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Canadians for the Ethical Treatment of Food Animals (CETFA) is an investigative and educational organization established to examine intensive farming practices, with particular attention to abusive practices; hazards to human health; environmental impacts; and the role of power politics in maintaining the system while withholding public access to factual information. We seek to address these interconnected issues through investigation, education and advocacy of the compassionate treatment of farmed animals.

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    • With a $10/yr membership you will directly help suffering farm animals by ensuring they receive medical care, water, warmth and kindness by our inspectors.
    • You will also receive our newsletter detailing recent investigations and updates, as well as quick and easy Action Alerts to help directly impact welfare of farm animals in Canada.

    Please note:  CETFA is not a registered charity and as such cannot issue tax receipts.  We've deliberately chosen non-charity status as it allows us to advocate more fully for farm animals.

    Make cheques payable to CETFA and send along with your name and address to:

    CETFA Vancouver - Membership
    Box #18024
    2225 West 41st Avenue
    Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6M 4L3

  • Donate

    • Keep our inspectors in the field advocating for and providing relief and care to sick, injured and abused farm animals.
    • Help us produce comprehensive reports based on our in-field investigations to bring about legislative reform, policy development and improvements in the     transport and slaughter of farm animals.

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Interviews

CJOB radio interview with Kevin Newman and Twyla Francois on No Country for Animals (3:00 PM, timestamp 7:10)

CTV coverage on starvation & suffocation of 2,000+ pigs in Manitoba June 22, 2010

CBC coverage on Barn Fires in Manitoba May 24, 2010 (timestamp 7:50-10:20)

Watch "Bringing Home the Bacon" Public Debate featuring Dr. Kees Scheepens - Part I, Part II & Part III

(Generously sponsored by the World Society for the Protection of Animals, the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals and Farmed Animal Rights Manitoba)

 

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Whistleblowers

Farm animals today are hidden away from public view. Often, it's those working within the facilities who must be their voice. To report cruelty to farm animals, please contact us. We will protect your identity and investigate your concerns.







Current Investigation:
Canadian Food Inspection Agency records indicate that more than 2 million birds arrive at the slaughterhouse dead every year. Our most recent report entitled Broken Wings: The Breakdown of Animal Protection in the Transportation and Slaughter of Meat Poultry in Canada, documents why.
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Current Campaign:
Every day in slaughterhouses across Canada, chickens and turkeys are being killed inhumanely and illegally. In October, representatives from CETFA were invited to tour a poultry slaughterhouse in The Netherlands that had converted from the electrified bath method of stunning poultry to controlled atmosphere killing.
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Watch Global National's Documentary

REVEALED: No Country for Animals


Karen Pinker, noted producer and director with 90th Parallel Productions, and her crew joined CETFA investigators while on investigation from last summer to fall. They caught with their cameras exactly what our investigators see daily - government-sanctioned cruelty to farm animals in transport, on farms, collecting stations, auction houses and slaughterhouses. They then travelled to Europe to see that livestock agriculture doesn't have to be this way.

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WHAT YOU CAN DO

As the Global National documentary REVEALED: No Country for Animals showed, Canadian authorities fail to protect farm animals from cruelty. Demand that they do.

  1. Click here to send a pre-written letter to your MP asking that they hold the Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) to account for its failure to uphold federal animal welfare regulations.

  2. Write and send an email to Auditor General Sheila Fraser (communications@oag-bvg.gc.ca) asking that she conduct a review on CFIA's performance enforcing Canadian laws and regulations on the transport and slaughter of farm animals.

  3. Help push for better transport regulations by printing off and filling out the petition created by our friends at the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals available here.

 


Food Facts


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Long-Distance Transport: One Cruel Ride
Bill C-468 would decrease maximum transport times for farm animals to be in line with those of other industrialized nations. Currently, Canada's legislation allows animals such as pigs, chickens and horses to be transported for up to 36 hours with no food, water or rest break. Animals like cattle, sheep and goats may be transported up to 52 hours without food, water or a break and may be left for a staggering 81 hours without food.

WHAT YOU CAN DO

Help push for better transport regulations by printing off and filling out the petition created by our friends at the Canadian Coalition for Farm Animals available here.

 

 

Stop the Live-Burnings!

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2007 - 3,700 burned alive

2008 - 30,500 burned alive

2009 - 51,900 burned alive

2010 (to June) - 110,666 burned alive

 

May 24, 2010

Watch footage from ProVista Barn Fire in Zhoda, Manitoba as shown on CBC (7:50-10:20). Conditional Use Permits from an expansion on the site indicate that 1,600 sows were present. At average farrow size times 2.5 litters/yr the barn would've held 17,000 pigs at the time of the fire. Those who investigated the fire believe this number to be accurate yet the Fire Commissioner's office reports 6,500 pigs killed.


WHAT YOU CAN DO

Please contact The Hon. Jennifer Howard, Manitoba Minister of Labour and Immigration (minlab@leg.mb.ca) and ask her to protect these animals by ensuring smoke alarms and sprinkler systems are retrofitted into existing hog barns, where risk of fire is greatest.

Revealed: No Country for Animals

July 28, 2010 at 10 pm


Karen Pinter, noted producer and director with 90th Parallel Productions, and her crew joined CETFA investigators while on investigation from last summer to fall. They caught with their cameras exactly what our investigators see daily - government-sanctioned cruelty to farm animals in transport, on farms, collecting stations, auction houses and slaughterhouses. They then travelled to Europe to see that livestock agriculture doesn't have to be this way.
Make sure you tune in!

Teaser video clips below!

 

 


 

 

SHOCKING FACT

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Photo courtesy Animals' Angels      Ripped off chicken foot               Retrieved chicken foot

shot by Twyla Francois Oct, 2006          June 19, 2009                           June 26, 2009

 

FEET RIPPED OFF LIVE, CONSCIOUS CHICKENS AT MAPLE LEAF


Maple Leaf's fatal listeriosis outbreak in 2008, which killed at least 22 people, seems to have had little impact on practices at the company's slaughterhouses.Read More...