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Animal Transportation
 Agriculture
Canada reports that over 3.5 million animals arrive dead or dying
at federally inspected slaughterhouses each year. These animals
are known as downers. This number becomes dramatically larger when
the animals that are transported to provincially inspected slaughterhouses
are factored in.
Farmed animals in Canada face routine abuses and
traumas during transport such as beatings and electric shocks, denial
of food and water, extreme temperatures, journeys up to 72 hours,
overcrowding, and fatigue. Animals that collapse during transport
as a result are dragged off the truck with electric winches and
chains.
Despite the prevalence of abuse, the Canadian
Food Inspection Agency (a department of Agriculture Canada that
oversees animal transport) convicts and fines a mere 6 truckers
each year for violating the law. Given the more than 500,000 truckloads
of animals on the road in any given year en route to slaughter,
these convictions are an empty gesture at best.
The Canadian government has turned a blind eye
to the suffering of hundreds of millions of animals, while the meat,
dairy and egg industries profit from their pain.
Please take a moment to learn more about animal
transport and what you can do to help
millions of abused animals.
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