![Help Animals Get the Protection They Deserve](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/12/5623549660_87f9a4a98d_o-470x140.jpg)
As CETFA supporters know, Canada’s animal cruelty laws lag far behind the rest of the Western world. In an attempt to bring long overdue amendments…
![Walmart USA announces new animal welfare commitments](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/09/6763709353_399276e39a_z-2-470x140.jpg)
Walmart USA made some surprising announcements Friday, calling on its suppliers to move away from battery cages and gestation crates and urging a reduction in…
![Chickens die during trailer fire](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/mississauga-fire-chicken-truck-470x140.jpg)
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…
![Drug-Laced Feed Tied to Hoof Loss in Cattle Re-Approved for Use in Canada](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/02/sick-beef-cow-470x140.jpg)
Zilmax – the medicated feed billed as a growth-promoter in cattle exposed by Reuters as causing the hooves of animals fed it to fall off…
![New Campaign Exposes Hidden Sex-Based Abuses of Factory Farmed Animals](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2015/01/5623699918_0cd91e3007_o1-470x140.jpg)
A new meme-based CETFA campaign is helping educate Canadians on the abuses inflicted upon farmed animals based on their sex in today’s factory farms. Each…
![B.C.: MASS SUFFOCATION ORDERED FOR INFECTED POULTRY](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/12/gassing-at-a-manitoba-turkey-breeding-barn1-470x140.jpg)
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…
![Turkey Breeding Company Hybrid Turkeys Faces Animal Cruelty Charges](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/expertspageimage2-470x140.jpg)
Hybrid Turkeys, one of the largest turkey breeding companies in the world, faces 11 animal cruelty charges following the release of an undercover video earlier this…
![Cruel Entertainment: Quebec Pig Festival](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/festival-du-cochon-website-470x140.jpg)
Every year, the municipality of Sainte-Perpétue, in Quebec, holds an event known as “festival du cochon” (pig festival). During this event, domestic pigs of different…
![Lilydale charged for violations of the Health of Animals Act and Meat Inspection Act](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/poultry-transport-in-freezing-conditions-2-470x140.jpg)
Poultry slaughterhouse Lilydale has just been charged by the CFIA under the Health of Animals Act and Meat Inspection Act. The charges stem from exposing chickens…