About Us - Animal Justice
WEBAnimal Justice is Canada’s only national animal law advocacy organization. We believe that animals need lawyers, and our legal team works to protect animals from cruelty and neglect. Canada has some of the worst animal protection laws in the Western world, and our mission is to overhaul the legal system to better reflect our country’s ...
Animal Experiments in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBProgress Against Animal Testing for Cosmetics & Toxicity. In 2023, Canada passed two groundbreaking laws to protect animals used for research. The first is legislation aimed at phasing out the use of animals in toxicity tests.Toxicity tests are used to test chemicals to see whether they are harmful to the environment or human health, and many of these tests fall into the cruellest and most ...
Animals on Farms in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBFarmed animals in Canada suffer on a scale that is difficult to imagine. In 2022, over 841 million land animals were killed for food in Canadian slaughterhouses.The total number is unquestionably higher, because government statistics don’t include the millions of animals who die in transport en route to slaughter each year––or who arrive so sick or injured that they must be killed upon ...
Crisis of Cruelty in Canada’s Zoos - Animal Justice
WEBNov 5, 2022 · Crisis of Cruelty in Canada’s Zoos. By Animal Justice. November 5, 2022. X. Animal Justice is releasing the largest investigation of zoos that has ever been undertaken in Canada. We visited nearly every zoo in Ontario—the roadside zoo capital of the country. Our video footage reveals widespread suffering, injuries, death, and troubling ...
Canada’s Puppy Mill Problem - Animal Justice
WEBHow to Report a Puppy Mill. In the face of poor laws and little enforcement, it’s up to each of us to speak out if we learn of a puppy mill in our community. In Ontario, reports of an animal in distress or being abused can be made to the Ontario Animal Protection Call Centre at 1-833-9-ANIMAL (264625).
#16: NFACC’s Codes of Practice for Farmed Animals
WEBAug 31, 2018 · Camille and Peter tackle one of the most important issues in Canadian animal law: the National Farm Animal Care Council (NFACC), and the codes of practice it publishes for the treatment of farmed animals. Shockingly, animal welfare on farms is almost completely unregulated in Canada. Instead, the government lets the farm industry-dominated NFACC develop voluntary, unenforceable "standards" for ...
Canada Goose Forced to Stop Killing Coyotes for Fur Trim
WEBApr 22, 2020 · X. TORONTO – Luxury jacket company Canada Goose today announced that it would begin to stop using new fur on its coyote fur-trimmed parkas starting in 2022. Instead, the company says it will implement a consumer buy-back program for fur, and use this “reclaimed” fur instead. National animal law advocacy organization Animal Justice is ...
Fighting Canada's Dangerous "Ag Gag" Laws - Animal Justice
WEBAlberta. Alberta has the unenviable title of being home to Canada’s first ag gag law. The Trespass Statutes (Protecting Law-Abiding Property Owners) Amendment Act amended several existing laws. Most notably, it seeks to silence employee whistleblowers by prohibiting entry onto agricultural property under “false pretences,” punishable by up to six months in jail as well as a fine of up to ...
Legal Protections for Pets in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBMore Ways To Give. Choose Amount. $15. $35. $100. or. It’s easy to imagine that companion animals such as cats, dogs, rabbits, and the other animals we keep as pets, have strong legal protections against cruelty and neglect in Canada. Unfortunately, this is often not the case.
Zoos, Aquariums, and Circuses in Canada - Animal Justice
WEBIn 2022, Animal Justice conducted the largest-ever investigation of Canadian zoos, revealing widespread suffering, injuries, death, and troubling threats to public safety. In 2018, Sault Ste. Marie became the first Canadian municipality to ban keeping animals in zoos. More than two dozen municipalities in Canada, plus the entire province of ...