Farm Animals

In terms of sheer numbers, farm animal welfare is the biggest animal welfare problem in the world today. Billions of farm animals are reared behind closed doors of factory farms. Frequently confined in the name of efficiency to cages and stalls, they are forced to grow super-fast, and pushed to their physical limits in the quest for more meat, milk or eggs. At the end of their short lives, millions of farm animals are transported over long distances in poor conditions, simply to be slaughtered at the journey's end.

Factory Farming

Caged, intensively farmed egg-laying chickens
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The majority of the world's farm animals currently live in miserable factory conditions, raised using 'production line' methods. High output is the primary goal and is achieved by subjecting the animals to intense and prolonged suffering.

They live short, barren lives, spent in cages, crates, overcrowded sheds and narrow stalls. There is no guarantee of a humane death.

WSPA is working to end factory farming by raising awareness, establishing local coalitions and promoting and demonstrating humane alternatives.

You can help end factory farming too by eating better, safer and kinder. Supporting WSPA's campaign to stop factory farming with a donation will help put an end to the shocking cruelty suffered by billions of farm animals worldwide.

Long Distance Transport

Canada's allowable transport times are among the longest in the developed world despite the fact that Canadians want farm animals to be treated more humanely.
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Canada allows farm animals to be transported on long, gruelling journeys without food, water and rest. Hungry and thirsty, crammed into overcrowded trucks, forced to lie or stand in their excrement in extreme temperatures - the suffering is immense. The fact that millions of animals arrive at slaughterhouses dead, diseased and injured shouldn’t surprise us.

For nearly a decade, Canada’s Agriculture Minister has been reviewing whether to amend the regulations on how farm animals are transported across the country. These regulations haven’t been updated in more than a quarter of a century. With nearly 600 million animals being transported to slaughter every year, we can’t wait for a decision. We need your help to achieve stronger regulations.

Please ask the Minister of Agriculture, Gerry Ritz to stop the long distance transport of animals and strengthen the regulations under the Health of Animals Act to ensure farm animals are treated more humanely.

WSPA is a member of the Handle with Care Coalition to Stop the Long Distance Transport of Animals for Slaughter on a global level. We need public support behind this initiative in order to be successful. Find out more about the global campaign.