Kaitlyn Mitchell
Kaitlyn Mitchell is a lawyer with Animal Justice Canada, Canada’s leading national animal law charity.
Dec. 16 has come and gone, and yet a bill to ban the export of horses for slaughter overseas continues to languish in the Senate.
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.