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One of eight billboards placed on busy Winnipeg streets as part of a Winnipeg Humane Society campaign criticizing the treatment of pigs.

WHS campaign targets Manitoba hog industry

Group says the billboard campaign is meant to spur discussion ahead of the election; industry says its off the mark

By Don Norman September 1, 2023

A new Winnipeg Humane Society billboard campaign takes aim at Manitoba’s pork industry. Eight billboards have gone up around Manitoba’s most populous city, all carrying various warning messages about pig welfare on farms and during transportation in the province. “Our goal is to educate consumers on the various animal welfare red flags that are associated

Letters

Letters: Care, knowledge, passion at the heart of Canada’s egg industry

By Roger Pelissero August 16, 2023

In response to the July 20 Co-operator article, “Survey says Canadians want cage-free eggs but purchase choices don’t agree”: The article is largely based on a survey commissioned by an animal activist group in partnership with a U.K.-based polling firm seeking to eliminate the consumption of animal protein. Their agenda is not to contribute to

The pork sector is concerned about the legal precedent of the state-level Prop 12.

Hogs, News

U.S. pork firms divided over bill to overturn Prop 12

The California animal welfare law is set to come into effect in the New Year

By Leah Douglas August 15, 2023

Reuters – Some big U.S. pork producers that have spent money to comply with a California law requiring more living space for certain farm animals are lukewarm about legislation proposed in the U.S. Congress that would overturn the state law. Why it matters: Canadian pork groups say Prop 12 will introduce non-tariff trade barriers and

Laying hens in cage-free aviary housing at the Manitoba Egg Farmers Learning and Resource Centre at Glenlea.

News, Poultry

Survey says Canadians want cage-free eggs but purchase choices don’t agree

The Canadian egg-farming sector is about halfway into a transition to enriched cage housing

By Geralyn Wichers July 25, 2023

Do Canadians want cage-free eggs? Survey says yes. But the data says they’re not voting with their wallets. In a survey of more than 1,000 Canadians, 72 per cent of respondents said Canada’s code of practice should ban caged confinement of laying hens. The survey, released this summer, comes from Bryant Research, a U.K. firm

Livestock

Activists target Ontario hog farm with ransomware

'We are dealing with adversaries whose motivation is not money'

By GFM Network News, Matt McIntosh July 20, 2023

A ransomware on a small Ontario hog business is something a cybersecurity expert says needs more attention from the agriculture industry. Instead of cash, the attackers demanded the hog business owners publicly admit to what they alleged to be livestock mistreatment. The occurrence was unique and alarming, says Ali Dehghantanha, Canada research chair in cybersecurity

Livestock

Animal care council won’t update livestock transport code of practice

NFACC says 'no further action' pending

By Dave Bedard, GFM Network News June 6, 2023

After over four years’ publicly funded work to develop an updated national code of practice for livestock transport for Canada, the National Farm Animal Care Council has called a halt. In an information update dated May 1, NFACC said its board has now decided “no further action will be taken” by the council to update

I expect this will result in a patchwork of laws that are likely to make U.S. meat producers very uncomfortable. Ultimately, it could push Congress to set federal standards.

Comment, Op/Ed

Comment: Court ruling could catalyze new wave of U.S. animal welfare laws

The precedent could leave pork trade to navigate an eventual legislative patchwork

By David Favre June 5, 2023

Should California be able to require higher welfare standards for farm animals raised outside its borders if products from those animals are to be sold in California? On May 11, the U.S. Supreme Court decided the answer is yes. The result was determined by a 5-4 vote in the court case, National Pork Producers Council

Hogs, Livestock

U.S. Supreme Court upholds California’s pig confinement law

Dissent suggests 'substantial burden against interstate commerce'

By GFM Network News May 11, 2023

Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, rejecting an industry challenge claiming that the voter-backed animal welfare measure impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers. The justices voted 5-4 to uphold a lower court’s dismissal of a

Meagan King of the University of Manitoba is delving into the link between human and livestock well-being.

Dairy cattle, Livestock, News

Do healthy humans make for happy cows?

Study looks to link human well-being with animal welfare outcomes

By Gord Leathers May 2, 2023

Meagan King of the University of Manitoba’s Department of Animal Sciences has noted a lot of progress in how cows are kept, particularly dairy cows. Now she’s rounding up data on the welfare of another social species important to the well-being of domestic cattle: their human minders. “We’re so focused on healthy animals and animal

Amy te Plate-Church, with the U.S. Centre for Food Integrity, was the keynote speaker at the Manitoba Pork Council’s annual meeting April 13.

News

Values lead on public trust

Most Canadians are happy to eat meat if animals are treated humanely, but aren’t sure about farmer practices, survey shows

By Geralyn Wichers May 2, 2023

The agriculture industry may be answering the wrong questions when addressing concerns about animal welfare. “We’ve been providing answers to ‘can we?’ The public is asking ‘should we?’” said Amy te Plate-Church, a speaker with the U.S.-based Centre for Food Integrity and guest of honour at the Manitoba Pork Council’s annual meeting April 13. While

Daily Network News

Strong 2025 could mean complications for Canadian grain sector in 2026 says analyst

Egyptian wheat imports to be firm as domestic output increases

Federal government to ease some restrictions on temporary foreign workers

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