Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals Archives

Animal Rights Groups Want Sow Stalls Out

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff June 9, 2011

Manitoba Pork’s recent pledge to phase out sow stalls over the next 14 years is too little and too late, according to animal rights activists. “The 2025 target date is 14 years in the future,” said Lynn Kavanagh, a director with Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals. “Besides, it’s only a recommendation – not a directive.

Hogs, Livestock

Planning For A Sow Housing Revolution

June 9, 2011

Bernie Peet is president of Pork Chain Consulting Ltd. of Lacombe, Alberta, and editor of Western Hog Journal. His columns will run every second week in the Manitoba Co-operator. By the end of next year, pig producers in the European Union should have converted any existing sow stall housing into group housing. Legislation requires them

Livestock

Groups Increase Pressure

By Manitoba Co-operator Staff May 26, 2011

Canadians for Ethical Treatment of Food Animals (CETFA) and the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals (CCFA) are asking Manitoba’s pork industry to voluntarily phase out sow stalls by 2017. Manitoba Pork’s own recently released report, Embracing a Sustainable Future, encourages its producers to stop using sow stalls by 2025. “The 2025 target date is 14

Hogs, Livestock, Opinion

Manitoba Has The Opportunity To Lead On Animal Welfare

By Lynn Kavanagh February 24, 2011

The animal agriculture industry is fond of telling the public their animals are well cared for. It’s often said that a picture is worth a thousand words, so when the public is presented with an image of a sow confined to a metal-barred gestation crate barely larger than her body and told that this is

Hogs, Livestock

Animal Welfare Activists Target Pig Castration

By Ron Friesen March 25, 2010

– Robyn Harte, MAFRI “It’s a recognized common practice in most of the world.” An animal welfare coalition is trying to end the practice of castrating male piglets by asking grocery stores in Canada to carry pork from intact pigs. “We politely ask you to take action and meet with your suppliers to discuss our

News

In Brief… – for Nov. 19, 2009

November 19, 2009

Shorter shipping stretches sought: A private members bill now before Parliament would reduce the maximum transportation time for ruminant livestock from 52 hours to 12 hours and from 36 to eight hours for pigs, poultry and horses. Bill C-468 was tabled by Brossard-La Prairie MP Alexandra Mendes October 28, according to the Canadian Coalition for

Opinion

Letters – for Apr. 23, 2009

April 23, 2009

Confinement systems fail “freedoms” test In mid-March a group of animal welfare organizations met here in Winnipeg to discuss agricultural confinement systems. The organizations that gathered included the Humane Society of the United States, the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies, the British Columbia SPCA, and the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals, Humane Society International, and

Hogs, Livestock, News, Poultry

California resolution rings alarm for livestock farmers in Canada

By Ron Friesen November 20, 2008

Largely unnoticed during the November 4 U. S. presidential election was the passage of a sweeping California ballot initiative which could have far-reaching effects for livestock production in North America. Proposition 2 will effectively ban gestation stalls, battery cages and veal crates in California by 2015. The initiative, which voters passed by a margin of

News

WHS hails California livestock law

November 13, 2008

The Winnipeg Humane Society last week congratulated California voters for passing Proposition 2 to phase out farmers’ use of gestation crates for breeding sows, battery cages for laying hens and crates for veal calves. WHS executive director Bill McDonald said the society has asked to meet with Premier Gary Doer “to review farm confinement practices

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Animal Rights Groups Want Sow Stalls Out

Planning For A Sow Housing Revolution

Groups Increase Pressure

Manitoba Has The Opportunity To Lead On Animal Welfare

Animal Welfare Activists Target Pig Castration

In Brief… – for Nov. 19, 2009

Letters – for Apr. 23, 2009

California resolution rings alarm for livestock farmers in Canada

WHS hails California livestock law

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