Help Stop The Barn Fire Epidemic By Starting With Québec
For several years now, the province of Québec has seen a record number of animals die in barn fires. While such tragedies are sadly nothing new, the phenomenon has reached […]
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NFACC’S ROTTEN EGG CODE
Normally we here at CETFA review the new NFACC codes of care as they are released and provide detailed comments for our supporters to use as a guide while providing […]
Important E-Petitions For Farmed Animals
There are currently two electronic petitions that have the potential to dramatically improve the lives of Canadian farmed animals. Please consider signing and sharing them with your friends and family. […]
Help Animals Get the Protection They Deserve
As CETFA supporters know, Canada’s animal cruelty laws lag far behind the rest of the Western world. In an attempt to bring long overdue amendments to the Criminal Code of […]
Federal Government Continues to Fail Animals
A CBC article today quoted the Director of Building Regulations from the National Research Council (the body currently updating the National Farm Building Code), as stating that the committee members […]
First Barn Fire of 2016 Claims 50,000 Lives
On January 1, 2016, 50,000 ducks burned alive in a barn fire at Brome Lake Ducks near Racine, Que., about an hour and a half from Montreal. According to company CEO, […]
Draft Code Offers Turkeys and Chickens Little
As part of its process of reviewing industry Codes of Practice for the Care and Handling of farmed animals in Canada, the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) has released […]
250 dairy cows burn to death in Quebec
More than 250 dairy cows died yesterday in a barn fire south of Montreal, yet, according to a CBC article, “nobody was injured.” Please go to this link and leave […]
Take Action to End Barn Fires in Canada
In just the last week, nearly 3,000 animals have burned to death in Canadian barn fires. The fires have been spread across three provinces – two in Quebec, one in […]
B.C.: MASS SUFFOCATION ORDERED FOR INFECTED POULTRY
Last week, the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) announced that two factory farms in B.C.’s Fraser Valley tested positive for avian influenza. Testing found the virus at a turkey farm in Abbotsford and a broiler chicken breeding facility in Chilliwack. Following the announcement, three more Fraser Valley farms were subsequently quarantined. More than 140,000 birds are set to be euthanized as a result. This isn’t the first bird flu outbreak found in the Fraser Valley. In 2004, […]
