a hidden-camera
video revealing countless
chickens packed into tiny transport cases headed to Maple Lodge Farms, Canada’s
largest independent poultry processing plant.

MFA’s cameras had captured the horrors of live export in
Canada before.

In 2014, an undercover investigation of Western Hog Exchange
in Red Deer, Alberta, exposed the terrifying truth behind this cruel industry: Pigs beaten and
packed into trucks to endure freezing temperatures, dehydration, disease, and
frostbite. It’s estimated that 8 million animals die during transport in Canada
annually.

Canada is far behind the rest of the modern world when it
comes to live export. In fact, it’s been more than a decade since the Canadian
government updated its live transport laws.

Krista Hiddema, MFA’s managing director in Canada, states:

What is particularly noteworthy is
that in Canada we fall far behind every other Western country as it relates to
animal transportation. When it comes to how live, breathing animals are shipped
to slaughter, Canada’s regulations fall well behind the standards of Australia,
New Zealand, the European Union and the United States.

Tell Canada it’s time to overhaul its archaic transport regulations. Sign our petition urging the minister of agriculture to update them.

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