{"id":760780,"date":"2020-06-20T07:08:43","date_gmt":"2020-06-20T11:08:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760780"},"modified":"2020-06-20T07:54:06","modified_gmt":"2020-06-20T11:54:06","slug":"for-the-animals-animal-rights-activist-killed-by-truck-while-holding-vigil-outside-ontario-slaughterhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/?p=760780","title":{"rendered":"ANIMAL RIGHTS MATTER: Animal rights activist killed by truck while holding vigil outside Ontario slaughterhouse"},"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>In front of the truck, Regan asked the driver to stop for two minutes to bear witness to pigs, say goodbye, and give them water. The truck did not stop.<\/p>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t<\/blockquote>\n\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>CANADIAN PRESS:<\/strong> A long-time animal rights activist, died after being hit by a truck while protesting outside a slaughterhouse west of Toronto on Friday, her friend said. Anita Krajnc, co-founder of the group Toronto Pig Save, said the woman was one of a handful of activists with her organization holding vigil outside a pork processing plant in Burlington, Ont., on Friday. &#8220;She was in front of the truck when it ran over her,&#8221; said Krajnc, who wasn&#8217;t at the vigil, but relayed what one of the witnesses saw&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Halton police said they received a call around 10:20 a.m. about a pedestrian who had been struck by a transport truck. They said the woman [Regan Russell], in her 60s, was pronounced dead at the scene. The group has long protested the slaughter of pigs at Fearman&#8217;s Pork and were there Friday to protest the recent passage provincial legislation that protects farmers from animal rights activists who trespass on their property&#8230;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Toronto Pig Save, along with many other animal rights activists, vociferously protested the passage of the bill, which they referred to as the &#8220;ag gag&#8221; bill. &#8220;There was a feeling to bear witness to the pigs and this person, our friend, was showing compassion and love to the animals for years,&#8221; Krajnc said. Toronto Pig Save regularly holds &#8220;vigils&#8221; outside the facility, and on hot days activists will feed water to the pigs as they&#8217;re taken to slaughter.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">&#8220;We have had many close calls here,&#8221; Krajnc said. &#8220;We have asked for trucks to stop for two minutes so we can bear witness, say goodbye to the pigs and give them water&#8221;&#8230; The group plans to hold an all-night vigil in honour of their friend and the pigs she loved, Krajnc said. &#8220;We have asked management to get some of these pigs in the truck to a sanctuary in her name,&#8221; she said. <a href=\"https:\/\/toronto.ctvnews.ca\/animal-rights-activist-killed-while-holding-vigil-outside-ontario-slaughterhouse-1.4991704\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>SOURCE&#8230;<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p>RELATED VIDEO:<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.cbc.ca\/i\/caffeine\/syndicate\/?mediaId=1753142339978\" width=\"720\" height=\"405\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>CANADIAN PRESS: A long-time animal rights activist, died after being hit by a truck while protesting outside a slaughterhouse west of Toronto on Friday, her friend said. Anita Krajnc, co-founder of the group Toronto Pig Save, said the woman was one of a handful of activists with her organization holding vigil outside a pork processing [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":760781,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[16,20,21,23,25],"tags":[27,30,31,35,37],"class_list":["post-760780","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-culture","category-justice","category-kisnship","category-rights","category-welfare","tag-cruelty","tag-exploitation","tag-farming","tag-protection","tag-speciesism"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760780","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=760780"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760780\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":760786,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/760780\/revisions\/760786"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/760781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=760780"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=760780"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/animalrightswatch.us\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=760780"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}