The Canadian Government is revising its Agricultural Policy Framework. Only one thing is missing to the ammendments: ANIMAL WELFARE!! Click HERE for more information on the APF!
Agriculture and Agri-Food Canada
Sir John Carling Building, Rm. 331
930 Carling Avenue
Ottawa, ON
K1A OC5
RE: Amendments to the Agricultural Policy Framework (APF)
Dear Sir/Madam,
I am shocked that the APF does not include any mention of animal welfare standards. Given the institutionalized cruelty involved in animal agriculture, this represents an incredible omission and an animal welfare crisis of enormous implications.
At present, over 90 percent of Canadian farm animals are raised in intensive confinement. With their basic behavioural needs denied for the sake of profit maximization, most farm animals live lives of intense stress, suffering, and sadness.
I urge the government to immediately include strong animal welfare standards in the APF. Please eliminate the cruel practices that are currently sanctioned. Eliminate battery cages for hens and gestation crates for sows. Eliminate the needless suffering of veal calf’s confined in total darkness, inhibited from movement, and fed a deliberately deficient diet; or an all-too long list of other abuses. I see an industry that
treats animals as inanimate objects and is inherently cruel and inhumane.
More animals die inhumanely for food production than any other industry yet there is no protection for these animals. Please change this in the new APF.
Sincerely,
