Insights and Stories on Animal Welfare

Ag minister talks Proposition 12, VCOOL with the U.S.’s Vilsack

Jan. 19, 2024 at 10:56 am CST

Proposition 12 and voluntary country of origin labelling (VCOOL) were among topics raised during federal Ag Minister Lawrence MacAulay's first ministerial trip to to the U.S. after being appointed to the portfolio late last year.

Anti-activist bill back before Commons committee

Oct. 5, 2023 at 10:26 pm CDT

By Geralyn Wichers

‘Shocking’ farm videos barred at egg-price antitrust trial in Chicago

Sep. 20, 2023 at 3:34 pm CDT

By Mike Scarcella

Cattle sector weighs in on new traceability regs

Sep. 8, 2023 at 2:04 pm CDT

By Melissa Jeffers-Bezan

Activists target Ontario hog farm with ransomware

Jul. 20, 2023 at 11:44 am CDT

By Matt McIntosh

Animal care council won’t update livestock transport code of practice

Jun. 5, 2023 at 7:12 pm CDT

After over four years’ publicly funded work to develop an updated national code of practice for livestock transport for Canada, the National Farm Animal Care Council has called a halt. In an information update dated May 1, NFACC said its board has now decided “no further action will be taken” […]

By Dave Bedard

U.S. Supreme Court upholds California’s pig confinement law

May. 11, 2023 at 12:37 pm CDT

Reuters — The U.S. Supreme Court on Thursday preserved a California law banning the sale of pork in America’s most-populous state from pigs kept in tightly confined spaces, rejecting an industry challenge claiming that the voter-backed animal welfare measure impermissibly regulates out-of-state farmers. The justices voted 5-4 to uphold a […]

By Andrew Chung Nate Raymond

Continuous tie-stall housing to be phased out in new dairy code of practice

Mar. 31, 2023 at 7:32 pm CDT

New guidelines for dairy cattle care will improve animal welfare while also potentially increasing farm productivity, Dairy Farmers of Canada says. “I think that we’ve come to a very solid revised code,” David Wiens, DFC’s vice-president, said in an interview. The National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC) on Thursday released […]

By Geralyn Wichers

Swiss reject initiative to ban factory farming

Sep. 26, 2022 at 2:28 am CDT

Geneva | Reuters — Swiss voters on Sunday rejected a proposal to ban factory farming in a referendum on whether the wealthy country’s strict animal welfare laws need to be tightened yet further. The government’s VoteInfo App showed a provisional result of 62.86 per cent of votes against the proposal, […]

By Cecile Mantovani

Icahn drops proxy fights with Kroger’s, McDonald’s

Jun. 6, 2022 at 2:47 am CDT

Reuters — Billionaire investor Carl Icahn is dropping a proxy fight focused on the treatment of pregnant pigs at Kroger Co. after losing a similar fight with McDonald’s Corp last month, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday. “I congratulate the McDonald’s team on their victory in this proxy engagement and, […]

By Reuters

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