Visites d'Animals Angels au Canada

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2004-11-08 - 2004-11-17 | Canada | Provinces Ontario and Quebec


An Animals’ Angels team visited several animal auctions in both provinces. At every auction, several thousand animals were offered for sale, mostly cattle, pigs, sheep and horses. Contrary to European conditions, every animal was auctioned individually, which enormously increased the stress for the animals. There were still a lot of downers, i.e. cows who were so weak that they collapsed onto the floor of the transport truck or the auction ring. Their fate entirely depended on the presence of a control authority giving orders for or carrying out the killing of the animals. Otherwise, the animals were simply drawn into a corner and left lying there until they died slowly and painfully.





2004-10-04 - 2004-10-20 | Canada, Hawaii | Alberta

An Animals’ Angels team carried out investigations into the transport of "slaughter" pigs from Alberta/Canada via California to Hawaii. The animals were on the road nonstop, in a truck without drinking facilities - and with only one driver ! – for 30 hours until reaching Vacaville, California. There, they stayed in old, rusty iron containers for a period lasting from three days to a fortnight. Then they were brought to the port of Oakland and shipped to Oahu, Hawaii – a journey lasting at least four days depending on the weather conditions. After having been unloaded, the animals were trucked to a slaughterhouse and killed on the following day. The Animals’ Angels team documented the entire journey as well as the condition of several injured and dead pigs. These journeys also take place in the opposite direction. Cattle, for example, are transported from Hawaii to the U.S. or to Vancouver in Canada for further fattening. The mortality rate for cattle shipped long distances is considerably higher than for pigs. Animals’ Angels have already entered into talks with the Canadian authorities with an aim to seek a ban on these long-distance transports.





2004-07-22 | Canada | Montreal

An Animals’ Angels team met with representatives of the Merritt Livestock Trailer Company to forewarn them that Canada would soon develope stricter legislation and they should thus construct better trailers in water and ventilation systems, like we have in the EU.



2004-07-21 | Canada | Montreal

The Animals’ Angels team met with representatives of the Quebec Federation of Pork Production and took the opportunity to express all the various complaints found in connection with Canadian pig transports. July 21 – 22, 2004, Motorways, Germany An Animals’ Angels team accompanied a transport truck loaded with "slaughter" cows from Dresden to a slaughterhouse near Pforzheim. Some cows had not been milked and one cow had an udder injury. Animals’ Angels had the truck inspected by the highway police. The official veterinarian was not available and therefore the truck could continue its journey. Only after six hours of arriving at the slaughterhouse were the animals finally unloaded. Animals’ Angels have filed charges against the transport company.



2004-07-19 - 2004-07-20 | Canada, USA | Borders

Together with Canadian veterinary inspectors, an Animals’ Angels team carried out an inspection of one animal transport truck. On board was a dead pig and thus was refused entry until a 2nd truck would arrive to take away the dead corpse.






2004-07-14 | Canada | Montreal

An Animals’ Angels team participated in a demonstration protesting against animal transports.






2004-07-06 | Canada | Ottawa


An Animals’ Angels team was invited to a meeting at the Ministry of Agriculture. Eight high-ranking officials were present in order to discuss with us the proposed new transport legislation that is scheduled to be ready by the end of 2005.






2004-02-13 | Canada

Animals Angels team spent 3 weeks in Canada this February. We had a dual purpose of being in Canada once again: to trail livestock trucks during Canadian winter conditions to see what this is like for the animals, and to release our film on North America animal transport problems to the media. We ended up trailing 3 trucks, 2 with fattening calves and one with slaughter pigs, 47 hours during a heavy snow-storm. As some points the trucks could only go 40-50km per hour, and thus the journey which normally takes an already long 35 hours took even longer. Some of the pigs located close to the ventilation holes of the truck were covered in snow, causing their skin to freeze. The pigs were only going to a collecting station in southern Ontario to then be reloaded and further sent to a slaughterhouse in the USA! Our report on these trailings will be sent shortly to pertinent Canadian authorities and welfare groups. After the trailing we released our new film from our Canadian transport investigation August 2003 to the media, which took a great interest in it. The most important was a national report on CBC, Canada´s most respected and watched television station. The head of humane transport from the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA - a branch of the Canadian government responsible for the welfare of farm animals during transport and slaughter) was questioned about the lack of adequate animal welfare during transport legislation in Canada. He agreed the film gave reason for concern and that within 2 years Canada shall have animal transport legislation as good as or better than found in Europe. We will continue to run investigations in Canada to ensure that the CFIA stays true to their word (which we really hope they do!)

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