Canadian border crossings do not provide dedicated lanes for livestock trailers; they are forced to sit stationary in line with all other trailers. As our trailers do not have forced ventilation, the temperature and ammonia levels rise dramatically.

While the video recommends that if you must buy eggs to buy only those from free-range or free-run hens, there are NO labeling laws in Canada and companies can list whatever they want on their egg cartons.

Many companies take advantage of this and simply have 1 barn of free-run hens while the others are all hens in battery cages. Therefore, CETFA can recommend only one label that we are certain is truly from free-run hens: BC SPCA-certified (http://www.spca.bc.ca/welfare/farm-animal-welfare/spca-certified/).

August 2009 - In the last 20 months, nearly 80,000 animals have burned alive in barn fires in Manitoba and Alberta.

Video shows how 95% of sows live in Canada - confined their entire adult lives to gestation crates barely larger than themselves.

Millions of piglets are killed inhumanely by PACing (Pounding Against Conrete) each year in Canada.

Video shows the body condition of the average milking cow at the end of her milking life (at a shockingly young age - less than 3 years old)

Millions of chickens and turkeys arrive at slaughterhouses dead every year in Canada. This video shows why.

Birds that end up with the Granny's Poultry label often start with large patches of feathers missing, bloody rears and tails and caked in feces. These birds are chased and aggressively grabbed by untrained catchers, crammed into cages for transportation without the ability to stand, left fully exposed to extreme cold weather (-40C to -50C), and are live-hung, upside-down by their feet before being slaughtered.

Footage shot at Lilydale poultry slaughterhouse in Abbotsford, BC shows turkeys being live-hung, upside-down by their feet. Injuries from live-hanging include fractured hips and legs, hip dislocation, detached femurs and hemorrhaging.

Natural Valley Farms, later renamed Natural Meat Company, slaughtered over 100,000 Canadian and American horses from 2007-2009. The plant was closed mid-February, 2009 for animal welfare violations, environmental degradation and food safety concerns.

Video documents condition of the average egg-laying hen in Canada at the end of her prime reproductive life who has spent her life nearly immobilized in a battery cage.

Marlene and Natalie are 2 chicks rescued by CETFA inspectors, spared from a life of intensive confinement to a battery cage.