![Classic Misdirection in National Chicken Council's Assurance Standards](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/09/Chicken_meat_industry_crippled-470x140.jpg)
The American National Chicken Council has just announced its adoption of what it calls the “4 Chicken Guarantees“—a set of standards all producers are said…
![Ventilation Shutdown as a "Good Death"?!](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/08/OK_food_LAPS-470x140.jpg)
A disturbing article in Poultry World recently proclaimed “Ventilation shutdown: A humane depopulation method”. As the article did not provide a link to the actual…
![Cruel Slaughterhouse Awarded $2.5 Million](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/close-up-of-grannys-trailer-470x140.gif)
The governments of Canada and Manitoba announced today that they are giving $2.5 million in funding to producer-owned Granny’s Poultry to expand its slaughter operations….
![Major Dutch Retailers to Stop Selling Factory Farmed Chicken](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/buff-470x140.jpg)
Always a leader in farmed animal welfare progress, the Netherlands has again made news as its three largest supermarkets – Albert Heijn, Jumbo and Lidl…
![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…
![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…
![Killing animals is not art: sign our petition!](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/chicken-looking-at-her-kill-470x140.gif)
On April 18, 2013, a student at the Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) in Calgary, Alberta, Canada, brought a live chicken into the school cafeteria. In front of spectators, the…
![Chicken killed at Calgary school: teacher reinstated](http://cetfa.org/wp-content/uploads/2013/04/chicken-470x140.png)
Following the slow beheading of a live chicken by a Alberta College of Art and Design (ACAD) student last month, ACAD fired a school instructor who allegedly…