There is no doubt that 2020 was a challenging year for farmed animals. Here’s our round-up of the year’s events and how they affected animals….
For the first time ever, the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) has released a draft Code of Practice for farmed salmon (the most farmed…
The National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) has decided to allow pig producers to continue confining sows in cruel gestation crates until 2029 (five years…
The National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) has been given $4.56 million from the federal government to update its industry codes of practice, starting with…
When the pig codes were being reviewed and updated by the National Farm Animal Care Council, we urged the industry to adopt a requirement for…
The lives of rabbits farmed for their meat is a living hell. Conditions are so awful and disease, infection and parasites so rife that 25%…
· “Enriched” Cage Photo Credit: Animal Aid UK Normally we here at CETFA review the new NFACC codes of care as they are released and…
On January 1, 2016, 50,000 ducks burned alive in a barn fire at Brome Lake Ducks near Racine, Que., about an hour and a half from…
More than 250 dairy cows died yesterday in a barn fire south of Montreal, yet, according to a CBC article, “nobody was injured.” Please go…
In just the last week, nearly 3,000 animals have burned to death in Canadian barn fires. The fires have been spread across three provinces –…
