The powerful factory farming industry has managed to keep its animal practices largely beyond the reach of Canadian government regulation, and Trudeau’s new legislation won’t stop any of this.
LINDA McQUAIG: ‘The Trudeau government’s new animal welfare legislation, passed by Parliament last month, stipulates that any sexual contact with an animal is illegal, and toughens up the rules against bestiality and other off-beat animal abuse practices. One might conclude that, perhaps in response to increased public sensitivity, the government is cracking down on the worst mistreatment of animals. Nothing could be further from the truth.
While the new legislation will help protect a relatively small number of animals from unwanted sexual advances from their owners, it provides no protection whatsoever for the hundreds of millions of animals living miserable, pain-filled lives trapped inside our factory farming system. Most people can imagine that these animals experience some unpleasantness the last day or two of their lives.
But few people realize that — while there are some minimal regulations governing the transport and slaughter of animals — there are effectively no laws protecting their welfare during the rest of their lives. The powerful factory farming industry has managed to keep its animal practices largely beyond the reach of government regulation… And Trudeau’s new legislation won’t stop any of this…
Certainly the dividing line between humans and animals isn’t as clear as once believed. Yet the legal divide remains vast — on one side, humans enjoy extensive legal protections covering all aspects of our lives. On the other side, animals have virtually no protections, even against the infliction of extreme pain. It’s hard to see much of a moral justification for this vast difference, beyond the fact that we make the rules’. SOURCE…
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