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//LIVESTOCK WELFARE
 Animal
welfare and meat processing might sound somewhat cynical to the layman
and if
we are to believe the animal rights hype it is impossible to combine
the two
aspects.
Raising animals as source of food does not imply that it is cruel or
that we take
shortcuts in the care and welfare of livestock. Regardless for what
purpose we keep animals it is our
moral and
ethical duty to treat them well and give them the best possible care.
 Besides
moral and ethics it also makes good business sense to treat animals
well and provide them with wholesome natural feed, shelter and places
to roam freely. A
well cared for animal is a healthy and stress free animal that yields a
exellent meat
quality.
Canada
is among the leading counties in farm animal welfare.
 Canada's
"Farm Animal Welfare
Infrastructure" is a network of responsible organizations within Canada
to
address animal welfare issues. The broad spectrum of farm animal
welfare issues
includes intensive livestock farming practices, humane transportation,
humane
slaughter, biotechnology, and others.
Summary
of Canada's Legislative and Voluntary
Animal Welfare Standards
Humane
Transportation of All
Animals in Canada
Name
of Act: Health
of Animals Act
(Federal)
The
Health
of Animals
Regulations Part XII defines
conditions for the humane
transportation of
all animals in Canada by all modes of transport. These regulations:
- prohibit
overcrowding, transportation of incompatible animals in the same stall,
transportation of animals unfit to travel; and;
- specify
appropriate conditions for loading and unloading of animals, adequate
feeding
and watering regimes, maximum transit times, minimum rest periods,
bedding
requirements and states that animals that become compromised while in
transit
must not be transported beyond the closest area where they can receive
proper
medical care.
The
Canadian
Food Inspection
Agency enforces the regulations through routine inspections,
unannounced site
inspections and response to reports of non-compliance.
Humane
Handling and Slaughter of
Food Animals
Name
of Act: Meat
Inspection Act
(Federal)
Sections
61
to 80 of the Meat
Inspection Regulations set
standards for the humane handling
and slaughter
of food animals in federally inspected slaughter facilities. Canadian
Food
Inspection Agency inspectors stationed at every federally registered
slaughter
establishment monitor the handling and slaughter of food animals.
Prevention
of
Cruelty to Animals
Name
of Act: Criminal
Code of Canada
(Federal)
Section
446
of the federal Criminal
Code prohibits anyone from
wilfully causing animals to
suffer from
neglect, pain, or injury. The Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to
Animals
or police officers investigate complaints of noncompliance.
Recommended
Codes of Practice
for the Care and Handling of Farm Animals
Recommendations
for farm animal
welfare are contained in the National Recommended Codes of Practice for
the
Care and Handling of Farm Animals. The development of these codes was
originally coordinated by the Canadian Federation of Humane Societies
and prior
to 1995 they were published by Agriculture Canada. From 1995 to 2004
the codes
were coordinated and published by the Canadian Agri-Food Research
Council
(disbanded in 2006). In 2006 the National Farm Animal Care Council took
on the
responsibility for the codes. The codes are reviewed by committees of
producers, veterinarians, transporters, researchers, processors,
government
regulators, and representatives of animal care and welfare
organizations. The
codes provide humane care and handling standards for farm animals
during all
life stages, from the place of origin through to slaughter.
Recommended
codes of practice
have been produced for pullets, layers, and spent fowl, chickens,
turkeys and
breeders, ranched mink, ranched fox, dairy cattle, beef cattle, pigs,
sheep,
farmed deer, veal calves, goat, bison, and horses.
External
links on the subject
covered here.
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