Ventilation Shutdown as a “Good Death”?!
A disturbing article in Poultry World recently proclaimed “Ventilation shutdown: A humane depopulation method”. As the article did not provide a link to the actual research used to arrive at […]
A disturbing article in Poultry World recently proclaimed “Ventilation shutdown: A humane depopulation method”. As the article did not provide a link to the actual research used to arrive at […]
The governments of Canada and Manitoba announced today that they are giving $2.5 million in funding to producer-owned Granny’s Poultry to expand its slaughter operations. CETFA has exposed Granny’s cruel […]
Always a leader in farmed animal welfare progress, the Netherlands has again made news as its three largest supermarkets – Albert Heijn, Jumbo and Lidl – have committed to stop […]
Earlier this week, a transport trailer carrying 8,000 chickens caught fire on a highway in Mississauga. While a few birds were able to escape from their broken transport crates, an […]
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, […]
On April 18, 2013, a student at the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, brought a live chicken into the school cafeteria. In front of spectators, the student slowly cut the throat […]
Following the slow beheading of a live chicken by a Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) student last month, ACAD fired a school instructor who allegedly allowed the cruel act to […]