Canadian Coalition For Farm Animals
The federal government is bringing prison farms back to Canada, starting in Kingston Ontario. Despite the potential to create a healing and therapeutic program for prisoners, the new prison farms will primarily be an industrial goat dairy operation, with 2,200 goats producing milk expected to supply infant formula for China. Beef and dairy cows will …
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Canada has the shameful reputation of having some of the poorest animal “protection” and transport laws in the developed world. Agriculture use is but one on an exhaustive list of so-called “accepted activities” that are exempt as long as “codes of practice” are followed. It has to be, because it could not exist if held …
Have you ever seen or read about how animals are transported to the slaughterhouse? We can say that this is one of the most terrible stages of their life. The animals sentenced to death will be sent on a painful and often long journey. People do not even remotely imagine how millions of cows and …
Over the winter break, my family and I were able to volunteer a lot. I would highly recommend it as a family activity. We spent time together, experienced new things and met interesting folks, all while helping others. We are volunteering at a nursing home for residents with advanced dementia. Our highlight was having a …
This food at my school, I started something I’ve been wanting to get going for the past couple years — Meatless Mondays. After inviting classes to study World Food Day and the ways a plant-based diet can reduce world hunger, students were so engaged they came up with the idea of a meatless day at …
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