Bill C-275 overestimates risk of human-to-animal disease transmission
The discussion in Parliament on Bill C-275—an Act to amend the Health of Animals Act (biosecurity on farms)—would benefit from some additional public health perspective on the potential risks of zoonotic transmission between humans and farm animals. After being introduced in the House in May of last year, C-275 passed third reading on Nov. 29, […]
The real threat to our food supply and public health is lack of regulation
If Canada had more robust laws and regulations ensuring animal welfare on farms, we would have no need for whistleblowers.
Animal rights activists threaten our health and food supply
That confined animal feeding operations follow veterinary-approved codes of practice means they are exercising ‘reasonable care’ under the law, a fact conveniently overlooked by animal rights activists.
Unjust, unwise, and unconstitutional: Bill C-275 has no place in Canada
The Conservative private member’s bill is an ‘ag-gag’ law that would restrict public access to information about practices within the animal agriculture industry.
Canada is using chemical firm’s talking points in trade dispute with Mexico
The federal government’s position has serious implications for Canada’s ability to protect Canadians from pesticides.
Private member’s bill uses biosecurity and infectious diseases as a smokescreen
Rather than passing an ag gag law to reduce transparency and target compassionate citizens who document animal suffering, Parliamentarians should focus on the real threat: the harmful underbelly of an industry lacking oversight of both biosecurity practices and the treatment of farmed animals.
The Senate can protect Canada’s future as a trading nation
The Red Chamber should put a stop to Bill C-282, which would prevent Canada from ever contemplating international trade concessions in sectors regulated through the system of supply management.
Supply management policy: a non-negotiable Canadian institution
Supply management accounts for 350,000 jobs across the country, including 115,000 in Quebec, adds $30-billion to the country’s GDP and generates $7-billion in tax revenue. The economic dimension alone justifies maintaining such a beneficial policy for Canadian workers and farmers.
In France, a culinary counteroffensive represents the meat industry’s decline
Stand by for Big Meat to launch a long, slanderous campaign against plant-based protein and its rival, ‘farm-free’ food, based on protein produced by ‘precision fermentation.’
Death by a thousand shadows: MacAulay must defend Canada’s Central Experimental Farm
Development adjacent to the farm has implications that are unique, and, as such, the City of Ottawa and the federal government should work together to establish unique parameters for this area.
