Private member’s bill uses biosecurity and infectious diseases as a smokescreen

Rather than passing an ag gag law to reduce transparency and target compassionate citizens who document animal suffering, Parliamentarians should focus on the real threat: the harmful underbelly of an industry lacking oversight of both biosecurity practices and the treatment of farmed animals.

On the rare occasions when concerned citizens have entered facilities without permission, they have documented horrific animal suffering, write Jan Hajek and Kaitlyn Mitchell. Photograph courtesy of Wilson Hui via Flickr

Opinion

BY JAN HAJEK, KAITLYN MITCHELL

October 18, 2023

A dangerous private member’s bill has passed through committee and is headed for its third reading in the House. Going into the study, conducted by the House Committee on Agriculture and Agri-Food, Liberal MP Francis Drouin suggested that

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