{"id":757875,"date":"2019-08-04T08:18:33","date_gmt":"2019-08-04T12:18:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757875"},"modified":"2019-08-04T08:18:33","modified_gmt":"2019-08-04T12:18:33","slug":"animals-in-canada-protected-from-sexual-abuse-but-not-factory-farm-abuse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=757875","title":{"rendered":"Animals In Canada Protected from Sexual Abuse, But Not Factory Farm Abuse"},"content":{"rendered":"\t<blockquote  class=\"bs-quote bs-quote-1 bsq-t1 bsq-s1 bsq-left\">\n\t\t<div class=\"quote-content\">\n\t\t\t<p>The powerful factory farming industry has managed to keep its animal practices largely beyond the reach of Canadian government regulation, and Trudeau\u2019s new legislation won\u2019t stop any of this.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>LINDA McQUAIG:<\/strong> <em>&#8216;The Trudeau government\u2019s 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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>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.<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>But few people realize that \u2014 while there are some minimal regulations governing the transport and slaughter of animals \u2014 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&#8230; And Trudeau\u2019s new legislation won\u2019t stop any of this&#8230;<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em>Certainly the dividing line between humans and animals isn\u2019t as clear as once believed. Yet the legal divide remains vast \u2014 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\u2019s hard to see much of a moral justification for this vast difference, beyond the fact that we make the rules&#8217;.<\/em>\u00a0 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.commondreams.org\/views\/2019\/07\/28\/animals-protected-sexual-abuse-not-factory-farm-abuse\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>RELATED VIDEO:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HMbWPA-lvKg\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LINDA McQUAIG: &#8216;The Trudeau government\u2019s 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. 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